honestly, if you already have the ''scared'' attitude then you're in for a shock. You wouldn't be sparring right away if you went to the gym, you'd work on technique and fundamentals and all that good stuff.. The trainer's won't let you spar until they're positive you can defend yourself in the ring. But you have to first get over the fact that you're going to get hit in the face, and it doesn't feel good haha. You'd be worked in slowly, first starting with light sparring, but if you are ''scared'' to get hit in the face then you're gonna have a lot of trouble gaining confidence.

On the other hand, we don't all go to the boxing gym to become world champs, and boxing is one of the best workouts. So if you just want to go there, and hit the bag and shadowbox and just use it more for exercise then it's never too late to do that.. but anything past that, you really can't be scared to get hit, it will mess up anything you have going for you, and im speaking from experience of feeling that way before i went to the gym.