When boxers have to travel....

Braindamage · Aug 11, 2023

AntonioMartin1 said: ↑

I have a question which is....a lot of boxers have to travel extravagant distances to fight places for example, every boxer who travels from Japan, The Philippines, South Korea, Australia etc to the Americas and to Europe, from Africa to the Americas and vice-versa also.

One good example: In 1982 and in 1984, Ossie Ocasio had to travel from Puerto Rico to South Africa for world title fights. There was no non-stop flights from Puerto Rico to South Africa (trust me, I am an aviation historian too) so Ossie probably flew to New York on either American or Eastern Airlines (Pan Am still flew to San Juan in those years but their offerings were limited to Miami and Caracas from our part of the world) and then catch a South African Airways flight to Johannesburg. (SAA could fly to the USA despite Apartheid, sanctions against that airline that prohibited it from flying to the US because of Apartheid came later, in 1986) .
That right there is 3 to 4 hours to New York, and then 16 hours and a half to Johannesburg!

My question then is, what does that do to a boxer's body in terms of so much time flying? And how do they make up training wise for possibly one entire day of training lost while flying??

I mean, New York to Las Vegas is 4 hours roughly, you get on the plane, get out, go check in and then go train...or go train then get on the plane..London to Paris, Seoul to Tokyo, Mexico City to Las Vegas, Los Angeles to Las Vegas those are all 6 hours or less, you can train and fly the same day...

But when it's an ultra long flight like Sydney to Los Angeles and then to Las Vegas? Manila to.....New York or Philadelphia to Manila..even LA to Manila!

How do they do it? And how does it affect them and their performance in the fight?
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I think it depends on when they reach their destination. If they get there 2 weeks before, they should be ok. My lose a day or 2 of training, but that close to the fight shouldn't have a negative effect. They should be in god shape already.

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