Why can't 'muscled' boxers win?

[Bahamut Zero]

Briggs is muscle bound (definitely more power I assume) but Sultan schools him...wtf!?

Speed > Power ?

[Chipper]

cause they think their big muscles will pwn everyone but thats not always the case

they need to focus more on boxing skills too

[EliteSoldier]

You try moving around at 275 pounds of muscle and his biceps probably get in the way from throwing a decent punch.

[jack_the_rippuh]

Roy Jones Jr, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, and Jeff Lacy (until he ran into that guy named Joe ) all fought good with their muscles.

[EliteSoldier]

Roy Jones Jr, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, and Jeff Lacy (until he ran into that guy named Joe ) all fought good with their muscles.

They aren't that big though, 275 pounds of muscle is alot to carry around. And muscles never bad, it matters where you put it on at. Mike Tyson was around 220, and he's only like 5"10- 5"11 in height. He's not even a big guy, he's just stocky looking because he's shorter then most heavies.

[jack_the_rippuh]

They aren't that big though, 275 pounds of muscle is alot to carry around. And muscles never bad, it matters where you put it on at. Mike Tyson was around 220, and he's only like 5"10- 5"11 in height. He's not evena big guy.

Briggs wasn't all muscle.
Just looking at him you can tell he's not all muscle.

[Verstyle]

Roy Jones Jr, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, and Jeff Lacy (until he ran into that guy named Joe ) all fought good with their muscles.

Besides Evander,I think they were more likely born with alot of muscle and just added on.

[boozer52]

It requires a lot of energy to move all that muscle around and the fighters get tied more easily. That in addition to thier belief that they can knock anyone out with one punch. The truth is that some of these guys get sobig and bulky that thier muscles get so tight that thier punches are slow and ineffective.

[GranTorino]

Wladimir's as muscular as they come, and all he does is win.

[Left2body]

Its the same reason you dont see 10k runners all muscle bound. Sprinters are more muscle bound because they use huge amounts of quick twitch muscles. Boxing requires endurance and flexibility. The leaner smoother muscles tend to be best for this.

Look at Mosley after coming back down from jrMW. To make 147lbs Mosley did less power lifting (builds muscle mass) and he looked GREAT. Mosley looked leaner, threw sharper punches and looked quicker than he has in a long time.

Look at how slow the Herculian Urango was against Hatton. Muscles does not equal power. Look at some of the hardest hitters of the last 5 years or so.....Tito, Tzu, Corrales, Hamed.