Boxing

I now have a bit of cranial neuropathy. Probably from getting diabetic but maybe also a bit from my years of backyard boxing - so long ago. Without headgear and often crappy gloves.
Took a lot more head-shots when I was younger. Just shook it off. We were manly guys - a part of boxing!

My head feels like something is now bubbly like soft drink under the skull.
Not unpleasant but weird.
Never would have thought of this.

You know the brain shuts down to protect itself. If it did ny we could all be punch drunk right now... I just like to idea of falling flat on my face and with another fighter standing over the with a sadistic smile that says I win. I get up and try again... Pow knocked down again. I will keep going down and getting up because I obviously enjoy what Is happening uo me. Above everything you should enjoy being a fighter..

Dies anyone think knockrd a scary situation.
I go with the flow and understand the importance of this in the sport of boxing. It is a what happens. We hurt occasionally and we get our bells rung. If you are really a fighter you understand that knock out happens. I do not know fear this. In a couple of minutes you awake and I bet you go back needing to get put out again. At least now you still officially a punch pig.

Good story STUD. I wish I was there with you men.

Almost 40 years ago, I was knocked out in an apartment bout.
We were in 16oz but cheapy consumer-grade Everlast gloves.
Like the aftermath of being in a car-wreck for 30 seconds after I was hit.
The “huh, what the fuck?!?!” moment. Like my brain had skipped over something.
I luckily landed on the edge of a sofa, not the linoleum-covered concrete slab floor.
We were testosterone-fueled young guys - not gym-trained athletes.
Should have had some ammonia first aid popper things - to help snap somebody awake.
I also vowed not to buy cheap gloves again - after that incident.

I had previously had the wind knocked out of me - with other sparring partners 3 or 4 times. We all have had it happen.
Bad defense on my part in those reactions.
Like when you are a kid and have the wind knocked out of you the first time - then you know that you are NOT going to die.

Bit my tongue and inside of the mouth cheek several times in backyard and apartment sparring. My partners and I were stupid about not needing mouthguards.

A few years before - a guy claimed that I had knocked him out in another apartment sparring session.
Still think that he wasn’t. He was on the floor too long. I would have called 911 if he started not reacting.
We were in pairs of some of the most thickly padded pro training gloves that I owned.
So I CAN say that I knocked another guy out but I don’t believe it!

the gloves are important, which is why I use the old school vintage leather boxing gloves, soften, more erotic, great for punch fucking!

What’s it like getting KOd? Is it scary?

I've been TKO'd (fight stopped) and also had a flash knockdown. The flash knockdown happened when I walked into a well-timed punch. Next thing I knew I was sitting on my arse on the canvas, thinking "How did I get here?" I think my sparring partner was more worried than I was. I got up and finished sparring. At another session with the same opponent some time later, I got him into a corner and worked him hard, so it evened out in the end, even if he didn't go down.
So I'd say the experience was a bit odd, even surreal, but not scary or even painful. I couldn't tell you now where the impact even was.
The TKO was at the hands of my husband, in the early days when I was still finding my way around the ring. He saw I couldn't take any more and backed off.
I've also had to take an enforced pause at times to recover in sparring sessions when opponents have hit an area close to the sweet spot above the liver. If the punch was harder and on the spot, I'd've been writhing on the canvas in agony, conscious but well and truly KO'd.
All these experiences haven't really been scary for me, although I've probably been lucky. They definitely have impressed upon me the need for a tight defence as well as the reality that boxing has its risks.

Thanks, Aussie.
You guys have had far more real ring time - not backyard or apartment bouts like I used to spar in.
Knowing when to stop, knowing when to take care of someone will always be paramount.
And let you live to box another day.

Yeah, I've been lucky in the sense that I've always sparred with good guys who know how to spar, e.g. punch hard, but don't try to KO someone who isn't in your league. Any decent boxing gym monitors sparring sessions in this way.
Sparring guys who could have KO'd me but stopped short of that has really helped me develop as a boxer. You get a clear message that you need to work on this or that aspect of your defence or ringcraft without being put out of action.
Ideally, both guys go in to a sparring session or a "recreational boxing" match with the intent to have a good, hard contest and really test each other. If a KO happens, it happens, but they don't go in there looking for the KO above all else.

Thank you for the insight! I’m glad to see after all this you still have that fighting spirit!

Ya you are young and need some men to be around for you when you have questions and concerns. I am usually here and will be around to guide you through your experiences into combat sports. Remember it is combat and we are talking about war in certain ways.