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What would happen if I fought a featherweight boxer? (1 Viewer)

'NewlyRetired said:
This has to be shtick right?

No one of any intelligence would consider a feather weight to be only 5 feet. Most are in the 5'5 range and typically train in the 130-140 pound range and then cut weight before the fight and put it almost all right back on again by fight time.
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Odd - i have been working on the idea of a featherweight, by definition, weighing no more than 126lbs. If you have issues with the intelligence level of the people who set the parameters for a weight class, take it up with them? :lol: I believe somewhere in this thread I was accepting 5'3"... consistent with the 12 inch height advantage my claim was based on.

Aside from those misses, you have hit on the best part about this thread.

A four year, 14 page long thread where people tell me I have no chance against an apparently fictitious foe. The non existent tiny guy has become immortal to any possible advantage I may have.

 
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'matuski said:
'NewlyRetired said:
This has to be shtick right?

No one of any intelligence would consider a feather weight to be only 5 feet. Most are in the 5'5 range and typically train in the 130-140 pound range and then cut weight before the fight and put it almost all right back on again by fight time.
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Odd - i have been working on the idea of a featherweight, by definition, weighing no more than 126lbs. If you have issues with the intelligence level of the people who set the parameters for a weight class, take it up with them? :lol:
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I think you have a huge level of ignorance about what "making weight" means. You must not follow the fight business at all from your posts. You seem to think a featherweight enters the ring of his fight under 126. That almost never happens. Almost every fighter cuts weight for the weigh in and then puts most of it immediately back on by the time the fight starts.

 
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'NewlyRetired said:
'matuski said:
'NewlyRetired said:
This has to be shtick right?

No one of any intelligence would consider a feather weight to be only 5 feet. Most are in the 5'5 range and typically train in the 130-140 pound range and then cut weight before the fight and put it almost all right back on again by fight time.
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Odd - i have been working on the idea of a featherweight, by definition, weighing no more than 126lbs. If you have issues with the intelligence level of the people who set the parameters for a weight class, take it up with them? :lol:
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I think you have a huge level of ignorance about what "making weight" means. You must not follow the fight business at all from your posts. You seem to think a featherweight enters the ring of his fight under 126. That almost never happens. Almost every fighter cuts weight for the weigh in and then puts most of it immediately back on by the time the fight starts.
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Feel free to argue semantics, the claim has always been 125 pounds. The realistic fact regarding any fight I have ever been in and would (probably not ever again) be in.. doesn't include myself or the other saying "hey you mind if I go cut weight for a couple days, weigh in, then meet you back here a day or two after that?" If the fact that I haven't taken cutting weight into account for my imaginary opponent is what has you riled up... go nuts.

I'll sit that immensely compelling debate out. :thumbup:

 
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'matuski said:
'NewlyRetired said:
'matuski said:
'NewlyRetired said:
This has to be shtick right?

No one of any intelligence would consider a feather weight to be only 5 feet. Most are in the 5'5 range and typically train in the 130-140 pound range and then cut weight before the fight and put it almost all right back on again by fight time.
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Odd - i have been working on the idea of a featherweight, by definition, weighing no more than 126lbs. If you have issues with the intelligence level of the people who set the parameters for a weight class, take it up with them? :lol:
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I think you have a huge level of ignorance about what "making weight" means. You must not follow the fight business at all from your posts. You seem to think a featherweight enters the ring of his fight under 126. That almost never happens. Almost every fighter cuts weight for the weigh in and then puts most of it immediately back on by the time the fight starts.
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Feel free to argue semantics, the claim has always been 125 pounds. The realistic fact regarding any fight I have ever been in and would (probably not ever again) be in.. doesn't include myself or the other saying "hey you mind if I go cut weight for a couple days, weigh in, then meet you back here a day or two after that?" If the fact that I haven't taken cutting weight into account for my imaginary opponent is what has you riled up... go nuts.

I'll sit that immensely compelling debate out. :thumbup:
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If paq ever mans up and takes this fight i got a cool Hmailton to lay on you brother
 
I think I was working under the assumption it was a featherweight based on the title. There are no featherweight fighters who are 60 inches all. That would be really overweight for such a short height. In addition, this makes me even more confident that a trained fighter who was 5'0 and 126 pounds would be an absolute brickhouse and would easily put a larger man on the ground and beat him senseless.

 
'Ilov80s said:
'The Z Machine said:
'Ilov80s said:
Featherweights KO each other a lot. Look at Nonito Donaire- guy is bantamweight at 118 pounds and would blow your head off with one shot and you wouldn't even see it coming.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=h9xy8hdmzqA
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The speed that these guys throw punches is straight ridonkulous.
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Here was Donaire at 111 pounds scoring the KO of 2007. This is the quickest power punch I have ever seen.
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Love the slow mo on this. Donaire would easily destroy any untrained fighter twice his size.
 
