Thread: Sex before a fight myth!?!?!?! :D

I wish they had chosen another fighter. like a current champ LOL

but might have to do. HEHE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFelcPAe2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg4sTHldr2o

It's kind of ironic that in their test to see if women really do weaken legs they choose a fighter whose legs are already gone

I guess to widen the study and get more balanced view they will test again with Winky Wright, Arturo Gatti and Erik Morales

A couple boys at my club believe this as well. I can't see how it does but he swears it makes him more agressive not having had sex with his girl for a while

It causes your thighs and calves to cramp up if done a day or so before a fight.

Thats a fact.

i was watching the joe louis special on hbo and they blamed his loss to max the first time around to fooling around with that blonde dancer the night before?

Mae West?

Cool test, but anyone who has taken a Psychology course knows that the results really can't be taken as fact because the test was not controlled, the test subject had a result already in his mind. He openly said that he WANTED to disprove the myth, so you gotta take this with a grain of salt.

One thing that's always suprised me about this myth is that almost every boxer accepts it as fact. It's almost like a superstition with them.

Now never having boxed I can't speak from any experience as to whether it does weaken your legs or not but I'm suprised there arn't loads of boxers who make a point of having sex the day before, or even the day of a fight in order to show how confident they are and that they don't believe in superstition.

If I was a world class boxer, I'd be like Paul Hunter the now sadly departed snooker player and boast about how I had sex in the dressing room an hour before the fight!

Then go into the ring with a big grin and the confident stare of a man who knows he doesn't worry about stupid myths and superstitions, even if there's some validity to them.

In effect you'd be saying 'I'm so confident of beating you I don't need to deny myself, I can screw around an hour before the fight and still come in here and kick your ass!'

Now I'm just amazed no boxers ever do that

I mean even if they were lying and actually didnt have sex before, why not just pretend like they did to get a pschological edge?

It definitely stiffens legs, thats for sure.

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

It definitely stiffens legs, thats for sure.

Is it the sex though or the actual physical effort involved?

I mean is it any different from say going for a run the night before a fight, or doing squats?

Do you think it's the actual act of ejaculation that causes the legs to weaken rather than the physical act of sex?

Ejaculation merely makes you lose a small bit of testosterone and some nutrients. Easily replacable.

But the physical movements involved make your thighs stiffen badly

The no sex thing has always been a bit of a myth...more psychological then anything...Though you do have a bit of aggression pent up but more or less due to irritability then anything...

Sex an hour before the fight I can understand the day before..not too sure...I seen then Sport science episode on ESPN...Love how his wife was so casual with it lol

I believe this theory I was told in the amatuers to take 15 days off before a fight.To tell ya the truth I had sex the night before one of my fight's and to me it felt like I was stuck in the mud.My legs were completely gone by the beginning of the 2nd round.As a result it was my only loss.A professional fighters take somewhere around a month.I've heard the great George Foreman say he would take 72 -78 days of no sexin' before his big fights.But for someone like John Conteh he said it was no big deal for him.He would sleep with woman and party to the early hours of the AM before his fight's.

i'm no doctor or anything but after doing the deed, oxytocin is created in your body, which makes you real calm.. hence the book "why do men fall asleep after sex".. obviously we all know that calming feeling, and i know that i don't want to do ANYTHING afterwards but just hang out (well depending on the situation but i have a girlfriend so we'll leave it at "just hang out")..

but if you don't do it for a while then you definitely have more agression, it's just natural.. you know when someone says "DAMN you need to get laid" because the person is all pissed off at everything..

Originally Posted by RP33

i'm no doctor or anything but after doing the deed, oxytocin is created in your body, which makes you real calm.. hence the book "why do men fall asleep after sex".. obviously we all know that calming feeling, and i know that i don't want to do ANYTHING afterwards but just hang out (well depending on the situation but i have a girlfriend so we'll leave it at "just hang out")..

but if you don't do it for a while then you definitely have more agression, it's just natural.. you know when someone says "DAMN you need to get laid" because the person is all pissed off at everything..

Yes it's better to be feelin' mean as hell during a fight (like Clubber Lang). People like that must NEVER get laid.