Amir Khan Vs Paul McCloskey Build-Up Thread!

thats not exactly correct, the human body does not work like that, if you cant handle a shot from someone you just cant handle it, you can learn to roll with it, block it, slip it but if you cant take it you cant take it.

sparring mike tyson 50 rounds wont make you comfortable with his power.

 

This is pretty much correct.

It would be like someone saying "Getting hit in the face with a baseball bat increases your ability to deal with future hits from a baseball bat"

 

There are limits on how much you can "improve your chin" but people who spar hard tend to be better at taking shots compared to people who don't so it's logical to claim hard sparring improves punch resistance

 

This is pretty spurious stuff IMO.

 

feel free to prove it wrong

 

surely its up to you to prove it right in the first place?

thats like saying "i can run faster than him as i eat more kiwi fruits, prove me wrong"

 

Haha thats a good analogy.

 

i see this fight as a pretty wide mismatch. Khan wins by stoppage whenever he decides IMO

 

That's a bad example. It's a well known fact that a diet that is kiwi heavy significantly improves running speed. They are the only things Usain Bolt eats.

 

I disagree, I think it gets easier to deal with pain in boxing (and indeed any sport) the more experienced you become at having to cope with it. Think back to the first time you got hit with a powerful shot and how long it took you to recover from it.

The next time you have to cope with it it's not as much of an unbearable experience as you know that you've been here before and have learned to deal with it.

I appreciate that this description is quite simplistic and the subject is obviously more complex but all other things being equal - sparring does help a fighter to deal with powerful shots

 

you might disagree mate but it really does not work like that, too many blows causes trauma and concussions, many boxers have lost their punch resistance due to taking too many hard shots, thats why boxing is about hitting and not getting hit.

put it this way, if i get knocked out by tyson 10 times the 8th or 9th time is not gonna be any easier than the 1st time, granted i dont die first.

 

yeah ofcourse you can improve your punch resistance up to a point.

but all boxers spar, david haye has sparred some of the heaviest hitters at heavyweight outweighing him by over 30-40lb's and he's still chinny.

 

hope khan thinks like that too :hi: