Why do 99% of boxers have perfectly sculpted pecs but no thick neck?

[ИATAS]

How good is this guys chin?

[edgarg]

T'd say that every boxer's neck is more muscular than before he began to train intensively. It's surely obvious that this must be so. So without measuring a neck before the real exercise begins, how could you be so certain. Common sense says differently.

As for chest muscles, they are vital or else the boxer is going to crumple after a body attack. Muscles protect the sternum and absorb concussions. Otherwise your heart rhythm could be affected by a heavy blow. You'd drop.

The doctors who attended to Cleveland Williams after being shot at point-blank range in the stomach said that the 6 inches of muscle saved his life. . As it was, he lost a kidney and a few other organs, as well as 10 feet of intestine, and got a semi-paralysed leg. He died on the operating table a couple of times, and was in hospital 6 months. It was felt he woul never fight again.

{After rehabilitation he went into training again with a couple of easy fights, tune ups preparing for Mohammed Ali. This is regarded as Ali's best and most perfect fight. I'll never kniw why.......}

Front body muscle for a boer is very important.

I basically agree with NEW ENGLAND's last sentence.

[Unknown Champ]

How good is this guys chin?

haha i think it was more a "I don't like to get hit" thing w this guy.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Training to get a thick neck means bulky shoulder and traps and thats not good for boxing. Some of the guys with the best chins ever have naturally big necks(Hector Camacho, James Toney) which is fine but its def not the end all be all.

[Jloro]

Your chest muscles arnt gonna do bugger all for you, they barely add to punching power or help in the clinch. They might look nice if you are a gay man but thats about it.

Yet every boxer I see practiacally, especially the ones that weight train have highly muscled bodies but their neck has barely changed in size at all.

Every boxer does countless abdominal exercises yet they do relitively few sets and reps for neck exercises.

Your neck helps you take a shot, look at Tysons neck, thats what every heavyweights neck should look like. Its not that hard to get a thick neck wrestlers do it more often than boxers.

In order of importance in boxing.....

1 skill

2 the ability to take a shot to the body OR THE HEAD

3 endurance

4 power

5 strength

6 pretty looking muscles

Lol only gay men can have chest muscles? Some people like to be strong and be a boxer :O

[AlexKid]

How good is this guys chin?

Very ***** good, took the hardest puncher in MMAs shots well despite no skill in striking defence and the small goves, like many wrestlers in MMA they can take a shot well! Due to superior neck conditioning.

You would have thought boxers would have put just as much emphasis on neck work as wrestlers or NFL guys do, but not many do.

The ability to asorb punishment is more important in boxing than being able to dish it out, its more important than endurance (if you are KOed you dont get to the later rounds), in my opinion you should work your neck as often as you work your abs which is alot, and more than you do push ups or bench pressing.

Its just bizare that something so important is not prioritised as highly as say heavy bag work abdominal work and back muscle work.

[New England]

How good is this guys chin?

Better than a pencil necked flyweight

[hectari]

Your chest muscles arnt gonna do bugger all for you, they barely add to punching power or help in the clinch. They might look nice if you are a gay man but thats about it.

Yet every boxer I see practiacally, especially the ones that weight train have highly muscled bodies but their neck has barely changed in size at all.

Every boxer does countless abdominal exercises yet they do relitively few sets and reps for neck exercises.

Your neck helps you take a shot, look at Tysons neck, thats what every heavyweights neck should look like. Its not that hard to get a thick neck wrestlers do it more often than boxers.

In order of importance in boxing.....

1 skill

2 the ability to take a shot to the body OR THE HEAD

3 endurance

4 power

5 strength

6 pretty looking muscles

When you punch a punching bag you work your back muscles, lats, triceps, and chest and shoulders. I remember doing a speed punch out drill intervals no push ups no pull ups, I did 1 minute on 25 second rest for sets. The next morning after doing punch drills my chest was sore, my shoulders were sore, my mid back was sore and my lats were sore.

Thats why they have chest muscles like that as well as thick backs from punching a lot whether its shadow boxing, speed bag, heavy bag, mitt work, double end bag.

There are a few boxers with thick necks but they did neck bridges like the old school boxers used to do Evander and Tyson come to mind. Boxers have abandoned doing neck bridges or rolls maybe because it was too dangerous?

[hectari]

Shed loads of boxers past & present with thick necks.

Tyson, Holyfield, Tua, RJJ, James Toney, Gamboa, Pascal etc etc

Its probably least noticeable in the lower weights as its going to be awfully hard for a guy say below 154 to have prominent traps/a noticeably thick neck.

Also a bigger muscle isn't always a stronger muscle.

RJJ doesn't have a thick neck he had thick traps and a tiny head

this is a thick neck

[Daddy T]

take a decent wallop on the temple and I don't care if you have a neck like a blue whale on steroids, you're hitting the canvas