Mayweather Should Roll / Half Guard

Interesting training video.

Marciano v Walcott I -- The KNOCKOUT

Arguably the greatest knock out in boxing history.

Mike Tyson's Foot Speed

Outrageous footspeed displayed at 7:10

Cus D'Amato on Fighters Getting Tired

"When two men are fighting, what you're watching is more a contest of wills than of skills, with the stronger will usually overcoming the skill. The skill will prevail only when it is so superior to the other man's skill that the will is not tested.... As many times as you see a fellow get tired in the course of a fight, note that he gets tired when pressure builds up, after he gets hurt or he's been in some kind of doubtful situration, not being able to control the situation. That's when he starts getting tired. That's why when two good fighters get to fight, they're head to head, so to speak, they won't give an inch and they're using all their skill and ability, until maybe about the seventh or eighth or ninth round, one fighter starts to visibly weaken. It only means he's reached a point where he no longer can stand the pressure. He's now become dominated, because when two people fight it's very much like two armiers. They seek to impose their will on one another."

"When the novice throws punches an nothing happens, and his opponent keeps coming at him ... the new fighter becomes panicky. When he gets panicky he wants to quit, but he can't quit because his who psychology from the time he's first been in the streets is to condemn a person who's yellow. So what does he do? He gets tired. This is what happens to fighters in the ring. They get tired, because they're getting afraid ... Now that he gets tired, people can't call him yellow. He's just too "tired" to gon on. But let that same fighter strike back wildly with a visible effect on the opponent and suddenly that tired, exhausted guy becomes a tiger. ... It's a psychological fatigue, that's all it is, but people in boxing don't understand that."

From Bad Intentions

Pacquiao and Steroids

Now people are saying that the Pacman is on steroids. His rise up the boxing weights is remarkable but why would he need steroids to do so? He started boxing in his mid-teens, obviously his body would fill out. The new argument is that he's put on 20 pounds of muscle in two years while keeping his tone.

What would be interesting to know -- and I don't have the time for the research -- is how hard was it for him to make weight for his Featherweight and Super Featherweight. We could tell a little bit by how much he rehydrated after the weigh-in. If I remember he has not being "gaining" weight after his recent weigh-ins at welterweight.

I don't see steroid use as a means of putting on muscle but I do see it as a means to recuperate faster after training; this would allow Manny Pacquiao to train harder and train more frequently. Is this being done? Maybe.

EDIT 12/17/2009

There's a great article dealing with just this at The Boxing Truth

"This Should be Stopped"

I'm coming up with a list of boxing comebacks. Too often I hear "this should be stopped" and we're only in the first round. So here's the beginning of this list.

David Haye v Carl Thompson


The last round btwn Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo.

Is modern man less robust than our ancestors?

This anthropologist thinks so.

Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.

Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.

Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.

These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled "Manthropology" and provocatively sub-titled "The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male."

Have to get the book.