Is it possible for me to become faster than Sugar Ray Leonard?

**team porter-mcfarren** · 08-01-2006 11:32 PM

i would have to agree with all this. i worked my @ss off trying to be "the fastest" i got faster but i still coudnt get faster than all the black guys in my weight class. ill tell you though if i land a straight or a hook there arent to many people that i have boxed that dont fall back on it. anyway..... you might be able to be as fast but why would you want to be as fast? why not faster?? there is no team in boxing. YOU are the only person trying to better yourself. work hard and be faster than srl. best of luck!

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**Andre** · 08-02-2006 04:07 AM

Postition can beat speed .Exact ringcraft .IF you know where to be,how to get there safley and the reason you need to be at a certain position in relation to where he want you to be; then the faster isnt going to able to touch you with as much power anyway and you will have him off sided and turning to find where your at constantly, which will slow him up even if he is naturaly faster. Position/distance/engagment or disengament or control over one or the other of the two sides to a fighter.
Putting questions into a fighters head that are not there when he is having the fight his own way, by control over his balance points and gaining the advantage position will slow anyones game .Pain will slow him too if you make him pay for the time the question popped in. Key is to exploit his position and his style with your natural abilites.
You just have to know them before you can put them into practice.

**Greig** · 07-23-2008 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by Andre

Postition can beat speed .Exact ringcraft .IF you know where to be,how to get there safley and the reason you need to be at a certain position in relation to where he want you to be; then the faster isnt going to able to touch you with as much power anyway and you will have him off sided and turning to find where your at constantly, which will slow him up even if he is naturaly faster. Position/distance/engagment or disengament or control over one or the other of the two sides to a fighter.
Putting questions into a fighters head that are not there when he is having the fight his own way, by control over his balance points and gaining the advantage position will slow anyones game .Pain will slow him too if you make him pay for the time the question popped in. Key is to exploit his position and his style with your natural abilites.
You just have to know them before you can put them into practice.

That to me is the key to boxing, at this stage anyway.

Last night at the gym I did a couple of rounds with a tricky southpaw who usually gives me big problems - he's stronger and faster than me, with pretty good technique. I've tried a few things that haven't worked, his right jab is quick and hard so I have a hard time reading it, let alone countering.

Last night,I started stepping back just slightly as he was shaping up with it and countered with a stiff left hook. Three times this happened and, all of a sudden, he wasn't game to do the same thing that had always worked before for him. I had leveled the playing field by putting doubt into his mind. He still won the rounds by being busier, but I looked heaps better than I have done against him.

Hemingway once wrote that boxing is the most honest conversation two men can have, but I don't think old Ernie ever laced them up. It seems to me boxing is like chess or high stakes poker - the bluff is just as important. That doubt that Andre talks about is so important. Without it, you just have that Buddy McGirt/Howard Davis fight that was on this board a while back - annihilation.

**bigragu** · 08-02-2006 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by The_One77

If i bust my a** and train constantly on my handspeed, can i do it?
I'm white btw

it's all about genetics......I'll never run a sub 10 second 100m...even with steroids.....but as far as hand speed goes the more relaxed you are the faster you will throw......not as fast as sugar ray....maybe 75-80% though....maybe more...it's all up to your genetics...if not, blame your parents....if you can, it's because of all your hard work!!!!!!!!!