>>75479603
>kickboxing/MMA gym
>for 7 months
>sparring and fighting
Either you're talented and have a good teacher, or they're throwing you into fights before you're ready. In my experience (~20 years of ful contact martial arts) it's rare for people to be able to fight after less than a year. Sure, there's some exceptions, and I've had a few students who were ready after only some weeks, but that's extremely rare.

Anyways, for your main question: I'd recommend challenging someone way above you in terms of skill. Tell them outright that you don't expect o win, but want to see how far you can go, and basically invite them to play with / torture you.
If you're anything like me, or any of the people I've trained (and a small portion of others I've trained with), you'll soon reach a point where you completely understand that you can't win, and that advancing further will just bring you pain. If, at that point, you push through, accepting that you will lose and just trying to continue as long as possible, you'll lose the fear. In addition, this feeling of continuing in the face of certain pain / loss is among the best feelings you can have. At least without chemical aid.

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