What if Michael Phelps had been a boxer?

[yngwie]

Besides boxing being such a tough sport, most athletic fighters aren't in boxing, you take a kid to pick a sport and any kid wants to get punched in the face, most of the guys are in boxing for help, they need get out of the street or just want a lonely sport to fight themselves and their demons, this girl who destroyed that record on swimming, her dad is a millionare graduated from harvard i believe, you would never see something like that in boxing, only Shumenov, but he sucks.

[1g5a22]

There are no black guys in swimming.

Maybey because they can't swim as good as white people. I guess you are going to argue I am wrong? Ok.. Show me the black Phelps & Dara Torres?

Lets get it right folks.. Swimming is IN THE WATER. The water resistance is much worse than air resistance. Phelps>Bolt. Also Phelps has mastered the Butterfly, individual medley, freestyle & backstroke! That's like Bolt triple jumping & hurdling too! Phelps has way more technicalities to master than just running! Beyond that, running is a much more intuitive sport from a technical perspective. Even if you're not perfect, you know how to run at a basic level. Swimming times considered even close to competitive require a much more practiced technique. I'm sorry but 21 golds over FIVE Olympics in various disciplines! Come on now.. Embrace it & learn to deal with it

Greatest Olympian ever!

[Pain~Lucy]

The guy is athletic plus ADHD, he's an ATG potential

[Pain~Lucy]

he's black and he's fat

[MisterPullman]

Swimmers aren't good athletes. Most people that join swimming do it because they suck so bad at other sports. It's not a particularly skilled sport.

That's why I shake my head when people say he's the greatest athlete ever. You can't be a swimmer and be the greatest athlete ever. It's not a skilled sport. As far as being naturally gifted, that goes to Usain Bolt.

He wouldn't make it as a boxer.

By far your most ******ed post I've ever seen. Dumb as ****k

[MisterPullman]

F#ck swimming & all the made up events they have. Floyd, Sugar Ray, Zou Shiming & Mark Breland & a bunch of guys would have 10+ Olympic medals if they had as many dumbass boxing events. 1 round fight event, 2 round fight event, 3 round fight event, headgear, no headgear, jab event, hook event, uppercut event, hardest puncher event. F#ck Phelps & f#ck that hairy ass mfer from the 70's or whenever who's record he broke cuz swimming has a ton of bs ass medals. He'd be KO'd in 2 & retire. That riverdance mfer who fancied himself a boxer back in the day would Mike Tyson this bong water momo.

Floyd didn't win gold medal haha

I hate you Michael Phelps! You make my heroes look bad : (

[1g5a22]

What if Michael Phelps was black?

[mick1303]

Those long arms and giant hands would be amazing for a boxer.

The most concussive KO artists have small fists. It is a pure physics... The pressure is distributed per surface. If contact surface is smaller, the pressure in the impact zone is higher. Which is why some smaller weight fighters sometimes "hurt opponents more than heavyweights".

[mick1303]

If Phelps had been a boxer he would have fared just as fine.. The core of all elite athletes have been hard work, dedication & improving on their skills every time.. Every elite boxer had the same qualities, so I recon he would have gotten just fine.. Really hard to predict how he would box like though : lol1:
He would be more suited to less to CW & more to HW I recon..

In addition to stamina and brute strength boxing requires a keen sense of distance and hand-eye coordination. I think the sports which highly rely on reflexes may produce high-level boxers. For instance tennis and badminton. And top level tennis players have also very good stamina and speed. Not to mention that tennis is also one-on-one competition where you have to be stronger than your opponent psychologically. I think someone like Rafael Nadal could be quite an accomplished fighter. Or Djokovic.

[Eff Pandas]

Floyd didn't win gold medal haha

I hate you Michael Phelps! You make my heroes look bad : (

Where did I say Floyd did win a gold medal momo?

I'm just saying if boxers had as many different event categories as swimming boxers would have loaded trophy cases too. I mean ffs swimming is swimming. You don't need to break it up into 40+ different swimming events. Thats f#cking ******ed.