Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory authority to guarantee the fighters' safety.
Things You Should Know
Use your free hand to punch your opponent. Aim for soft, painful areas, like the eyes, solar plexus, and groin. Once your opponent is immobile, run away. Defuse a fight by complimenting the other person or apologizing to them.
The allocation of psychophysiological resources to an action associated with anger, such as kicking or punching, can result in increased strength.
Try to remain calm.
If you start to get nervous, you will display body language and a tone of voice that conveys fear. It can be very difficult to stay calm in a fight, but it's important to remain calm if you want to appear confident. If at all possible, take a deep breath. This can calm you down.
The Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports lists the following minimum age requirements for boxing: 18 for US professional boxing.
The biggest thing to remember is not to jump in too early into professional fights. Some fighters who have been training since they were a child may turn pro with only 10 amateur fights, but in reality, it is recommended to have had at least 20 fights before turning into a professional fighter.
Furrowed eyebrows, tense lips, a protruding jaw, a clenched jaw, and bare teeth are just some clues to anger. Gestures, like flailing arms. Posture, like a protruding chest. Physiological responses, those which a person is largely unable to control when they're angry, such as sweating and a flushed face.
Most boxing enthusiasts have labeled the left hook as the most destructive punch in boxing.
Strike the Opponent's Weak Points
Face, toes, groin, stomach (solar plexus or diaphragm) and side of the neck are his weak parts while the heel of feet or hand, knee, fist, elbow and the top of the head are your strong parts. A hard punch on your opponent's nose, jaw or eyes might help to bring him down.
The higher the Newton (N) the greater the force or harder the punch. Punching forces in amateur boxing are around 2500 N. If you weigh 70 kg (11 stone or 154 lbs), you'll exert about 700 N of force on the ground just stood still. That makes punching force about 3.5 times body mass.
Weightlifting boosts punching power because people think more muscle means more power. Weightlifting increases muscle bulk, but striking power comes from speed, technique, and coordination. Boxing-specific training is necessary to boost punching power.
In fact, our testing results suggest that the lean muscle of the core is the biggest contributor to punch force – meaning the stronger your core, the harder your punch! Core strength also plays an important role in generating effective mass, this is known as the 'snap' of a punch.