Comments by "The Asian Jaywalker" (@theasianjaywalker4455) on "Oleksandr Usyk: The Ring Podcast | Retirement Plans u0026 Growing Up In Ukraine" video.

  1. Something in this I wish more coaches would take big notice of: "15 years old.. no, too late". This belief seems to come and go in fads but I still see coaches with this. By 15 its 'too late' because it's going to take a good 3 years before they would get to the higher amateur levels. the 15 year olds who started at 7 area already well on the way. Really, I've seen these 7 year olds who were indeed masters at age 15 and also 'burned out' and even lost interest in boxing, stalled and they didnt keep growing and improving past 16 years old. [in some cases I really hated seeing fathers and others push them and did NOT blame them for losing interest, not at all]. There is a very impressive long list of great fighters who started 15, 20, even 25 but I wouldn't even refer to the crazy exceptions (Ray Mercer, Toney, Hopkins, Marcianio) because you can still just stay with great amateurs (under-19s) who started at 14, 15, 16. btw, Usyks old friend Anthony Joshua: age 18. Olympic gold medal. not bad.
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