Classic fighters with odd/different training methods

Duran used to skip rope whilst on his haunches. looks easy but see how you feel after a minute. Duran used to do it for 15-20 mins at a time

 

Jack Johnson believed that one beer a day is good for boxers

 

I read in a Muhammad Ali biography that he had told the writer that one day in the late 1960s when his popularity was low he had a guy coming for a photo shoot and wanted something big to give him. Ali's normal stuff wasn't that big so he decided to go into the pool and tell the guy that he did this to get faster even though he didn't.

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Don't know if this is true or not, I just read it in the book.

 

Yes this is true


I remember reading an interview with the camera woman for the shoot. Ali fooled them into thinking that was part of his training. Then after the shoot, the camera woman asked him if he actually trains in the pool, and he winked at her and smiled. hahahhaha

 

In actuality, shadow punching for speed in water is something Marciano is supposed to have done. Maybe this was inspired in part by the drowning visualizations of Fitz. Rocky was also said by Skehan not to have used a speed bag in training because he was convinced it was of no use to a heavyweight. (Another who supposedly eschewed the speed bag was Tunney, someone renowned for his hand speed.)

During his stunningly unlikely late career run as WBC JWW Champion, the psychotic Bruce Curry defied his trainer Jesse Reid by heavily immersing himself in weight training and Oriental martial arts techniques (which led to his pushing his punches out more, instead of leveraging them properly). Billy Costello dethroned him with superior boxing methodology, but an over trained Bruce did put up a hell of a fight before succumbing, and it looked at times as though he might suddenly break through and overwhelm Costello with sheer persistence and mental insanity.

 

From what I understand Ali couldn't even swim.

 

Robots don't feel pain... and don't get winded.