Hard Sparring overrated?

Sparring that is simulating the fight before hand. Live action pushed to the limit.

 

Hard sparring is the most important part of training

Lots of ignorance on this forum

 

lots of expert opinions here, assuming you all coach professional fighters. I remember Brendan Ingles gym only did body sparring from memory and they had many world champs and defensive wizards like prince naseem.

 

Mayweather does hard sparring though. He used to spar 10(?) minute rounds with different sparring partners rotating in. Leading up to the jmm fight he was sparring 8 4 minute rounds with 15 secs in between.

 

A lot has to do with style too.

Arslan can't use his style at 100% in training consistently, it's just not a style built for longevity.

Mayweather can spar all day hard if he wants, as his style has nothing to do with taking punches.

 

This ^

It's never a good thing in taking punches in sparring and if you have a bad defense you will take alot of punches.

 

Mayweather-Guerrero was a hard sparring session. Floyds sparring partners could go as hard as they please, it would make no difference.

 

you can do many hard sparrings and you will improve very fast but you wont last long..

hard sparring is good once a week, once in a two weeks.. other sparrings should be controlled, def/attack, one hand, body sparring etc..

you will improve your technique and you will last long and be a champion more times then if you had only hard sparrings and got brain damaged.

 

Bert Sugar said that Joe Frazier used to have so many gym wars and that a lot of those Philadelphia boxers left their fight in the gym because it was so brutal.

 

Probably why fighters dont have heart like they used to.

 

heart have no connection with hard sparring.. very shitty post

 

“I had Mike sparring 10 rounds everyday... 5 days a week! It was an all out war EVERYDAY. There was none of that one day on and one day off crap. To be a great fighter... you have to spar. You gotta spar everyday, day in and day out, week after week. With Mike, I would spar him up until two or three days before a fight.”

 

Interesting stuff. I’ve always held the opinion that intense sparring sessions should be limited. Being worked hard at a higher pace for stamina purposes is fine, but gym wars with repeated hard shots to the head? Nah, man. Keep that to a bare minimum. A good recent example/comparison of this was what Sky showed in their countdown to Khan-Garcia. In the Wildcard, Khan was going toe-to-toe with his partner and eating repeated power-shots to the head. Meanwhile Garcia’s sparring looked purposefully slowed down with emphasis on technique, timings and shot selections.

 

good point, mayweather in sparring seems to take few risks also