Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

wow wow wow wow @ that GQ pacquiao piece, amazing

it's shite

imo, like.

I watched the Margarito fight this weekend, my first time watching Manny fight. Manny is amazing! Best technique I've ever seen, I think.

I'm halfway through the fight and it's like jeez, manny has some sort of turbo button in his glove that he pushes when he unleashes a flurry

would not be surprised that manny had the ability to slow time to halfspeed for everyone around him

If you’re a great athlete, but only 5’5” and 125 pounds, your options are pretty limited if you want to make money in sports. Boxing may be your best or even only route.

um

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Soccer's a great sport for guys with low centers of gravity, no?

Nimble attacking players or wing-players are often suited by a fast, low-centred running-style, but players down the core of the pitch or in defence above all must display vast physical stamina and strength to dominate their team's possession and disrupt the other team's. Tiny players can often outmuscled, so in addition to being small, you have got to be either very fast or very strong, preferably both. Many of the most celebrated 'geniuses' of soccer have been small, agile men with lightning feet (footwork is incredibly important in most physical sports), but on the whole, players tend to be quite physically-imposing.

Cricket is a fabulous sport for small men with low centres of gravity, especially ones with quick feet and sharp reflexes.

Do you get (m)any pint-sized NFL players? That sport seems more about the ability to memorise loads and loads of contingencies, be down for a scrap, be fit as hell and be fucking built.

apart from the quartermaster, nfl is about being the best at exercising

but players down the core of the pitch or in defence above all must display vast physical stamina and strength to dominate their team's possession and disrupt the other team's

they dont call it the 'biscan role'

the average for a champions league player would probably be under 6' and 180lbs.....so i dunno about 'quite physically-imposing' compared to say nfl players where the average is about 6'2", 240lbs iirc

anyway, a low /relative/ centre of gravity is useful in just about all sports right?

not swimming surely

'sports'

not ten pin bowling

high jumping

snooker neither

lol quartermaster makes nfl sound like an rpg

slower than rpg iirc

like in boxing a lot of power is generated from the thighs/lower body

turn-based xp

better costumes

in cricket, fast-bowlers derive almost all their power from their lower body, and batsmen generate powerful strokeplay by shifting their whole bodyweight into a shot

cricket fans, gtfo the boxing thread svp

cricket and boxing are incredibly similar tho, this is the hand of friendship u spurn :(

Do you get (m)any pint-sized NFL players? That sport seems more about the ability to memorise loads and loads of contingencies, be down for a scrap, be fit as hell and be fucking built.

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

There are positions where being short can be a real advantage, but those guys tend to be built really thick too - a running back is better off being on the short side than being too tall (imo), but you want him to have a thick butt and thighs. Defensive backs tend to be short and slighter of build, but that's because speed and fluidity of movement are prized - length/height are great if you can get it, but not at the expense of movement skills and footwork.

like in boxing a lot of power is generated from the thighs/lower body

― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

its all about the hips imo

xp that's very rude mr. aerosmith!

I said please!

can I just say again: footwork. footwork footwork footwork. the bedrock upon which cricket and boxing are founded (arguably more so than soccer, which is more about general movement, territorial whereabouts of the whole player, at least until you get to the top level, where a bit of nifty footwork comes in very handy)

defensive backs are the ones who have to intercept incoming runners who r jinking this way n that, and running backs are running with the ppl bursting forward to try and leap for the ball, right?

running backs are the 5'10, 220lb dudes who carry the ball

defensive backs are the nimble dudes who intercept passes/runners

balance in football is crucially under-rated, an i thing that 'touch' gotta come under footwork too, so imma disagree with you riht there you carzy bastid. it's not called 'footbox' is it?

fucking cable

Defensive backs (defense) mostly defend forward passes, running backs (offense) are given the ball and then run forward with it with the intention of scoring.

ah so running backs are explosive, hard to knock over etc

think i got the def back in one tho

running backs are running with the ppl bursting forward to try and leap for the ball, right?

these are wide receivers i think

'touch' is foot to ball interface, for me 'footwork' is specifically foot-body-ground interface

stop it

and balance is a whole-body thing

haha

lol

i think lj is on the verge of a breakthrough here

they are all good points, pity they dont count for shit on a boxing thread.

aw I always like the kumbaya vibe of these cross-cultural sports convos. We're ~learning about each other~!

damn right

aco/aero, bytcha$$ of ilxberry, full 12 rounds to follow pending license

dude always promised savage beatdowns, but what he doesn't suspect is my secret weapon - a cricket bat

btw I am a firm believer in all sports being good, worthy and exciting, with one (1) exception, but I am not going to say what it is - other than that, I find it petty and excruciating that ppl display their ignorance by slagging off an entire sport which probably relates a lot to sports they like but with a funky twist

dude always promised savage beatdowns,

fake football gtfo of a boxing thread!

with one (1) exception,

man the fuck up- it's baseball