Boxing pain vs. Football pain?

Question

In football I feel great when I knock someone back or down. this is when I played a few years ago in high school, i was the smallest starter in height and weight in my league, only one player was shorter but weighed more. In boxing they set you up in the same weight classes. I need a challenge. But when I fight someone that I tear up, I feel like stopping and asking the ref or trainer to stop the fight because I already showed that I won in that moment he can't keep up with my training. My point is, in football I feel great cause I'm beating someone physically larger, in boxing I'm beating someone at the same height and weight. Any advice on how to look at this from a different prespective?

one idea i just thought of is that I can keep training my *** off and work to face the best fighters at my size and that will take care of this idea that I can't be challenged in boxing. I know its there. but i thought its worth the question/conversation.

Answer 1

It's cool to be confident in your ability, but to get to the point where you may think you're invincible is where you set yourself up for a huge downfall. When a person thinks he/she is invincible, then he/she may lose sight of the things that made him/her successful. That false sense of invincibility can possibly cause you make flaws in your playing style or fight plan, since you'll possibly go into a situation not clearly thinking you're committing the the flaw(s) that someone else would take advantage over.

No one is perfect. There is someone always better you than. If anyone manages to go through a career in sports or any other competitive activity flawless, then he/she was simply lucky enough to stop before running across that better person(s).

Answer 2

I wouldn't be getting too cocky too soon pal! When u start feeling comfortable in Boxing, that's when you get hurt! There is ALWAYS someone out there to can take you out and hurt you doing it! Football will be the same way if you don't take yourself down a few pegs! It's good to be confident but don't be thinking that you can take everyone!

Answer 3

in football theres lames that go divin head first for the knees so they can take someone out their career, thinking its tough........ nothing like that happens in boxing