Why does size matter?

Apart from very tall guys it's almost impossible to tell who would be a natural heavyweight Now, whatever that is.

There is so much artificial weight in Boxing now. It's got nothing to do with people getting bigger, it's to do with how people train and artificially enhance their size now.

Does size matter? Yes it does. But it matters more now because of how much more functional the excess weight is compared to how functional excess weight used to be.

It used to be that weight slowed a fighter down. When gloves were smaller there was less leather to shield and parry blows so it took more effort for the big guy to avoid getting hit. There were three extra Championship rounds. It was considered that the lighter a fighter was the faster he would be. That's all changed. So many factors favoured lighter faster skilled fighters.

The reason why excess weight is functional now is two fold. First if every heavyweight is artificially enhanced one way or the other where is the handicap if Both guys carry the same excess? Secondly interval training, fighting in short explosive spurts suits this era of over developed fighters.

Nobody is born to look the way fighters and sportsmen look now. If you don't believe me check out the US military weight requirements. Every height of human is considered with leeway for age taken into consideration. Maximum weight for height for each age group is listed.

Very few heavyweights today would make these requirements because they are so over developed. Too heavy for their weight.

Alarmingly, 30 years ago the vast majority of world class heavyweights generally met these US army weight requirements.

http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/army-weight-rules.html

 

High testosterone is linked to high tolerance of pain. There loads of info on the internet...

 

Dago I'm not a technical coach I hate that ****, and rather depend on science. Good form is derived from epigenetics.

 

highly stupid assumptions are linked to high level levels of stupidity too

 

Dago I work in pharmaceutics... steroids given to boxers are called cocktails consisting of hgh, testosterone and insulin. Yes, boxers like Luis Ortiz take insulin to add girth to the waist inorder to take body shots, further testosterone is believed to raise tolerance to pain. A couple of months ago I met an American doctor who prescribes T to patients who live in chronic pain.

 

Paola?
Mr. Dagowop can you take a body shot?

 

Walnutz is what they call me... Paul is my name. First rule in gambling is can the fighter who you're betting on- take a body-shot! Come on it's money, or some cases big potatoes and if money is lost, things can happen. You need a fighter whose durable... maybe he's a bit slow both in the head and in the hands becos of weight gain, that being said as long as he can punch and go forward, the decision is in the hands of the judges forget about it.

 

Ridiculous statement. Get a grip.

Skin durability isn't the same as the ability to take a punch, obviously.

Why didn't he fight at 200lbs then?

 

Marciano embodied qualities that Wlad didn't. The same is true vice versa. That Wlad wasn't the same type of fighter as Marciano doesn't diminish his status as a champion.