Boxing...How do they do it??

~max~ | 01:09 Mon 08th Sep 2008 | ChatterBank

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I'm watching Cinderella man, with Russell Crowe, and I can't believe neither of them are knocked out by some of those punches!!! Do some people have an incredibly high pain threshold, or what? I know it's a movie, but I'm sure it's the same in real fights?

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So it's all down to weight/muscle and balance? Put me in there, I'd have been down, and away with the fairies, in the first 5 seconds! lol

rabbitygirl

Max Mr R used to box and is very fussy about the boxing films he watches as they exaggerate the fighting. He often says if you hit someone the way shown they would die...but they just keep getting up. Includes non boxing films too. Of course, a reasonable boxer tries to ensure they dont get hit too much.

His faves include Somebody Up There Likes Me. and The Great White Hope. He loathes the Rocky films.

He is watching Cinderella Man at the mo because he has a phenomenal knowlede of old boxers and is more interested in the technical and personal details of real life boxers.

~max~

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Hi Rabbity! So, does he think it could really happen? Or was it completely faked?

legend_mark5

El tel was a boxer?

I thought he was born lookin like that

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~max~

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Gonna think twice about flirting with Rabbity now eh! lol ;O)

rabbitygirl

actually, you, he was very good. No cauli ears or broken nose. One of the aforementioned 'tries not to get hit too much'!

London and Home Counties Schoolboy Champ! His manager got banned so he gave up at 18 and wishes he hadn't.

No challenges please.

He's getting on a bit now!!!!!!!

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Sure he could give the young 'uns a run for their money though!
I know I'd rather be married to an ex boxer, than say...an ex ice-skater! lol

rabbitygirl

Well max I think he'd say the the right hit would floor you, but what you see in most films is well faked of course. And quite brutally for effect.

Real boxers don't mess about but have a look at a fight and they are quite different from the films.

Even boxers who can take a punch sometimes go down to an unexpected one. Like Amir Khan last night.

Ice.Maiden

Awww......or ballet dancer!

rabbitygirl

Thing is girls, even tho he was a boxer a long time ago, and I rarely take a swipe at him, he still dodges like an 18 year old. Very frustrating.

~max~

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Or ballet dancer...lol Rugby is still my favourite manly sport though!

legend_mark5

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rabbitygirl

His quick reflexes saved his foreman from a crazed worker just about to deliver a hammer blow to his head....

yeah, I know leg, you wouldn't think it of him eh?!!!

Ice.Maiden

I like a man who's all "man". The girls know what I mean. Wouldn't want a 7st. ex. ice skater! Eeuwwww.

rabbitygirl

Actually, I think ice skaters and ballet dancers, male ones, have to be quite strong and muscley icey!

But I know what you mean...

~max~

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Blurgh! Me neither Ice, I think I made that clear when I mentionned Rugby...lol ;O)

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