Is it to late to attempt to go pro?

[BJJ Lover]

I am 24 years old . I have some past experience, trained for almost a year when I was 17, but stopped ever since when I went to college. Am I too old?

No.

If you want to be a world champion, you're at a disadvantage against guys who have been training martial arts since they were toddlers but overall you can still have a great career and get a lot out of it.

 

[shunyata]

You've only trained for a year at the most when you were 17 and haven't trained in 7 years yet you want to go pro? I don't want to be harsh but you shouldn't even be thinking about going pro right now. My advice to you as someone who has quite a lot of Ammy experience is You should be getting your ass in a gym, training your ass off, take a couple of amateur fights, see how you like it and how you do then go from there. Fight training isn't easy, it's fucking hard. Training to compete also takes away your social life, so you must be prepared for that as well. You're not too old to start training to go pro but you're pretty old at 24 to have next to no experience. Unless you're a physical specimen or are naturally talented you're going to have a hard time playing catch up and competing with guys that have years of experience on you.

TLDR: Find a gym, put a lot of time into the gym, get some ammy fights, see how you like it and if you like it, then consider thinking about going pro.

Nailed it.

If you're not actively training and have no amateur fights it is in fact TOO EARLY to go pro.

Get into the gym, get on the mats, talk to your coaches and see if you're ready for an amateur fight in a year or two.

 

[kintana]

I am 24 years old . I have some past experience, trained for almost a year when I was 17, but stopped ever since when I went to college. Am I too old?

No it is not. I met a guy in London who turned pro at 35 and had a respectable record of 5-2 for a 3 year span.

He even managed to fight in bellator once.

 

[Omni1]

I am 24 years old . I have some past experience, trained for almost a year when I was 17, but stopped ever since when I went to college. Am I too old?

I would examine your motivation for wanting to turn pro. If you want to make money then that's a very bad idea. UFC fighters barely make enough money to scrap by until they've been in the UFC for at least a couple of years. And if they get injured badly without insurance then they're screwed. Obviously fighting in the regional scene pays virtually nothing & if you get injured badly with no insurance then you're screwed. You're screwed bad. If it's a bucket list type of thing then I would say make sure that you have insurance just in case you get injured. No one thinks they are going to get injured but the reality is that it happens. You have to weigh the pros with the cons.

 

[Magrabie1988]

No it's not too late.

 

[gnarlysheen]

Too late unless you enjoy making a hobby of getting your fucking nuts torn off on a constant basis. You're practically a senior citizen if you are just starting serious training at 24. There are so many people that have been at the top of their shit for years, bro. Stop making excuses and jam your dick into the ass of hardcore training, my man. Then maybe you'll get it wet, my man. Until then, you're going to get gorilla raped by a nine pound sausage so hard you won't be able to sit for weeks.

 

[Joshua King]

You've only trained for a year at the most when you were 17 and haven't trained in 7 years yet you want to go pro? I don't want to be harsh but you shouldn't even be thinking about going pro right now. My advice to you as someone who has quite a lot of Ammy experience is You should be getting your ass in a gym, training your ass off, take a couple of amateur fights, see how you like it and how you do then go from there. Fight training isn't easy, it's fucking hard. Training to compete also takes away your social life, so you must be prepared for that as well. You're not too old to start training to go pro but you're pretty old at 24 to have next to no experience. Unless you're a physical specimen or are naturally talented you're going to have a hard time playing catch up and competing with guys that have years of experience on you.

TLDR: Find a gym, put a lot of time into the gym, get some ammy fights, see how you like it and if you like it, then consider thinking about going pro.

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