Boxing music

[Raeder]

Richard Wagner was a great 19th century composer of opera and music dramas. His massive "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (which took him twenty-two years to write both text and music, and consists of four long music dramas) has an especially assertive and rugged score in "Die Walkure," the second of the four. There are three "hauptmotivs" (i.e., themes) which come to mind as training music for pugilists. For the lighter divisions, the music of the "Schwert" (i.e., sword); for middleweights, cruiserweights and lightheavyweights, the "Ride of the Walkyries" (with extra trombones, of course) and for heavyweights, "Hunding the Hunter's brutal music." Laugh at classical music, fellas? If fighters could reach a boxing level equivalent to Richard Wagner's revolutionary compositional techniques, they would be unstoppable; too smart, too strong and discliplined. Whoa, it may be coming from Eastern Europe!

i can honestly say i didnt expect anyone to come up with that...lol
whatever does it for ya i guess man , that youre type of music or you jus train to it?

Really didn't know the music of the Leipzig Master when I boxed, but later thought about very masculine, thunderous, complex harmonically, tonally and strong music and, BOOM Wagner is it. Most current music is amplified by electronics, not natural acoustics in large halls like Wagner's. I take your comment as a compliment for what you said though, and I am not fishing for one. Most mention a group, or "pop" style, but the classics are balls on for sure. Remember, pull the plug and those "singers" and instrumentalists could not be heard past the first row. A boxer is out there with most of his clothes off and no one there in the ring to help him; that takes courage. Bill Conti's score for "Rocky I" was mostly a medium-sized "classical" orchestra, even for the tender scenes and "Philadelphia Morning." Conti deserved the academy award he got, and he would be the first to thank Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner!