Why would an average Joe believe he can beat a Pro Fighter?

Why would an average Joe believe he can beat a Pro Fighter?

Ignorance...

 

I think average people could beat pros, very poor pros who are just average people with a boxing licence...

 

The question is wich 'avarage Joe' against wich 'pro fighter'?
There are many different levels in avarage Joes and pro fighters. If you think you can beat Marciano you're obviously not the brightest spark, but if you're a big strong guy and you believe you can drop someone like Eric Crumble inside a round you're probably right.

There's a huge difference with a lot of other sports if it comes to boxing.
If you have a hell of a chin, and a hell of a punch you can get pretty far without having much talent.
The so called 'regular Joe' can have both those things from nature, just like Marciano had who was regulary in brawls before he became a pro and would have beaten quite a lot of pros before he became one himself.

 

I know of at least one famous fighter who got knocked out in a nightclub for hitting on someones girlfriend. That guy wasn't a boxer.

 

Because there are people like Charlie Zelenoff that call themselves pro fighters, who anybody with a pulse would beat.

 

that bit with charlie murphy talking about johnny gill and oscar was ****ing hilarious

 

I'll beat the living **** out of Floyd Mayweather

in a street fight

Merc him


The only guys that can beat me a street fight

with no rules attached and with weapons allowed

are

Prime Lennox Lewis

Prime Vitali Klitschko

Vitali is a 50 50 fight against me. I'm not quite as big but 5 times as fast and 11 times more mean

 

I guess a lot of people here also forget what being a pro actually means.
It means you compete in boxingmatches for money. It doesn't say anything about talent, conditioning, strength, training hours or anything else. Only that you get paid for it.

If overweight Larry Buttface finds out he can't pay his rent/mortgage anymore and decides to take a few beatings for money, joins the local boxing club and passes the (probably very low key) medical test from the Backwather State Athletic Comission, he essentially is a pro right from that point on.

Does that suddenly make him so much stronger? No, that probably makes him one of the guys starting (more serious) pros feed on to pad their records.

But he still would be a pro.

 

inflated/misplaced ego, ignorance, stupidity, intoxication, mental instability, anger, feeling offended allowing pride to take over your better senses (eg. Larry 'I'll kick you ass if I was 50 years younger' Merchant)

 

In that case the chance of beating him is practically zero :yep
(I can't watch the video's at this PC also, I'm at work)

 

My mate Dave could beat the crap out of Wlad