What is the most important gift in boxing?

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  1. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Ring IQ, doesn't matter what your physical attributes are, if you're too dumb to maximise them or worse, fight in a manner that exposes your weaknesses for opponents to exploit then those gifts become irrelevant.
     
  2. Ted Spoon

    Ted Spoon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Bravery. Its what sees you enter a ring in the first place and its what gets you off the canvas.
     
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  3. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Speed.

    You can develop IQ to a limited extent but speed will equalize anything.
     
  4. BCS8

    BCS8 VIP Member

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    I was gonna plump for amazing speed above all else, and then I remembered Amir Khan ...
     
  5. megavolt

    megavolt Constantly Shadowboxing Full Member

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    Gift is something that cannot be given. You can teach a boxer.

    I would say athleticism, as is for near any other athlete.

    The age old comparison: put a black belt child in with an adult. Put an 85 year old grandmaster in with a 27 year old in his athletic prime.
     
  6. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Speed + IQ = RJJ
     
  7. lt. columbo

    lt. columbo New Member Full Member

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    reflexes.
    roy jones jr. is a good example. that guy was like putting a boxing glove on lightning.
     
  8. m.s.

    m.s. Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A superfight without a robbery, or fear of one.
     
  9. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Power. Because everything can be added on after that. Plus they all hit hard at the world class level usually I meant. Even if you had a crappy trainer, could block basic punches and could throw a good one two and had a penchant/ leaning/ liking towards fighting you could always add more ring iq. Jmo
     
  10. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Chin and stamina
     
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  11. AngryBirds

    AngryBirds Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    All of that thinking would go out the window against some crazed psychopath who only cares about spamming power shots to the ribs to tenderize them.
     
  12. fencik45

    fencik45 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    bought and paid for judges and ref.
     
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  13. NoChin

    NoChin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sorry the most important Gift in Boxing?

    Then It's A chin. Which I don't have. Hence the name.......


    NoChin.
     
  14. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Internet virgin Full Member

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    Fundamentals, everything comes frrom good training.
     
  15. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    If you're a prize fighter and you can't take a pop on the whiskers get your pathetic defective genes ass the hell out of my sport ASAP you worthless piece of subhuman trash.

    Apologies if I come across as too harsh but this is a subject I feel very strongly about. There is simply no place in the sport for disgusting glass-jawed or below average punch resistance vermin. They are not only a blight and an embarrassment on the sport and the iron-jawed warriors who came before them, they are a blight and an embarrassment to our species.