Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
I'm in an odd situation.

A friend has been training with me for 3 weeks now.
In that time I've helped him shed a half stone and he's feeling very fit and strong, so I am delighted.
He's also agreed to have a White Collar fight on a card that I am helping to organise, so I've had him spar me and some others.
When sparring me he has no problems, I'm not really a pressure fighter and I step back a lot so he had breathing space. He's not nervous when he's in there with me so that also helps.

But last night in sparring we did spar a pressure fighter.
Matt was doing fairly well apart from constantly ducking for his knees when flurries came his way (keep in mind this was light sparring)
Toward the end of his second round he did the same, ducked low and took what I would deem a sharp tap to the temple.

He was wearing a Top ten headgear and went down, leaning over the bottom rope, identically to Jersey Joe against Marciano.
I thought fatigue had played its part, but he insisted he was dazed.

I really don't know what to think of this.
Should I allow him to fight?
I've been working defense with him for a few weeks and he hasn't really been jarred before this.
Why would he go down so heavily telling me "the ropes were spinning" from such a pulled shot?
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Did i read this right, your friend has been training for 3 weeks and you are gonna allow him to fight. To answer your question there is no way you should allow him to fight after 3 weeks of training. I cant beleive you are even considering putting him in. From what you have expained about your friend he doesnt sound like he is ready to have a fight if he is taking a knee during light sparring, that shits embarrasing.