I’m 23 is it to late to try and have a successful boxing career as a pro if I go pro at 25 or 26.

[Stallions212]

I’m 5’8 190 lbs I wanna fight at 147-155. I’m an X D1 football player is it to late?

[margaret thatcher]

have you ever boxed?

[Noxy]

No, not necessarily.

[Brute]

It depends more on yourability than your age. Rocky Marciano did not box seriously until he was in his 20s.

[gilgamesh]

It's not typical, but I mean it can be done. Nate Campbell went pretty damn far in spite of a late start to the sport. I wouldn't think he's the only one, but he's the first that comes to mind.

[Fray Bentos]

Is it too late for you to become a boxer? No

Have a 'successful' boxing career? What's that according to you? World title? National title? Winning record? Headline a card in your hometown? Be able to get the woman of your dreams? Have family, friends and strangers cheering your name? You will have to define 'successful' 95% of boxers aren't successful as in they don't win the world title, they can't retire once they are too old or too damaged to compete because they haven't made enough money, some if not a lot of professional boxers are permanently damaged from injuries sustained in the ring - small to major, a lot of professional boxers find the training regime too hard over any length of time - Billy Bessey wrote a great post regarding this when he stated he regretted turning pro after a successful amateur career.

Can you sell tickets to hundreds of people on a regular basis? Congratulations! A local promoter will be interested in you no matter how good or not-so-good you are and can build up a winning record... got no friends like me? You're fucked - you'll be going all over the place getting your head punched in off 'flying machines' who can sell tickets - plenty of talented boxers get nowhere as professionals because they can't sell tickets.

And 147 and around that weight must be the worst weight division to get ahead, loads of shit hot fighters at light/light welter/welterweight... you will have your work cut out getting to the top in any of those weight divisions no matter how good you are. Good luck!

[Fray Bentos]

Billy Walker told a tale in his autobiography about a black American heavyweight he would regulary spar with at Gleason's Gym in the early sixties when he went to New York to learn a few tricks as a young pro heavyweight and this black American kid was shit hot, big, fast, aggressive and Billy Walker and he became friends and Walker wanted to bring him back to the UK because he thought he had potential to do something big and the trainer at Gleason's laughed 'why waste your time, there are hundreds like him'

So I suppose it is all about who you know and who is backing you, not about how good you are.

[bennie]

Horace Notice didn't lace on a glove until he was 23. He won the ABA heavyweight title in 1983 and then British and Commonwealth titles as a pro. He was forced to retire, unbeaten, because of eye trouble.