How good are boxes at running?

There's a website that is collecting the results from all the 'Superstars' tv shows from around the world - anyone obsessively interested in how fast boxers, tennis players, footballers etc can run could spend a few hours on it :

http://www.thesuperstars.org

I just took a look at one year - 1974 UK final which featured John Conteh, the Light Heavyweight boxing champion and at the time regarded as one of the most talented boxers in the world and possibly the next Muhammed Ali. Unfortunately, he liked to party and squandered his talent.

Anyway, he won the show, coming second in the 100m (to a soccer player) and second in the 600m steeplechase (second to the same soccer player - he also beat David Hemery the 1968 400m hurdles Olympic Champion, although Hemery had to run 700m).

*Conteh actually ran 12.0 for the 100m. He also beat David Hemery into second place in the 400m Cycling time trial.

Boxers wrote:

In all those Rocky movies you always see the boxers doing a lot of endurance running. How good they are do say? What times would you say those professional fit boxers can do for 5k,10k?

How good are wrestlers at running? If you want to generalize I would say not too hot. That is why they are wrestlers!

Ivo Van Damme actually took part in the 1976 Eurostars final and recorded an 11.5 100m sprint time.

http://www.thesuperstars.org/comp/76eurofinal.html

As far as I can see, the fastest 100m on the UK and European Superstars was by the soccer player Malcom Mcdonald - 10.8. That was apparently inside the British Olympic qualifying time at the time. He also had a 100m personal best of 10.4. This was in 1975!

He was built like Alan Wells too :

https://youtu.be/ZIH2waJj9-U?t=2m37s

I'm going to bed now, I've spent too long on that site already.

I want to run fast wrote:

[quote]Nooway wrote:

[quote]I want to run fast wrote:

Tito Ortiz can run 3 miles up a slight incline in 18 minutes. Well, he could back in the day, now he's not good for much. Would have weighed 220 or so at the time.

What you smoking boy?

I dont remember his time, but I do remember Evander winning that event in a Superstars competition. But that was when he was a 275 lb light heavyweight before he packed on all that muscle.

I remember people saying that Oscar de la Hoya could have been n elite level distance runner. Seeing him run, he diid in fact look like he had very good form, for what thats worth. The ironic thing about that claim, however, is that as a boxer, his major weakness was a tendency to fade down the home dyretch.

Lucas Tanner wrote:

I dont remember his time, but I do remember Evander winning that event in a Superstars competition. But that was when he was a 275 lb light heavyweight before he packed on all that muscle.

Hah! I meant 175 lb light heavyweight.

otter wrote:

Holy fields wrote:

Evander Holyfield ran 2:09 for the half mile in one of the Superstars competitions.

I'm calling bs on this.

2:09.88.

Here's the source.

gifted wrote:

that square guy wrote:

Boxes are really really slow.

You might think so, but I've found that some boxes really have a gift.

Yes, did you 💍?

ahhh you got me a%%hole xD nice one its BOXES with out an R nice one biach :P lol troll score 9.4/10

I want to run fast wrote:

Nooway wrote:

Sprints. That's it. 100m, no further.

Tito Ortiz can run 3 miles up a slight incline in 18 minutes. Well, he could back in the day, now he's not good for much. Would have weighed 220 or so at the time.

Thats just what he claimed. He was also a notorious bs'er about all kinds of things.

Amir Khan was better at running than taking a punch. His face regularly got pulped.

He was first in superstars over 1000m but can't find the result.

chuck was better wrote:

I want to run fast wrote:

Tito Ortiz can run 3 miles up a slight incline in 18 minutes. Well, he could back in the day, now he's not good for much. Would have weighed 220 or so at the time.

Thats just what he claimed. He was also a notorious bs'er about all kinds of things.

MMA does require astonishing levels of cardio, probably far more even than boxing. 5 minute rounds, and grappling is far more tiring than punching and kicking as you're dealing with the other person's weight.

The Diaz brothers regularly compete in triathalons in their part-time and apparently to a high level. Nate Diaz famously simply outlasted Conner McGregor in their first fight even though for the first round Conner was using him as a punch bag and had his face cut to shreds.

I would like to see how Cain Valesquez would do in a 5000m. Though not at altitude (also strong suggestions he must have been juiced to the gills with EPO before the USDA clampdown).

BTW, there was an article on the BBC website today describing Anthony Joshua's training - 12x 3 minute treadmill 'rounds' at 15.0 pace with 1 minute rests.

I know one, Roger "The Stingray" Turner, ran 3200 meters in 10:08 when he was in high school. He was a good boxer (winner of some borderline belt, as I recall) in the late 1980s to early 1990s.

rocky 2 park steeplechase wrote:

I want to run fast wrote:

Is it just me, or is this very fast for a 17 stone boxer.

Boxers are exceptionally good runners but they make much more money boxing so they do not often explore their potential in running. When they do thowever, the results are often devastating. As you saw Joshua destroyed Farah who is an 4 time running gold medalist. He also destoyed Brown Lee in the same race who is an Olympic gold medalist in the triathlon. Valdimir Kuts was a boxer who took up running and he destroyed everyone in the Olympic 5000m and 10000m in 1956 and he also destroyed several world records. Benson Maysa was a boxer and he destroyed all comers at several major road races in the 1990s.

Hint: to make your writing seem like an adult wrote it, mix up the vocabulary a bit, rather than using 'destroyed' in every sentence

Cream of SumYungGuy wrote:

Boxers wrote:

In all those Rocky movies you always see the boxers doing a lot of endurance running. How good they are do say? What times would you say those professional fit boxers can do for 5k,10k?

Great question. Boxers are actually better at running than runners are! They're also stronger, and they get laid more frequently. Unfortunately for them, they are also all criminals, so they are in jail. This is the reason you won't see them competing at your local 5km, and is also the reason they are unable to woo your girlfriend. Unless of course she visits them in jail... which she does.

Boxers,

You had the answer from the start both to boxes and boxers, what more do you want?

Officially nominated for thread of the year.

Aiiiiiiio wrote:

Officially nominated for thread of the year.

It's not bad, but the one in which Stoppit Smith had a meltdown is better.