Does fat make you better at heavyweight

[Haka]

In terms of punching power: coordination/balance, muscle control, emotional make up. Those are the things that matter.

[BodyBagz]

In this decrepit HW era, everything is ass backwards.

[GelfSara]

That's not what I mean. I'm aware that muscles require oxygen-carrying red blood cells while fat does not. If you look at both of my statements, I said that you don't want to be fat, just as you don't want to be a bodybuilder. You don't want to get in the ring with eight percent body fat because it's actually better if you get in the ring with 16 percent body fat or something along those lines. I'm just making general statements. There is no instance where someone has no muscle and all fat, which seems to be what you are implying that I said. Obviously you need muscles to do anything. What you don't need is a lot of muscle because being muscle bound isn't exactly going to make you punch harder and will leave you exhausted much sooner than someone who wasn't muscle bound. I'm referring to physics and its laws. To hit hard, it's more about weight transference than how much you can bench or curl. And to give this context, we saw a muscular Joshua get KO'd by a fat Ruiz. So clearly, the fat guy showed what's more efficient in the ring. When they fought again, Joshua was able to use his size and reach to win. Not his muscles.

Here are some issues with low body fat:

• You Become Prone to Serious Heart Problems. ...
• Your Energy Levels Plummet. ...
• You're Suddenly Always Cold. ...
• Your Workouts Suck. ...
• Your Muscles Don't Recover from Exercise. ...
• You're Constantly Hungry. ...
• Your Testosterone Levels Drop. ...
• Your Muscles Become Weaker.

And if you're too fat, then there are similar issues, such as not having enough muscle to handle the bodyweight, fatigue, sluggishness, etc.

I believe you are missing the principle here.

Generally elite male athletes in their 20-30s have no difficultly making 8% bodyfat without suffering from the kinds of problems listed above; indeed, part of what separates elite athletes from the rest is the ability to achieve low bodyfat percentages without adverse effects.

Both muscle and fat tissue are metabolically active and require "oxygen-carrying red blood cells"; albeit muscle much more so.

I'm not sure what you mean by "muscle bound". "Weight transference" is due to contraction of skeletal muscles. The stronger given muscles are, the stronger those contractions & the less effort required to produce a given submaximal contraction; in other words, increasing strength increases local muscular endurance.

It is certainly possible for muscle to be just as much "dead weight" as excess bodyfat; if a distance runner develops enormous neck, chest, upper back and shoulder muscles they will be at a competitive disadvantage. I assume in discussions of this kind we are referring to development of musculature responsible for offense and defense in the sport of boxing.

[elfag]

Extra Weight can help with Punch Resistance for sure

old fat foreman had an iron jaw while when he was younger he was dropped a few times

[elfag]

Boxing events don't last long enough to deplete glycogen; typically it takes at least 90 minutes of sustained exercise for glycogen-depletion or fat-burning to become a factor.
One can easily become exhausted while still carrying plenty of liver and muscle glycogen by fighting at too fast a pace--as tends to happen when a boxer with relatively poor endurance faces a boxer with much better endurance.

this. also for a while they let them drink gatoraide type drinks inbetween rounds then they complained that when it spilled it made the rings slippery.

idk every other sport can drink sugar/electrolyte mixes. But its still only 45 minutes