Weight can be such an extreme determinative factor in combat sports that an untrained 250-pound couch potato could walk into any boxing gym and absolutely demolish a 100-pound opponent with decades of training.
I think this is kind of beside the point, but is this really true?
I buy that it conceptually could be the case for some small number of people, but I would have expected most 100-pound opponents with decades of training to beat untrained 250-lb couch potatoes (all it seems to take is one or two good punches against someone who doesn’t know how to defend themself). Maybe I’m mistaken?
(PS—I laughed at the “Classic ostrich-and-egg problem” line!)
I’ve never boxed but I have a few years of Jiu Jitsu and even more of wrestling. A couch potato wouldn’t beat a trained fighter, but a 250 pound man of stocky build, medium talent and maybe two or three years of training probably couldn’t be knocked out by any 100 pound man in the world, and would probably win if he were lucky enough to land a good punch.
I think this is kind of beside the point, but is this really true?
I buy that it conceptually could be the case for some small number of people, but I would have expected most 100-pound opponents with decades of training to beat untrained 250-lb couch potatoes (all it seems to take is one or two good punches against someone who doesn’t know how to defend themself). Maybe I’m mistaken?
(PS—I laughed at the “Classic ostrich-and-egg problem” line!)
I’ve never boxed but I have a few years of Jiu Jitsu and even more of wrestling. A couch potato wouldn’t beat a trained fighter, but a 250 pound man of stocky build, medium talent and maybe two or three years of training probably couldn’t be knocked out by any 100 pound man in the world, and would probably win if he were lucky enough to land a good punch.