What is the most important gift in boxing?

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  1. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Ring IQ, doesn't matter what your physical attributes are, if you're too dumb to maximise them or worse, fight in a manner that exposes your weaknesses for opponents to exploit then those gifts become irrelevant.
     
  2. Ted Spoon

    Ted Spoon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Bravery. Its what sees you enter a ring in the first place and its what gets you off the canvas.
     
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  3. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Speed.

    You can develop IQ to a limited extent but speed will equalize anything.
     
  4. BCS8

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    I was gonna plump for amazing speed above all else, and then I remembered Amir Khan ...
     
  5. megavolt

    megavolt Constantly Shadowboxing Full Member

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    Gift is something that cannot be given. You can teach a boxer.

    I would say athleticism, as is for near any other athlete.

    The age old comparison: put a black belt child in with an adult. Put an 85 year old grandmaster in with a 27 year old in his athletic prime.
     
  6. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Speed + IQ = RJJ
     
  7. lt. columbo

    lt. columbo Member Full Member

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    reflexes.
    roy jones jr. is a good example. that guy was like putting a boxing glove on lightning.
     
  8. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A superfight without a robbery, or fear of one.
     
  9. Mike_b

    Mike_b Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Power. Because everything can be added on after that. Plus they all hit hard at the world class level usually I meant. Even if you had a crappy trainer, could block basic punches and could throw a good one two and had a penchant/ leaning/ liking towards fighting you could always add more ring iq. Jmo
     
  10. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Chin and stamina
     
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    AngryBirds Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    All of that thinking would go out the window against some crazed psychopath who only cares about spamming power shots to the ribs to tenderize them.
     
  12. fencik45

    fencik45 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    bought and paid for judges and ref.
     
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  13. NoChin

    NoChin Jamal Adams - I'm the best in the nAAAAAYSHON!!!! Full Member

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    Sorry the most important Gift in Boxing?

    Then It's A chin. Which I don't have. Hence the name.......


    NoChin.
     
  14. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Sidney Sweeney got a flat ass Full Member

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    Fundamentals, everything comes frrom good training.
     
  15. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    If you're a prize fighter and you can't take a pop on the whiskers get your pathetic defective genes ass the hell out of my sport ASAP you worthless piece of subhuman trash.

    Apologies if I come across as too harsh but this is a subject I feel very strongly about. There is simply no place in the sport for disgusting glass-jawed or below average punch resistance vermin. They are not only a blight and an embarrassment on the sport and the iron-jawed warriors who came before them, they are a blight and an embarrassment to our species.