Roman Puga Sparring at the David Benavidez Boxing gym Round 2 

The term sparring means to practice your boxing techniques going live with your sparring mate or partner for the round. You are going live in real time. Now some boxing practitioners/ and other combatants have their own interpretations as to how light or how hard to go while sparring. I believe it is critical to not injure your sparring partners while training alongside one another. I do believe in hard sparring, but there is no common sense in damaging sparring partners and you run the risk of having no one to train with. To each practitioner, you are free to make up your own mind.