Boxing does appear more physical than any other sport, but it's really not. Maybe equally, but not more. Football just doesn't appear as rough because their injuries aren't as visible as in boxing. So yea, boxing does make other sports appear soft, but I don't think you can really compare someone who get's their faces banged up and body battered a couple times a year to a collarbone injury or someone playing on serious injuries, which need sugery, for games at a time. How many boxers have fought on a broken ankle? **** Mcnabb played an entire game on a broken ankle and in that game he threw for over 400 yards. I give it to you, boxing is mad tough, but no more than equally tough with football.
Not more physical? Are you joking?! My warmup regimen is tougher than their entire workout.
Cuts and bruises are the most common boxing injuries, and many boxers leave the ring needing stitches to the face and dental work.
Body blows can lead to broken ribs and internal bleeding. Meldrick Taylor lost ONE PINT OF BLOOD and swalloed another quart in his fight with JC Superstar. That's not more physical?
Boxing is vastly more physical and **** than any other sport. Your aim is to HURT your opponent. To force him into unwillfully submitting by knocking the consciousness out of him.
Getting hit in the head by an average lightweight is like being hit with a 12 pound wooden mallet travelling at 20 MPH. People just don't think that boxing is so physically taxing because we are the highest trained athletes in the world. We are MADE to take punishment and dish it out. No other reason. We spend 300 odd rounds sparring to gear us for ONE fight.
Breaking an ankle in football is a kind injury. That's like breaking a rib in boxing. Inconvenient, but it's not going to alter your gameplan heavily.
Oh yeah, and you don't get any timeouts or substitutions or anything of the like. You get 10 seconds to put yourself back together before you have a madman trying to **** you, standing right in front of you.
And if you'd expect the Castillo's, Gatti's, Fletcher's, Pacquaio's, Morales', Barrera's to fight more than 2-3 times a year, your a pretty sadistic guy.
Not more physical? Are you joking?! My warmup regimen is tougher than their entire workout.
Cuts and bruises are the most common boxing injuries, and many boxers leave the ring needing stitches to the face and dental work.
Body blows can lead to broken ribs and internal bleeding. Meldrick Taylor lost ONE PINT OF BLOOD and swalloed another quart in his fight with JC Superstar. That's not more physical?
Boxing is vastly more physical and **** than any other sport. Your aim is to HURT your opponent. To force him into unwillfully submitting by knocking the consciousness out of him.
Getting hit in the head by an average lightweight is like being hit with a 12 pound wooden mallet travelling at 20 MPH. People just don't think that boxing is so physically taxing because we are the highest trained athletes in the world. We are MADE to take punishment and dish it out. No other reason. We spend 300 odd rounds sparring to gear us for ONE fight.
Breaking an ankle in football is a kind injury. That's like breaking a rib in boxing. Inconvenient, but it's not going to alter your gameplan heavily.
Oh yeah, and you don't get any timeouts or substitutions or anything of the like. You get 10 seconds to put yourself back together before you have a madman trying to **** you, standing right in front of you.
And if you'd expect the Castillo's, Gatti's, Fletcher's, Pacquaio's, Morales', Barrera's to fight more than 2-3 times a year, your a pretty sadistic guy.
I typed like an entire reply then the backspace button got me...i gotta 11:10 so I'll be back.
Not more physical? Are you joking?! My warmup regimen is tougher than their entire workout.
Cuts and bruises are the most common boxing injuries, and many boxers leave the ring needing stitches to the face and dental work.
Body blows can lead to broken ribs and internal bleeding. Meldrick Taylor lost ONE PINT OF BLOOD and swalloed another quart in his fight with JC Superstar. That's not more physical?
Boxing is vastly more physical and **** than any other sport. Your aim is to HURT your opponent. To force him into unwillfully submitting by knocking the consciousness out of him.
Getting hit in the head by an average lightweight is like being hit with a 12 pound wooden mallet travelling at 20 MPH. People just don't think that boxing is so physically taxing because we are the highest trained athletes in the world. We are MADE to take punishment and dish it out. No other reason. We spend 300 odd rounds sparring to gear us for ONE fight.
Breaking an ankle in football is a kind injury. That's like breaking a rib in boxing. Inconvenient, but it's not going to alter your gameplan heavily.
Oh yeah, and you don't get any timeouts or substitutions or anything of the like. You get 10 seconds to put yourself back together before you have a madman trying to **** you, standing right in front of you.
And if you'd expect the Castillo's, Gatti's, Fletcher's, Pacquaio's, Morales', Barrera's to fight more than 2-3 times a year, your a pretty sadistic guy.
I typed like an entire reply then the backspace button got me...i gotta 11:10 so I'll be back.
Ok, I shall continue explaining to you why football is as physical as it is. As I said before, boxing only appears more physical. Most injuries that take place in boxing take place on the football field, but the only difference is that football players actually still play with these injuries. That's a common thing. It's true, in boxing the main goal is to hurt your opponent, whereas in football there's several different goals at different positions, but when it all comes down hurting someone is apart of the process of every one of these goals. The only player on the field who doesn't have to be physical is qb's and even they take beatings at times. David Carr was sacked over 50 times his rookie year, and for any one whose taken an open hit know's that doesn't feel good, especially when the person who's doing it is 260 lbs, and runs like someone who is 200 lbs. Now in getting to that, you said that in boxing getting hit in the head by an average lightweight is like being hit by a 20 pound mallet. Well, that's probaly why boxers don't take too many head blows to the dome before being k.o.ed. In football, you have 250 lb linebackers who are as strong as linemen and as fast as running backs, running full speed into opponents. Warren Sapp nearly ended someones career with a hit like that because it left him temporarily paralyzed. On that note, there's several football players in h.s. and college who are permanently paralyzed from playing the game...and this is with 18 and 19 year olds. Most football players are one piece of equipment away from death when they step on the field, considering the amount of players who died when protections was still in it's early stages. One of the biggest factors in football is taking hits. That's what separates h.s. from college, and college from the pros. I'm not saying that football is 10 times more physical than boxing, I'm just saying that boxing isn't more physical than football. I'm yet to hear about a boxer dying while in the middle of his training routine. Football players go out in temperatures that can reach the 100's and practice w/ helmets, shoulder pads AND girddles/pants and anybody who has played before knows how hot it can get under the equipment. For the best of the best, training never stops. There is no way that boxing could ever make football look like a **** sport.
