Sparring partner doesn’t stop moving forward and doesn’t take the hint

Hey folks. Today I did some light sparring in class. We focused on just boxing. I got paired up with a newbie. I’ve been doing this for about a year so I’m a little experienced but ran into an issue.

The newbie would not stop walking towards me. Which is great–I usually tell people newbies that most of the time the problem is typically the opposite (where newbies are scared and do nothing but back up). But this dude literally did nothing but walk towards me in a straight line every second, swinging.

So i threw a few punches, posted, did some long guard to kinda keep him at bay. I slipped and ducked most of his punches but he continues to advance like a mad man. I’m only slightly peppering him with my punches. Prob 10-20% at the most. But it starts to get annoying because if I was going harder, most people would stop to think. But he doesn’t care because he’s new or just doesn’t know I’m taking it super easy on him. Next, I’m pivoting out, footwork, everything. It’s a fun spar but annoying because he’s literally just taking my punches on his face and still walking forward swinging wildly. I let him get a few hits in but he continues to walk me down. He does this for about the first round round. I tell him to focus on defense a bit more and he ignores me continues to do whatever he is doing the next round. I just sigh.

Has this ever happened to anyone before? What would you do? I don’t wanna go stronger because I don’t want to treat newbies badly and they’re still fresh they hardly know anything. But at the same time it’s annoying because he’s learning bad habits. Also dude is short and stocky and fits into that brawler category.