No but I wont put someone down for having ambition amd trying.

My motto in life is if you dont ask you dont get. Or, if you never try, you never know.

If you start anything with realistic small goals, when you reach them it gives you pride and encouragement to go further. If he doesnt even try because he listened to some poeple whove never even boxed competatively or stepped foot in a ring to spar then dont you think that would be a shame? If he has to learn the hard way then so be it but thats how we all learn, from our mistakes.