Which Pro Athlete is more physically fit and trains harder?

[New England]

trains harder?

if you compared the top 400 boxers in the world to the NBA, i don't think there'd be much of a contest. most of the top 400 in boxing would be guys with day jobs. try and hash out a top 400 p4p list. do you even know 400 active boxers?


a guy with a day job isn't going to train as hard as a professional basketball player in the NBA. he can't.


now, if you want to talk about top shelf boxers, then i don't think there's a contest. when they're in shape, world class boxers are the most fit people on the planet. you can flop around on the ground fi you've got a cramp in the NBA. if you get a cramp in boxing and start to flop around you will lose.

nobody trains harder for those 12ish weeks a top boxer preparing for a championship level fight. no other athlete conditions his body for that kind of punishment.

[Calabis]

Anyone ever notice that boxers play basketball to relax and basketball players hit the boxing gym to train hard, just something I noticed.

What does that have to do with athleticism? Boxers play basketball against weekend warriors. Here take it this way, there isnt one boxer in the world that can make a NBA team....but I damn sure bet a NBA guy could become a professional boxer(Kendall Gill proved this..win or lose)...a boxer cant even make d-league.

[Calabis]

Where in my post did I say NBA players "train harder"? Boxers train 2-3 months for one fight while NBA players train for 60+ games, its a fact. Were talking about who is more athletically tuned not who trains harder and IMO an NBA player takes the seat. "show me any boxer that is 6'8 250lbs, runs a 4.5 40 with a 40+ inch vertical leap," Calabis. Can you even read?

They took ur response about athleticism and are trying to make it about "physical training" now....wow

[New England]

I'd argue that as a whole the NBA guys are the more freakishly athletic. Boxing is more on the endurance end of the spectrum while basketball is more short burst athleticism. The boxers are obviously more durable and have better endurance, it also requires insane types of mental discipline. Additionally, while there is no doubt that boxers train harder just by the nature of the sport...the amount of hours guys spend in the gym working on their shots would outnumber the amount of time boxers spend in the gym by quite a lot.

As for the who is more physically fit? Who are the most out of shape basketball players in recent memory? Glen Davis, late-30s Shaq, 42 year old Patrick Ewing drenched in sweat by the middle of the first? Compare that to boxing where three-fourths of the cruiser and heavy divisions are jiggling away. You even see guys around 160 and 168 looking fat as hell sometimes. I'd say that to compete at the NBA level, what the athletic trainers will have those guys doing makes them more physically fit. These kids come out of college as twigs and by their sop****re years in the NBA they've put 20 pounds of muscle on.

Just a really bad comparison to begin with. Two entirely different types of demanding sports in terms of training time.

nice post. makes me want to make my way down to 200 lbs and make a run for a world title at cruiserweight.

the 400th ranked boxer in any division is a pro athlete in name only. comparing what he does to condition his body to anybody on an NBA roster is silly.


on the bold, you're talking about the *cough* program. i'm sure you give similar stuff to your horsies to make them run faster

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trains harder?

if you compared the top 400 boxers in the world to the NBA, i don't think there'd be much of a contest. most of the top 400 in boxing would be guys with day jobs. try and hash out a top 400 p4p list. do you even know 400 active boxers?

Wanna rethink your math? There are 17 divisions in boxing, so even if we skim the top 24 fighters in each division we get a roster of 408.

As of 2015 there are 447 main-roster players in the NBA.

Perhaps a few of those who fight in divisions that aren't popular in their country have some secondary income stream but "most have day jobs" is just a ****** statement.

You could say most of the top 400 in a single division have day jobs.

[SplitSecond]

You can be lazy in basketball, it's low intensity too, the short bursts are far and few between. Basketball like soccer are sports we all grow up playing, and I've played both for hours straight(about 5 hours with soccer as a kid).

[Lords]

Dont go in damage control now you dumb turd. lol

Damage control for what? You accusing me of saying something I didn't, It's not my fault you and loma are dumb***s who can't read.