6'5" 270 Pounds Ray Edwards Makes His Boxing debut This Friday

The only footballer ever worth a **** in boxing was Charlie Powell. This guy is going to join Too Tall Jones, Mark Gastineu, Alonso Highsmith, Jimmy Ellis, Jevon Langford, James Bryant, and Qudratine Hill in making a fool out of himself.

 

U.S is trying to recruit new top superheavys, from college football dropouts.

They pay their training and give them some salary for their efforts.

Don’t know how they will do in future, but those goliaths were pretty skilled in American amateur tournament last year. Or so I heard.

I think they could succeed to make some solid pros that way.

 

If so, then then more power to us. But to be honest, I will believe it when I see it.

I am compiling a list of guys who tried boxing from other sports. The results are pretty poor.

 

It's good that he's already in shape and all (football shape that is), but stamina is very sport-specific. For example, in the past when I was boxing I had great stamina. I could spar for rounds on end. But when I would run a pick up game of basketball with experienced ballers, their stamina horrifically trumped mine.

Another example: Take someone with no boxing experience who can run the 400 meters in 50 seconds. That person will likely gas out after only a round, or two at best, of sparring. Why? Because their body isn't fine-tuned for it.

Don't expect to see great conditioning from Edwards in his upcoming fight.

It also doesn't really help that he has only 6 or 7 sparring sessions. Really? That's hardly enough to teach you anything. In most amateur boxing gyms, a fighter will typically spar for a few months before being matched with his first opponent. Sparring is suppose to teach a fighter how to relax in the ring, work on their reflexes, teach you to push through adversity, learn how to set up your combinations, learn how to cut angles instead of backing up in a straight line, etc. Again, 6 or 7 sessions just ain't gonna do that.

That said, of course if he is matched against sufficiently crappy opposition then he will win the match - but that's trivial. The real test, as many people have already said in this thread, is whether he can succeed against a live opponent, and for the reasons I've already listed here I don't think he will.

 

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couldnt care less

 

Why would you want that guy training you...interesting read i found out about Jeff Warner

http://www.hack-man.com/Wrestling/NewsArticles/20000319-ShadowBoxer.html

 

Stats wise its look good but we all know boxing isnt about stats.


Michael Grant 6'7 260 pounds

Tye Fields 6'9 280 pounds

Lance Whitaker 6'8 250 pounds

Jameel McLine 6'5 1/2 260 pounds

Kevin McBride 6'6 280 pounds


All these men have impressive stats, yet they didnt exactly dominate the division.

 

This is almost certainly what will happen as soon as he faces a live body. Expect him - like Gastineau - to fight as many handpicked stiffs as possible before that happens.:yep

 

True. Grant, Fields, Whitaker, and McCline definitely looked the part, probably even more so than Edwards, but there are a lot of big guys in the world...doesn't mean they can box.

My two biggest questions with Edwards are obviously #1 his experience, and secondly his stamina. Boxing and Football are complete opposites as far as what you are doing. In boxing you got 3 minutes on, and then a minute rest. With football it's 10-15 seconds of activity, then a minute or more of rest. One thing is for sure, Edwards can't commit to both.

 

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He sounded very ignorant about boxing. I'm not sure if he's really going to dedicate himself to the sport to the point where he actually reconditions his body and stamina, and actually sits down to learn the game. Boxing isn't just about fighting, it really is a science, and if he thinks he's just going to learn how to move his head and throw punches and win he will be in for a real big surprise. I do wish him the best, but I'm not feeling very hopeful of him.