'Boxing is just two people punching each other in the face.'

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by AS92, Jun 16, 2010.


  1. AS92

    AS92 *****hole Full Member

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    I've been told this many times by friends who don't have a clue about boxing, and wondered how you would explain how it is so much more than 'two people punching each other in the face'.
     
  2. AffectedToaster

    AffectedToaster Well-Known Member Full Member

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    they hit each other in the body as well
     
  3. Mandanda

    Mandanda SkillspayBills Full Member

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    Boxing is the purest artform of combat. Two men outwitting there opponent in a physical chess battle.

    How to Hit?? and Not Get Hit???, Using Technique and Skill and Intelligence,
     
  4. kosaros

    kosaros Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    "It's one of the great working class escapes, is boxing. It's just sport, like any other. Two highly trained athletes at the peak of physical perfection trying to outwit each other in a ring of combat. In fact, at it's best, it's not a sport - it's an artform."

    Dave Lister
     
  5. DDA365

    DDA365 Gatecrasher Full Member

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    in some big fights lately ive been wishing this was the case to be honest
     
  6. Dan684

    Dan684 Dave's Stepdad Full Member

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    Dont explain it to them, just slug them on the bridge of their nose and say "Does that make you a boxer now tosspot, or maybe just a mouthy ****"

    Say go away and look at the sport before just using some blasé phrase to explain a sport you have little knowledge of
     
  7. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Really it does boil down to this (if you add 'head and body' to the phrase)
     
  8. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    You let all your staff participate?
     
  9. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl

    Lord Kosaros of Middlesburgh rules of course.
     
  10. AndrewFFC

    AndrewFFC Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Its about learning how not to get hit in the face.
     
  11. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Evening fisticuffs on the croquet lawn between the gardener and the butler while the Lord of Middlesbrough looks on from his library window eating his cucumber sandwiches and sipping his Pimms.
     
  12. TFFP

    TFFP The Eskimo

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    :lol:
     
  13. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl

    Bet his slave is the best of the bunch though, a Tom Moliyneax sorta fighter.
     
  14. MagicMan91

    MagicMan91 The Main Event Mafia Full Member

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    Sometimes they get hit in the balls as well, that's quite entertaining.
     
  15. kosaros

    kosaros Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :lol: