Boxing more Mental than Physical

Wow such a good thread turned childish ... wouldn't technical fall under physical?

 

If it did then physical wins hands down.

 

I tend to agree with you about this. I think that if a boxer is in decent physcial shape and has a good head on his shoulders he can do very well by learning and using the basic fundementals. Otherwise known as technical skills. When I say that he can do very well. I would not expect to see him in the Hall of Fame some day, but he can make a living as a boxer and even win a world championship at some point in his career.
Here is where we might disagree. I think to be great a boxer needs to be more than just a great technical skills. He has to have the Physical and Mental skills that often times can not be tought. One thing that I beleive is that regardless of the sport. The greats are born with something that the rest of us don't have.
Joe Louis may be the best technical boxer in the history of boxing. He also had amazing punching power. Power is something that you can improve on but you ever have it or you don't. I don't think Louis would have been as sucussfull in his career had he not had that power.

 

It's not boxing per say, but it supports my opinion. 'You picked the wrong man'

A young punk who tried to mug an 88-year-old picked the wrong man -- his intended victim turned out to be a former boxing champion who knocked the attacker out cold.

"I was visiting a friend's grave when a young, long-haired man came up to me and demanded I hand over my money," said granddad Gerhard Brinkmann of Halberstadt, Germany, who was the country's top lightweight boxer in 1936.

"I told him to come closer if he wanted it and, as he did, I landed a full-force right hook on his chin."

The mugger had all the physical advantages but the old timer had the mental edge.