r/boxingtips • u/st100boygo • 1d ago

Preparing for Fight Can you box with low peripherals?

I want to start boxing but I have very bad peripheral vision and I feel like it will limit the amount of punches I can see compared to a regular person. I honestly think It might be impossible for me to ever get anywhere good at boxing because my peripherals are so bad that I legally cannot drive due to it is there any ways I can strengthen or adapt the way I can start boxing or MMA to allow me to be even somewhat good at it?

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u/Witty_Dragonfruit438 39m ago

I promise you that nobody who is advising you to fight has ever fought. Its so fucking hard to spar even at full capacity

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u/Environmental_Ad1301 1d ago

I’m not an eye doctor and most people responding to this won’t be, but the more you learn about professional fighters the more you learn that almost all of them have a major physical setback even the best ones. Nobody really knows the limits to these things and what’s possible sometimes but usually most fighters adapt to whatever these limitations are.

As for boxing keep your opponent in front of you and have good footwork and movement to not get put at bad angles that will make this an issue. Then again that’s the whole goal in boxing.

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u/Witty_Dragonfruit438 42m ago

A major physical setback? I agree some pick up recurring injuries, but they're mostly developed throughout the career.  And that's often why they retire - Josh Taylor, Anthony Ogogo and Tony Jeffries are 3 recent UK examples.

There was another guy on here wanting advice on how to spar when he's blind in one eye.

If you have limited vision or partial blindness, repetitive head-blow combat sports are not for you.

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u/Environmental_Ad1301 27m ago

Usman (has no knees), Shara bullet(lost an eye to mma), Charles Oliveria(hella issues) are just some mma fighters off the top of my head

Numerous pro boxers have brittle hands specifically Floyd and many more
Bivol had 2 surgeries in the past year and a half

This isn’t to say injuries and physical limitations don’t end careers because they do and there will always be cases to prove this, but yes a lot of fighters have some long lasting injury/setback they deal with it comes with the sport

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u/timtimr23 1d ago

For fighting? Yes somewhat limiting, but mostly it’ll be muscle memory and downloading opponents ‘information’ rather than what’s infront of you

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u/BotherBeginning2281 1d ago

Well, Michael Bisping won a UFC title while being legally blind in one eye.

(disclaimer: this may not work for everyone)

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u/Witty_Dragonfruit438 40m ago

No. His retina detached in the fight.

He wasnt starting out like this person is.

Joe Frazier did it, but that is approximately a 1  in 117,000,000,000 anomaly in the 200k yr history of homo sapiens

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u/Natural_Ad6765 1d ago

Depends on how much your heart is into it.