Is the neck area the boxers achilles heel?

[ACHlLLES]

I noticed when ever I hurt my neck area, the rest of my body feels really weak taking away from my punching power alot. Like the other day I jogged with my neck tilting back way too far and I paid the price later that day. My neck is in extreme pain and my upper body is really sore from it... I can't even throw with conviction anymore... Now this got me thinking, either I have a weird body or our bodies are very similar and if another boxer attacks the neck region of a boxer will it effect that boxers power?

[markeeta]

I noticed when ever I hurt my neck area, the rest of my body feels really weak taking away from my punching power alot. Like the other day I jogged with my neck tilting back way too far and I paid the price later that day. My neck is in extreme pain and my upper body is really sore from it... I can't even throw with conviction anymore... Now this got me thinking, either I have a weird body or our bodies are very similar and if another boxer attacks the neck region of a boxer will it effect that boxers power?

Your neck connects your brain with the rest of your body, so if you stuff that up other things just won't work properly. I posted a few days back about hurting my neck in sparring, and this was one of the reasons I was worried.

[peewee1460]

I posted a few days back about hurting my neck in sparring, and this was one of the reasons I was worried.

sparring? i sparred today! i sparred three rounds with the black guy in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qQjZxPJK8

he only landed 5 or 6 times but something gives me the aching su****ion that he might have been holding back just a hair....

[Alexis Vastine]

Looks like a club fight. That white dude was a bum and a slaphead!

[peewee1460]

That white dude was a bum and a slaphead

he was the very definition of a bum. he had like sixty fights and lost like forty of them. one guy from our gym, gundrich king, had already fought him and knocked him out in the first round too.

[Trrmo]

sparring? i sparred today! i sparred three rounds with the black guy in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qQjZxPJK8

he only landed 5 or 6 times but something gives me the aching su****ion that he might have been holding back just a hair....

That guy looks pretty good, obvious mismatch though. How did your sparring go with him? is he your weight? if he is I would see if you could get more sparring and you will sharpen up real quick.How many fights have you had Peewee?

and about the neck - what Markeeta said.

[peewee1460]

he fights at middleweight, but when we sparred he had about fourty pounds on me. the sparring was good defense work for me (because i couldn't land a punch) because he only landed about three or four jabs and one right hand. one of the jabs busted my nose and made it swell up pretty bad. he busted it on tuesday in the first round and i've sparred every day since then so i'm hurting.