Above and beyond the height and weight difference that matsuki has over his theoretical "5 foot nothing, 125 lb." fighter is the level of (controlled) aggression and violence difference. Violence and aggression are part of the daily lives of pro fighters. They are trained and have honed these attributes to incredible levels. They understand patience, tactics, and technique. Combine this with a life full of taking and delivering violence, and matsuki's opponent has some pretty powerful advantages.

Just watch a featherweight boxing, muay thai, or MMA fight and if you still underestimate these guy's ability to take and deliver punishment, I encourage you to step up to one of them. Matsuki simply won't be able to deliver any blows with power, and won't be able to submit his foe if it goes to the ground. There's also no way that matsuki has the quickness to hold off his opponent when that opponent tries to strike. Would the featherweight knock matsuki out with one shot? Maybe not, but there's no way matsuki leaves the encounter without throwing in the towel for fear of permanent damage to his own body.

Oh and BTW, no featherweight fighters are 5'0" tall unless they're women. 5'4" would be on the extreme short side with most around 5'6".

 
Wow this thread is incredible. I don't know how I've missed it for years. Matsuki has been fishing you suckers for four years or he is delusional, one or the other.

A pro featherweight fighter woul destroy any Joe 6 pack alive. Only chance would be a gun.

I'd say you could give matsuki a knife and it wouldn't make a difference.

 
What a difference 5 years makes. Damn age, damn kids, damn career.

While not completely gone athletically.. I am certainly a shell of the guy that would whoop any tiny person's ###. I must admit I don't feel quite so strong in my abilities now as then. I'll drop the "any", and replace it with "damn near any". :banned:

Was never a doubt until recently, however.

Still my favorite thread ever, and still awesome to watch so many people stay so riled up so long over the obvious conclusion that size matters assuming a base level of athleticism. :thumbup:

 
I've been taking some kick boxing classes for awhile now. One thing I learned is that it only takes four pounds of force on the right spot on the chin to knock someone out. That's pretty easy for any trained boxer to do, and the punch would come so fast you wouldn't even see it. It would be over in less than 30 seconds.

 
This is my favorite thread of all time. Guys that would literally be knocked out in less than ten seconds thinking they could possibly win.

 
'matuski said:
What a difference 5 years makes. Damn age, damn kids, damn career.

While not completely gone athletically.. I am certainly a shell of the guy that would whoop any tiny person's ###. I must admit I don't feel quite so strong in my abilities now as then. I'll drop the "any", and replace it with "damn near any". :banned:

Was never a doubt until recently, however.

Still my favorite thread ever, and still awesome to watch so many people stay so riled up so long over the obvious conclusion that size matters assuming a base level of athleticism. :thumbup:
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You have no idea how to generate power like a trained boxer does. I'd love to see your big ####### in there trying to hit a "tiny person" or evade some of their punches while trying to hit back. You would either give up or just fall down like you really were knocked out, keeping one eye open to see when the ref finished counting.
 
matuski said:
Cliff Clavin said:
matuski said:
Cliff Clavin said:
My Link

125 lbs vs 286 lbs
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:lmao:

I'm a broken down 15lb overweight dad... and I'm nowhere near as bad as that guy.
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:shrug: The featherweight guy is a nobody. 3-7 career record. At all evens out.
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What evens out? I knew people were seriously underestimating me back then, but this is great stuff. :thumbup:
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Yeah fat guy had no business in the ring. I mean did you see the double clutch wind up on the one punch he tried to throw? If other guy didn't beat him he would have had to hide in shame.

 
FWIW, Im friends with Mike Strange (he was a Canadian Olympic Boxer). He won gold in the commonwealth games.

He fought at approx 135 pounds he said - and he was confident, because he's done it before, that he would beat the living #### out of any 230+ pound "fit" man, with no professional training, in seconds.

This isn't backyard brawling, you numbskulls. These guys put in 8+hr days for 10-15yrs honing their craft.

You lardasses wouldn't be able to eat another chicken wing for months.

 
rizzler said:
FWIW, Im friends with Mike Strange (he was a Canadian Olympic Boxer). He won gold in the commonwealth games.

He fought at approx 135 pounds he said - and he was confident, because he's done it before, that he would beat the living #### out of any 230+ pound "fit" man, with no professional training, in seconds.

This isn't backyard brawling, you numbskulls. These guys put in 8+hr days for 10-15yrs honing their craft.

You lardasses wouldn't be able to eat another chicken wing for months.
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Neither 135 nor 230 fall into the weight parameters set.. and I'm betting your friend is also outside the height parameters.

Hold on, I'll check. Michael Strange 5'9" 139lbs. Not even close. Knock half a foot or more, and 15 lbs off this guy.

I guess we are past trying to keep checks on this though. people think of small fighters they know, trot them out here only to find they are way bigger than the imaginary fellow we started this debate over.

5 foot nothing 125 lbs. I didn't make the claim versus anyone smaller than me, the claim was made versus the teeniest of tiny.

Google 5'2" 125 lbs and tell me how many men show up.

PS - I hate wings.

 
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