Boxing useless in a Bar Brawl?

[Mr. Ryan]

If you can punch, you can fight.

[mistahay0]

Ya I think if you were trained right and could punch you could take out guys well over your weight and taller. Even if its in the streets or anywhere else.

[deh707]

Ok, we have to be considering 1 on 1 fights here. I'm not talking about mismatches. If you are fighting 3 people by yourself, then theres no possible way you will have an advantage even if you are a world champion boxer.

a world champion boxer vs 3 people.........

lets say the world champ is mayweather in this case.

i can picture him running away/in circles until the 3 guys are tired. then he treats them like walking heavybags.

i guess any boxer who is well conditioned can do that. unless they had a gun.

[Brockton Lip]

a world champion boxer vs 3 people.........

lets say the world champ is mayweather in this case.

i can picture him running away/in circles until the 3 guys are tired. then he treats them like walking heavybags.

i guess any boxer who is well conditioned can do that. unless they had a gun.

Mayweather is going to circle and run away from 3 225 pound men in a very small area? And what happens when he punches and hurts his hand?

Boxing will help, but not as much as people are saying, at least not in a bar. But style also comes into play.

[eazy_mas]

i think yes boxing could help you because you are fit mentally and physically to fight.

here is a fact boxing is one of the tools to fight it how you use it that matters.

i will have and advantge of handspedd and coutering there punchs but many wont

[abdiel2k3]

conventional boxing "jab stick n move" might be odd ti see
but it could work
when ive gotten into fights
i dont try to box
but i def use what ive learned to get an advantage
main thing
most people dont know how to throw a punch right
proper and to wide
second i move back make pay for swing wide
then when they try to wrestle go for a hug
short quick punches to prevent from huggin
but if the end up hugg/grappling
dig punches to body and side
my opinion
boxing comes in handy

[Banderivets]

Dunno, the most effective has always been a side kick 'CroCop style' to the head. It will lay anyone out and no one expects it.

And sure boxing is usefull, just about any boxer any weight class knows how to punch, and that means a lot.

[leow]

no body other then crocop can kick like this... in street clothes its hard to lift up your leg like this plus with shoes you wouldn't get the good rotation...
the only good techniques other than boxing would be like some muay thai stuff knees and bows all the short range attacks

[coreywash]

Knowing boxing in a bar brawl is well...minimal benefit at best.

People don't square up and circle each other in bar brawls...You're not gonna be sticking and moving and jabbing. When **** goes down in the bar or club, people are out manhandle each other. Add that with the fact that theres so many distractions including people, objects, music, dark light etc. Its an entirely different element.

I can tell u from experience...Ive boxed thousands of rounds in the ring. And the last time I got in to a bar brawl, I used next to nothing that I've learned. I was just throwing wicked blows and fighting with killer instinct and little else. Granted I was fighting 5 guys by myself, and I still stood there and tried to trade with all of them...Wasn't the smartest idea granted the way my face looked the next day. Had I thought of boxing though, I would have covered up tight and shot right hands from a defensive guard at least. I guess Winky would probably survive a jumping with just a few scratches.

prolly so cause winky use that turtle shell

[hemichromis]

Hello my fellow boxers!

I read a post in another forum that claimed that boxing would be useless is a bar brawl. I just wanted to know what you all thought of this concept.

so this was from a TKD page was it? or karate?

alot of these martial arts discount boxing under the philosophy that 'more is better'. this is obviously very wrong

in the average bar fight you will be somewhere between 1 and 2.5 feet from you opponent. this is too close to kick and is the most effective range of boxing.

grappling is effective but in abar where the opponent could have friends or there could be glass on the floor so again boxing rang is best.

in boxing you train to punch hard and even more critically; how to take a punch.
I have spent alot of time studying street defense and IMHO you must learn to hit hard, fast and accurately and you should be able to take a punch. these are taught best by boxing.Everything else is ancillary