Boxing more Mental than Physical

Popkins say this:

There are three crucial aspects to boxing: Physical, Mental, Technical.

All three are important, but Technical is the most important.

You can be mentally weak, you can be physically declined, but if you have great boxing skills you will have success in boxing, because boxing is more about skills and technique than anything else.

People think it makes them sound very wise when they say "it's more mental than anything else", but in cold hard reality that is just complete bull****.

 

See Ortiz vs Maidana.

At a championship level, confidence and mental fortitude are everything.
Nobody is claiming that a confident, strong truck driver will be able to outbox Cintron FFS. Proper context is required here.

 

Mayweather said against oscar,
Ive got in his head mentally, so ive practically won, all ive gotta do is beat him physically in the ring which i will brutally !

 

You need proper mentality to keep yourself going. It's more of a triangle. power and mentality without adequate skills means you can still lose. Skills and power without mentality means you won't dig hard enough when the pressure is on to pull out a win. Skills and mentality without power makes you Paulie Malignaggi.

However, Oscar said after Manny beat him "My heart wants to continue, but when your physical doesn't respond, what can you do?"

 

If you have the right gameplan you can me scared as **** but the technical part can easily pull you through it.

 

I voted Physical of the two choices given, but I feel the poll is defective. Technical should be included, and this would be the correct choice.

Being physically fit is not even close to being the same as technically proficient, they are two entirely different things. To separate mental and physical but ignore technical is pointless. :deal

 

I would say they are about equal in terms of importance.

You can have great physical tools, but if you're not in the right frame of mind, etc...it will account to nothing. A boxers training camp aims to get said boxer in the best possible condition, physically and mentally...even more important when you reach the top of the sport.

 

Having the right mentality is crucial in most sports.

 

It depends on what level.

Boxing is a very physically complicated sport. There are moves and techniques that goes most human's instinct. Slipping a punch for example, sliding TOWARDS the punch is counter to most instincts.

So for most part, even in high level professional boxing the sport is mostly physical. Most pros are not well versed enough in every physical aspect and those with enough physical talent can overcome most mental and technical deficiencies.

This is why it is so hard to find even an ATG that is a complete specificimen in regards to every physical demand - speed, endurance, power, agility, ambidexterity, reaction, etc.

This is also why it takes so long for a boxer to reach a high level, usually needing to have been trained since their late teenage years to be credible in the mid 20s.

I go with physicality.

Mental and technical kicks in the elite level (P4P).

 

I think both of you are a bit off. There is skill (technical boxing), physical gifts, and training (physical). All guys are a synergy of the three.

I am not sure where mental would fit except under physical gifts. You can be the meanest mofo on the planet and a guy that is athletic and skilled will spark you EVERY time.

 

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Many fighters in their 30s and 40s still have mentalities of iron, but their skills and physiques have simply eroded.

And I have seen fighters look pretty nervous and/or apprehensive, and use boxing skills to get through.

 

I don't think physical is the most important aspect:

 

No-one could ever doubt that the mental side is important, but of course the most critical thing to being a good boxer is (pretty obviously I would've thought) is being good at boxing. :nut