1 hour straight sparring

[AdamGB]

OK... read a bit more of this. No head guard?!

For an hour?!

Fuck even Pros spar with head guards... and they don't even compete with them.

Sorry but that it pretty fucking stupid. done purposfully and objectively you'd get something from it. But this just sounds like prolonged 'milling'

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

For an hour, a head-guard would probably be smart, although I didn't fight my long fight with one.

There are benefits, as Adam is stating. When I had my fight for one hour, it was exhausting and punishing. I was thoroughly whooped. Before that fight, I'd fought all my fights with a backpedaling stick and move way of fighting, similar to the way Ali would stick and move in the 1960's. I didn't know how to stay in front of a guy, keep my cool, and keep defensive while countering. It was in that fight that I first learned how to effectively cover up and whether the storm. It changed the way I fought forever, and for the better, as well.

It gives you confidence to know that you can go on longer than many people would think to be imaginable. I was never truly confident in my boxing ability until I took that beating.