re: Fight of the Year. Warning: High testosterone on display

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You are mostly right, but I have seen a few. There are about one in a hundred who are just put together,

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My take too. I'm more than decent with my fists and by my mid teens I took to a gym to try my hand at amateur boxing. I stuck with it for a little over a year and won all 3 of the sanctioned fights I had by decision.

Unfortunately, for me, I have a congenital issue with my left shoulder that would cause it to dislocate from time to time while in training and that made me decide to stop before I did more damage than there already was.

Each time it came out of joint I'd have to take a few weeks off training to heal where all I could do was roadwork but no bag striking, sparring and shadowboxing. It takes all those elements to be in the kind of conditioning it requires to go 3 rounds in an amateur fight.

This is why I have the utmost respect for boxers that trained to go 15 rounds in championship fights in the days before it became 12 round championship fights.