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How good are boxers when it comes to street fights?
The reason for the thread is that sometimes we get kind of disrespectful when talking about boxers who lost, etc. I am guilty of it myself.
Do not think that Doyle Brunson would not kill your home poker game if he wanted to. You would not have any furniture left if Doyle was playing seriously.
It is the same with any sport. Willie Shoemaker could ride a horse backwards and beat your cousin who likes horses.
In the old days this was more pronounced. There was no MMA. The only people doing martial arts had too much discipline to get in street fights.
We had a family owned bar. I have seen a lot of street fights between guys who wanted to prove they were tough against guys who had once done a little boxing. The boxers always win easily unless there is a physical mismatch.
Folks, street fighters cannot hit experienced boxers. I saw a featherweight who grew up in his dad's gym and had done some amateur fighting knock out a six foot seven gorilla who liked to fight when he got drunk. I was in a band with the gorilla. He could sing like a bird, but thought because he was 6'7" he was supposed to be tough, too. He was beefy, not skinny.
The featherweight hit him about a dozen times before he knew what was up. He said it didn't hurt him that much, but just humiliated and enraged him.
The police found R lying in the mud. He wasn't really KO'd, but his face sure was messed up. At one point he had gotten a hold of the featherweight's arm and given him a drunken fling into a lumber pile. While feeling his own face for damage, and swearing drunkenly, he fell down again. That's where the cops found him. He had never landed a punch.
The funny part was in court. The judge asked R if he wanted the featherweight to pay his medical expenses. R was humiliated that he even had any. No, he told the judge. Then the judge asked the featherweight, and he said yes. R jumped back in, now wanting his own expenses. The judge told him it was too late. R ended up paying his own costs and for the guys wrist.
The reason for the thread is that sometimes we get kind of disrespectful when talking about boxers who lost, etc. I am guilty of it myself.
Do not think that Doyle Brunson would not kill your home poker game if he wanted to. You would not have any furniture left if Doyle was playing seriously.
It is the same with any sport. Willie Shoemaker could ride a horse backwards and beat your cousin who likes horses.
In the old days this was more pronounced. There was no MMA. The only people doing martial arts had too much discipline to get in street fights.
We had a family owned bar. I have seen a lot of street fights between guys who wanted to prove they were tough against guys who had once done a little boxing. The boxers always win easily unless there is a physical mismatch.
Folks, street fighters cannot hit experienced boxers. I saw a featherweight who grew up in his dad's gym and had done some amateur fighting knock out a six foot seven gorilla who liked to fight when he got drunk. I was in a band with the gorilla. He could sing like a bird, but thought because he was 6'7" he was supposed to be tough, too. He was beefy, not skinny.
The featherweight hit him about a dozen times before he knew what was up. He said it didn't hurt him that much, but just humiliated and enraged him.
The police found R lying in the mud. He wasn't really KO'd, but his face sure was messed up. At one point he had gotten a hold of the featherweight's arm and given him a drunken fling into a lumber pile. While feeling his own face for damage, and swearing drunkenly, he fell down again. That's where the cops found him. He had never landed a punch.
The funny part was in court. The judge asked R if he wanted the featherweight to pay his medical expenses. R was humiliated that he even had any. No, he told the judge. Then the judge asked the featherweight, and he said yes. R jumped back in, now wanting his own expenses. The judge told him it was too late. R ended up paying his own costs and for the guys wrist.
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