Quote Originally Posted by DD
Quote Originally Posted by Mr.B
Quote Originally Posted by Ranger
with size you get sluggish
Muscle is what makes you move, and the more of it you have, the more powerful it is.
Bulls***.

Bodybuilder's carry more muscle than anybody else on Earth and we all know that they can hardly stand up, let alone burst into a sprint.

Plyometric's and Olympic Lifting builds speed and power, not Bodybuilding (Bodybuilding is just image not performance!).
Somehow I knew somebody was going to completely take my comments out of context... If you read my post, nowhere did I mention anything about body building or olympic lifting. And a "heavyweight" bodybuilder or Olympic powerlifter is very different than a heavyweight boxer. And if you lookeven closer, you'll see that I was talking about being "a little on the bulky side". And then, to further clarify that I was NOT talking about extremes (like a 350 pound beast that can barely bend his knees like Bob Sapp), I even went as far as to mention a reasonable weight which was 225 pounds. That's around Tyson's average fighting weight in his prime and I think most would agree his hands were pretty fast.

I'd say that a 225 pound fighter with proper training could give most lightweights a run for their money in terms of speed and I bet he could take a punch from a lightweight better than the lightweight could from him.