Thanks guys. A little background information on me. I have been training for about 9 months now. I've been athletic and active my whole life (played baseball and basketball growing up and in highschool wrestled and bodybuilded). I got up to around 200lbs at 5'6 lean, from a powerlifting and bodybuilding type of routine. It was for bodybuilding competition. I needed a new hobby/lifestyle and then took up boxing. I dropped the weights and just started running a lot to lose some of the mass.
Now I am boxing and am around 155-160 lbs. I still have some mass left to lose. And not to sound like I am tooting my own horn, but I am extremely explosive and quick (at 5'6 I can almost dunk a basketball, my vertical is extremely high, definitely high 30's). Although I am short, (5'6) it is not so bad because I have very long arms for my height. I am just learning how to use it properly. I haven't had any matches yet, I am training hard before diving right in.