"About 90% of boxers in this country in my opinion, lead unprofessional lifestyles."

What the **** was he eating?! A GRAND a week on food? ****in hell...

 

It's quality not quantity. ;-)

Flying fish, some weird cabbage, some proper "outh there" organic food.

 

How the other half live eh?

 

Oats, Chorrella, Fruits, Vegatables, Brown Rice, Fish, Chicken: Organic.

No Milk, No Dairy, No Wheat.

 

Then the quality of the food didnt reflect the quality of his performance

 

Clutching at straws or what!?!?

 

I'm pretty sure cardiovascular fitness, muscle endurance and all-round flexibility would be far more beneficial for boxing than pure strength. All three are damn imperative.

 

There all important so is strength, would Mike Tyson be as affective without his strength/power. Power is how fast you can apply force in the shortest amount of time, strength is the amount of force you can generate.

There all important components of fitness for a boxer.

 

I know I laughed at that one too. Anyone who's trained knows that you will not be able to throw punches or your guard will drop if you don't have good endurance in your arms but apparently he "embarressed" me.

I think we can conlude he that contary to the argument being made in this thread that at least 90% of pro boxers do infact lead a professional lifestyle.

 

Based on absoulutly no practical knowledge what so ever just an opinion which you have deduced in your own head yet you have written an entire essay critisizing world class boxers training methods. I know that training your upper body and your core is absoulutley essential for amateur boxing never mind pro, and I'll bet you now that every boxing who has ever reached a world class level has trained their upper body endurance.

 

The biceps are also needed actually to keep the arms up and since you're calling this guy a window licker, please tell me, do you not realize that the arms are used during punches and some boxers throw over 1000 forcful punches in a fight? Parrying and absorbing punches with the guard takes endurance too, also if this area does not have endurance they have no power going into the later rounds. You have mentioned how many push-ups Darchinyan does, yet you have no knowledge of his leg work-out but you are saying he does too much on his arms and not enough on his legs.

 

I concur,

But I will give my input as to why this happens, I believe a fight camp is one of the most brutal, mental & physically tough processes a human being can undergo, I fight MMA and my last fight seen me have almost a 12 week camp after a lay off from the sport of about 12 months. The camp hurt and hurt bad, the feeling is left in-printed in your memory, then once its all over, the little things you cannot do in camp seem like the most important things in the world!

The odd beer, some chocolate, heaven forbid a day off training! Well for some fighters this becomes obssessively excessant, and they take it too far, to the point were it damages there true potential.

Its the ability to stay clean while resting (as rest is also vitally important) and get straight back in the gym once the body has healed that most pro's seem to lack, ive seen it first hand, it happens, the word proffesional is somewhat of **** take used in this context!

Money in the sport breeds this complacency, would you see a Mexican boxer taking 18 months out of the ring because in his last fight he netted 6 figures? NO, because every day is a fight for them, and them 6 figures is giving his Family a roof over there head and food on there table, British fighters not fulfilling there true potential is down to money, I'm not saying they shouldnt be paid well, hell there not paid enough! its what they do and how they react to being handed that type of money!

For a vast vast majority of "pro-boxers" the gains are just not worth the pain, its a brutal brutal sport and its very difficuilt to break out and be a star, sometimes its not all about ability, the long game, the big picture, the ability to just keep going to the gym and get better an better with little or no reward for years! Its not an easy thing to ask of a man, its a lonely disorientated lifestyle.