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Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 18:35
by Tomasino
punchoutsb wrote:Tomasino wrote:punchoutsb wrote:
Its such a technical sport, there's not a lot of time to multi-sport it if you want to succeed. I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a top level boxer today who doesn't perform Oly's in their training.
That's true, but I'd imagine you'd struggle to find an Olympic WL who can take a punch from a heavyweight boxer.
You'd struggle to find anyone in any sport who can take a punch from a heavyweight boxer.
That's why I find these recent threads absurd
Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 18:41
by punchoutsb
I find them silly myself
Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 18:50
by Cutman Scabbers
Tomasino wrote:punchoutsb wrote:Prowse was a pretty accomplished weightlifter, which takes an extraordinary amount of athleticism.
I've never heard of a champion boxer coming from weightlifting. Not much contact in that sport...
I suspect there have been some. Boxers have also gone on to become accomplished body builders.
For example, Franco Columbu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DXW1B8lZps
Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 18:58
by Caractacus
Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 28 Jul 2016, 19:02
by Tomasino
Cutman Scabbers wrote:Tomasino wrote:punchoutsb wrote:Prowse was a pretty accomplished weightlifter, which takes an extraordinary amount of athleticism.
I've never heard of a champion boxer coming from weightlifting. Not much contact in that sport...
I suspect there have been some. Boxers have also gone on to become accomplished body builders.
For example, Franco Columbu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DXW1B8lZps
He was hardly a champion boxer, though a great weightlifter/body builder
Re: Could Dave Prowse have become the British Heavyweight Boxing champion ?
Posted: 03 Aug 2016, 05:42
by Giancarlo
Caractacus wrote:Heartbreak_Kid79 wrote:Size alone isn't enough... he would have needed an enormous amount of boxing skill (which he didn't have)- even at British level... he'd have been around in the era of Henry Cooper, Brian London etc
On calling on his Dark supernatural powers could save him....
Well obviously he didnt have any boxing skills because he never took any boxing lessons (as far as I know),
But just figure just after the war(WW II),people are looking for a fresh start,
someone see's the size of him and wonders if he may have what it takes to be a champion (sort of like the scouts that saw Jess Willard tossing bales of hay onto a wagon in Kansas or Primo Carnera at the circus in France
(what was the poplulation of England in 1950 ? 38 million?
IUts not lkie they had a reserve of big human specimens like the USA.
Have you ever had a woman, Brutu?