Why do you want to be like Ali? Are you built like him, do you have the same physical attributes, size and speed that he had? Do you feel comfortable getting hit are you conditioned well enough that you could hang on the ropes like he did for round upon round and then be able to knock your opponents out towards the end of the fight? If you start boxing as an amature that's not going to work since fights are only three rounds. Every guy I know that starts boxing wants to be Ali or Joe Frazier or some other great boxer of the past. I know a guy who's 5'5 and weights 180 pounds and he's telling me he want's to box like Ali and Roy Jones Jr. combine. First of all if you're only 5'5 and weigh 180 pounds why the hell would you want to try and box like Ali that guy was well over six feet tall and he had a massive reach second at least Roy Jones Jr. is closer to his same weight but this guy is way to damn slow to ever be able to box the way Roy Jone Jr. does. I remeber another guy that game in the gym once and he kept dropping his left hand and keeping it down by his waist. In sparring every one started nailing the guy with the right hook and cross because he always had his left hand down. Then when my boxing coach told him to keep his hands up the guy says "but this is how Oscar De La Hoya does it I watched him he hold's his hands like this." Then my boxing coach said to the guy "yea that's right but you're not Oscar De La Hoya." The bottome line is the greastest boxers are good because they boxed the best way that suites their physical size, skills strenghts and weaknesses. You've got to start training first then figure out which parts of the game are you're strenghts and which parts of the game you have trouble with. Then you have to develop your self accordingly. AS you train you'll see where you are good and were you are not you'll figure out what you need to work on and what you have to do to develop YOUR BEST GAME.
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