>>252538
Good luck! It's not impossible or anything, just realize that you'll probably need to plan ahead for opening classes for income. KB pay is not great.

>>252539
Thank you! And I heard that, I could also do boxing, but I love kickboxing much more. Did it a few years when I was 18, but stopped to focus on education etc., biggest mistake of my life lol because it got me nowhere except older. I also heard that connections are pretty important, but my old trainer is a friend of the father of my friend, and he knows all the guys in the country, even the ones who teach the police and stuff. But he is one greedy and slimy mfer, and from the events where I have been, it seems like 90% of promoters and gym trainers are like that, which is honestly one of the parts I look the least forward to, but that's life. Only thing I can do about it is start my own promotion one day and ensure its cool

>>252538
Just train. If you're ready to fight, you'll know. If you aren't cut out for it, you'll know.

>>252552
Sadly where I live is like a wasteland for boxing gyms, but I got some thing and enough space to train at home and my best friend is also the best friends of a few ex pro kickboxers, but they are all older now and work dayjobs and have families, so I can't depend on them too much, but they can gauge how ready I am at least and maybe work their connections a bit to hook me up with an organization, I heard lots of the organizations at beginner level are pretty cutthroat and get you nowhere

>>252538

It really depends on your fight IQ and talent. The UFC institute literally studies the average decline of fighters and it's typically 34, that's when you slow down reflexes wise, or recovery wise. So that is 9 years which is a long career. The only catch is this brother If you believe in yourself don't hesitate and waste any more time.

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>>252538
Bumping to ask an equally dumbass question. Which is worse: a 30yo. amateur boxer or a 30yo. amateur mma fighter? Both want to compete on either a national or global (amateur) level by the age of 30 while having started actual, consistent martial arts training from 26. No intentions for pro fights or really training seriously beyond the age of 30-32. How much of a fucking autistic dipshit am I?

do you have a background in anything? the regional MMA scene is pretty hit or miss, whereas people have been boxing since childhood (actual sport). If you can train 2-3 martial arts a week without injuring yourself
(probably just BJJ, Kickboxing) then it's probably achievable. Check what national tournaments there are.

>>257390
you'll probably lose to some gen alpha kid either way though

>>257270
Mma somehow is worse and better at the same time. Because of the variety you can get away with a lot of BS and defeat guys who would be able to beat you if it was a more focused fighting sport like kickboxing. Just rock-paper-scissors your way to the top

>>255126
Source?

Just do it fag cya at the top

Quick question: I am currently doing an education as VFX artist, should I scratch that? It would seem good to have since almost every fighter you see talks about how they had to do fifty side hustles and twenty jobs to make ends meet for the first half of their fighting career

>>252538
Why do you want to be a kickboxing career lmfao how dumb and influenced can you get

>>265220
Wdym influenced? Boxing is too flashy and corrupt and wrestling is too gay so kickboxing it is

>>265410
Have you been punched in the head so hard you have a headache for a week?
Have you been payed less than a McDonald's worker ?

Have you got a dirty toe in your eyeballs causing you to go blind?

Just because you saw le heckin muay Thai on YouTube. What a slave

Not going to happen. First of all, purely on a technical skill level you're not going to be able to compete. You'd be going up against guys that have been training since they were 15 AND have a certain amount of talent. I've trained with guys that have gotten their asses beat in B-tier promotions but ran circles around everybody in the gym. The discrepancy between a skilled hobbyist and a journey man is as big as the discrepancy between a journeyman and pro fighter, and then there's a similar gulf between a pro fighter and the true elite top 20 in the world.
You can't even begin to comprehend the skill gap you would need to cross to get to that level starting from 0. Maybe if you're a one in a million generational talent and trained extremely hard for the next 5 years you could get there, but there's a 99.99% chance you're not that guy.

Even putting all of that aside, if you've never trained before you don't even know if you can even do the work. Maybe you really don't like getting hit in the head, maybe you don't like hitting others in the head, maybe you hate training, maybe you hate cardio, maybe you punch like a bag of feathers and have poor athleticism in general, and so on. People watch videos on youtube and get all these fantasy thoughts about what it would be like to train, and then all of that goes out the window after you get kicked in the liver for the first time and vow to never experience that again.

>>265619
Im not starting from zero though, I trained for a few years when I was 18

>>265661
It’s not happening. Elite athletes start out as kids. Your reflexes will never reach the required speed. You are delusional to think that a couple of years of training at 18 to 20, somehow makes up for the competition that started at 12 and never stopped. Even low tier amateurs of your own age will beat you to a pulp.
Keep at it as a sport that you enjoy for fitness and recreational purposes. You will never be a professional fighter, even if and that’s a big if, you had any talent above average the time has come and gone for that. Try to find something else that you’re good at and can have as a career instead. This fantasy will only give you concussions.

>>265661
Okay, then you're 8 years behind instead of 10. Still doesn't matter. Again, like I said, you can't imagine the gap there is between an amateur that's been training for a couple years and even a middling journeyman, let alone a world-class contender. If you really want to fight, go train and have your coach set you up with other amateurs around your skill level.

>>265619
nah I'd win

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>>252538
Kickboxing is a dying sport unless you’re doing it for passion.
Like fighting for bahts in Thailand .
Japan , China and holland are the biggest stages for kickboxing but the money is nothing compared to mma and boxing.

Start get active , have fun, if it’s a talent then go for it.
Otherwise if ultimately you want the most money as possible for competition then it’s mma or boxing.
For now start with what you want and see what you naturally lean to or like.

You are screwed, I knew a guy from high school who started when he was 23. Went 0-2 and retired and is now trying to be a firefighter.

Just think about it. Everyone you will face will have started since they were a minor and they will have a DECADE of experience more than you.

>>266396
0-2 pro or amateur?