Is 24 too old to start boxing?

[jon09]

Lawrence Clay Bey was in his late twenties when he started and he had moderate success and rattled the future heavyweight champion Vlad Klit in the amateurs. If it is something you truly want to do then give it your all and don't let nobodies negative talk bring you down. Good luck champ

[Aussie_Egg]

Im hopefully having my first fight in april im 26 and only started when i was 25.
I just thought why not have a crack rather than grow old wondering what could have been.
Everybody needs to challenge themselves one way or another this is mine

[HattonTheHammer]

im 25 and have just retaken up the sport

Nothing serious im not even sparring as of yet and i still have issues surrounding my lifestyle around my training.

But im not looking to make money out of it. I do it because i love the sport dearly and its the only physical activity i genuinely take any interest in.

go for it dude, if you dont you`ll always wonder what if!!

[The Fightfan]

Sure why not. I am still on and off the fence at 26.I've fought in the amatuers but not the pros yet. But someday I will. Oh yeah to add to fighters starting late. B-Hop's name pops up he was I believe 24 when he fought his first fight.

[DaxxKahn]

Have some amateur bouts locally first, you can fight as an amateur until 39 I believe....If it goes well you will know after 5 or 6 fights if it's for you...

The only thing I wonder about is you mentioned you trained MMA so what kind of bad habits did you pick up there? Not saying MMA is a bad thing just it is very different in the striking terms and at 24 it is hard to change physical habits learned....EG- Dirty boxing and traditional boxing are worlds apart...

As for the flinching when about to or are being hit that goes away with time, the more you relax and get used to being in the ring the more you will become accustomed to the movement and will not be so gun shy...

But if your going to make a run at it I would say start soon if you are going to make a real try at it...If it is just for recreation then you can fight local now and again for who knows how long

[HattonTheHammer]

Have some amateur bouts locally first, you can fight as an amateur until 39 I believe....If it goes well you will know after 5 or 6 fights if it's for you...

The only thing I wonder about is you mentioned you trained MMA so what kind of bad habits did you pick up there? Not saying MMA is a bad thing just it is very different in the striking terms and at 24 it is hard to change physical habits learned....EG- Dirty boxing and traditional boxing are worlds apart...

As for the flinching when about to or are being hit that goes away with time, the more you relax and get used to being in the ring the more you will become accustomed to the movement and will not be so gun shy...

But if your going to make a run at it I would say start soon if you are going to make a real try at it...If it is just for recreation then you can fight local now and again for who knows how long

very good point there daxx

boxings a whole different ball game, you wont be allowed to hold and punch, throw rabbit punches or be allowed to use any kind of force with your stomach in the clench.

Boxing uses very conventional methods as opposed to mixed martial arts

[DaxxKahn]

Have some amateur bouts locally first, you can fight as an amateur until 39 I believe....If it goes well you will know after 5 or 6 fights if it's for you...

The only thing I wonder about is you mentioned you trained MMA so what kind of bad habits did you pick up there? Not saying MMA is a bad thing just it is very different in the striking terms and at 24 it is hard to change physical habits learned....EG- Dirty boxing and traditional boxing are worlds apart...

As for the flinching when about to or are being hit that goes away with time, the more you relax and get used to being in the ring the more you will become accustomed to the movement and will not be so gun shy...

But if your going to make a run at it I would say start soon if you are going to make a real try at it...If it is just for recreation then you can fight local now and again for who knows how long

very good point there daxx

boxings a whole different ball game, you wont be allowed to hold and punch, throw rabbit punches or be allowed to use any kind of force with your stomach in the clench.

Boxing uses very conventional methods as opposed to mixed martial arts

Hard thing to break...Even in boxing once you train a certain way for so long hard to change....

.Had a guy who was a kick boxer for abt 3 years and he took up boxing...Again good hands, nice head movement....Then in his first fight he gets caught with a hard straight right that wobbles him...So what does he do?

On instinct he throws a kick to the head with out thinking and knocks the other guy out cold and gets dq'd.....

[DaxxKahn]

Lawrence Clay Bey was in his late twenties when he started and he had moderate success and rattled the future heavyweight champion Vlad Klit in the amateurs. If it is something you truly want to do then give it your all and don't let nobodies negative talk bring you down. Good luck champ

I forgot about Clay-Bey yeah he had some talent and started late problem for him was after the amateurs he did not dedicate himself to training like he should have and by time he started to make some noise he started on the down slide as well...

I think Ron Lyle was like 29 when he started as a pro and he did fairly well in the greatest era of HW boxing...He was almost 55 when he finally retired for good


Though Clay-Bey and Lyle were Hwts a division where you can get away with being older