The Biggest Myths in Boxing

[guzi815]

If you're going to throw big names out there that Ali fought I would leave Leon Spinks out.

He only had 7 pro fights before he fought Ali. Can you picture anyone getting a world title fight when they've only fought professionally 7 times??

He had many other great names but Neon Leon Spinks isn't one of them. http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...=262&cat=boxer

yeah, your right man, but Leon Spinks in only his 8th Professional fight defeated Ali ( the first time) and of course Ali beat him in the rematch.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

There's a few things you guys are missing. First off, when rating a fighter, you must rate him according tohis era and the competition he had. Therefor, you can make an argument that Ali was the greatest of all time. I personally think he was the greatest Heavyweight but not the greatest fighter of all time.

People that spend alot more time in the boxing world have agreed with this. People that were ex-fighters, trainers, promotors ect. Boxing historians and "experts" agree with this premis.

Ali changed the face of boxing forever, he showed you don't have to stand in on place and trade like a gorilla in order to be a great fighter. He introduced fighting styles that changed the way trainers taught their fighters.

The fact that George Forman could come back at the age of 44 and win the title shows how dominant Foreman was in his prime and Ali destroyed him. To say that Ali was a welterweight or lightheavy weight with a crappy jab is an insult to the game and an insult to the intelligence of the boxing community.

Ali was hyped up because of what he did out of the ring and his charisma no doubt but let's not forget none of that would have been even noticed if he didn't accomplish the things he did IN the ring.


My biggest myth in boxing is that Julio Cesar Chavez and Mike Tyson were nothing but brawlers. Both were very good boxers, Chavez being a great boxer

[Feint]

Here are a couple of myths that I can’t stand:

1. Foreman and Tarver claiming their water was drugged. It’s one thing to make poor excuses for why you lost a fight but that is just embarrassing.

2. Sonny Liston was one of the greatest Heavyweights ever. Liston was involved with the mafia (both common knowledge and which he himself later admitted to) and because of that we will never know how much of his career was a result of his actual talent and how much of it mirrored Primo Carnera’s.

[nmuburner22]

that pacman is p4p number 1....LMAO.

[mrpain81]

1. Boxing is Dying

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Yes Ali was the greatest HWY of all time

Yes the Beatles are the greatest Band of alltime

No 95% of street fights dont go to the ground

[Feint]

A couple of training myths as well:

1. You should not drink water while training because your body needs to get used to not having it. *

Not only is this incorrect, it’s dangerous. A human body does not “get used to” not having fluid in it. Being dehydrated is being dehydrated, and all it will do is detract from your ability to perform.

2. Lifting weights is a bad idea for a boxer.

Yeah, yeah, this falsehood was bantered about in baseball for many years as well until all the homerun records fell due to the increase of muscle, natural or otherwise. Your body does not know the difference between a push-up and a free weight. Any resistance breaks down muscle and your body builds it back up, only bigger and stronger. In actuality, free-weights often a better tool for resistance than body weight is. I’m not putting down push-ups because I think they are still a great training technique but doing dumb-bell presses both mimic and better address the muscles required in throwing a punch a heck of a lot better than push-ups do.

* Don’t confuse this with having too much water can hurt you in the ring, because that is in fact true. Not only are you in danger of getting a cramp but a clean body punch could bring all that fluid up.

[Feint]

1. Boxing is Dying

This is a great one. I think we can all agree that this is a myth.

[tills9191]

''Klitchsko will lose to Mayweather''
That is the biggest myth in boxing.
Mayweather by TKO 10th round.

[slicksouthpaw16]

That if you learn boxing you can always win street fights.

Fact is, 95% of street fights end up on the GROUND.

i kinda disagree. if yall are just standing up and throwing hands, the person who knows boxing will win easily. but if its on the ground, you wont be as successfull unless you learn MMA.

[Dorian]

Mayweather "runs"