Wilder and Fury show you don't need skill or physique

[Earl-Hickey]

Wilder has some of the worst textbook skill around, and Fury has the body compisition of a giant squid, but they have combined to fight for the heavyweight championship and the true #1 spot.

I believe this shows that most of boxing is just down to natural ability and not who your trainer is, what shape you are in etc etc etc

[SinderellaMan]

Exactly.
Good, objective post right there

[Zelda]

Boxing is a mixture of 3 things
- Training to make your body hard in order to be able to take punches
- Training to make your punches hard so they can do damage (and get less damaged in the process)
- The sweet science of hitting and not getting hit.

It doesn't matter how you obtain those three traits...by conventional or unconventional manner, by being able to take and absorb punches or being so agile as to avoid them, by one-shot that will take out your opponent or a combination that will wear away your opponent in time, by intimidating your opponent or by appearing harmless enough to let your opponent let his guards down, etc. One who lacks skills in one dept. has to make up for it in another.

One thing for sure that is completely irrelevant is bodybuilding. For the same reason, wrestlers are not good boxers.

[Spray_resistant]

They're both pretty mediocre compared to past HWs at the top of the division