3 long months, I've dedicated to this fight. Sacrificed the junk food, the late nights, the outings. Showed up in the boxing gym on days I felt like shit. I disciplined myself with the goal of becoming the best boxer on Guam. Eventually, that goal manifested itself as my first amateur fight. I had only one intention coming into this fight; and that is to knock this mf out. Waiting for the fight to start was probably the worst part about this whole thing. That anticipation was killing me. But as time passed, it was finally my turn to enter the ring. The lights, the crowd, the rush. Being in the spotlight made me feel powerful. "I'm gonna knock this kid out", was my mindset. Once the match starts, I throw the first punch. [Here's the video of the full fight]. By the end of the fight, I did not get the knockout. The match ended in a draw as winning is not based by points but by knockout. No knockout, no win. It was a tough fight. I got rocked multiple times; Everything started to feel heavy. As the rounds went on, it felt like an anvil was chained to my body, trying to force me to go down. But I didn't go down once. --------------------------------- My coach and my tribe were very proud of my performance. Sure, I kind of felt bad that I didn't get the knockout. There were a lot of things I could have done better, but I can confidently say I performed well for my first fight. After the fight, I had a bunch of random people come up and praised me saying it was good fight. Even after 2 weeks have passed since the fight, I still get random people recognizing me from this fight. I am definitely not done with boxing. The next chapter of my life is going to have boxing in it. Before I started this journey, becoming the best boxer on Guam kind of sounded a little far-fetched. Now, I can clearly see it within my grasp. I feel like I've completed a purpose layer and moving on to doing more masculine shit.

Everytime i look back at my sparring video’s i look so sloppy. And am having trouble with landing shots and am scared to let my hand go on a medium range because am never landing them annyway and i have short arms. What can i do to fix this

I'm pretty excited to get in the ring and have my first fight. Lately, I've been working on keeping distance and employing more long-guard techniques. I think I have pretty solid offense, speed, power, and all that for my first fight. My biggest weakness that I want to brush up on is my defense, especially my rear-hand defense. I would like to keep my opponent at range as a longer fighter, but sometimes they catch me with a good hook around my long guard. I think using more rear hand defense like parries, and lead hand defense like lifts will level up my game. And of course the most important and best defense, feet movement. I tend to get heavy footed, especially when I want to attack / late in the rounds. Attached is a sparring video that I had recently, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

I did some sparring recently and would like a little review if you can. Here are some flaws that I think I have; 1. Admiring my work; not moving after landing shots. 2. Keeping head in the same place for too long. 3. Not getting different angles. 4. Bringing hands back too slow. 5. Hands drop mid-combos. The sparring video for review is on my YouTube at 24:25. I am the one w/ the black headgear. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Going to have my first fight on April 25th, which is less than 2 months from now. I've been a self-taught boxer for about 2 years, and have been going to a boxing gym for 2 months. I am a 5'9'' southpaw boxer going to compete at around 155-160lbs. I would like my style to be like a pressure fighter w/ power shots and that sort of thing. My questions include: 1. Tips to land clean power shots. 2. How to prepare for your first fight. 3. How to apply pressure while remaining defensively responsible. If you need footage of me boxing to give better advice, let me know, I post my progress on YT.