If you were a professional boxer what skills / attributes would you want to be great at?

This is just for fun. If you trained yourself to become a professional boxer and you managed to excel in some aspects of your overall abilities to elite level while being average in other areas which one of these attributes would you want have as your biggest strengths?

You can only pick 5 out of the 20 listed. The ones you picked would be a 10/10 while everything else would be a 6/10.

1. Speed
2. Power
3. Chin / Punch Resistance
4. Stamina / Conditioning
5. Footwork (balance, using angles)
6. Physical Strength
7. Timing / Accuracy
8. Head / Upper body movement
9. Tight guard
10. Jab
11. Combinations
12. Ring IQ (Control in the ring, adaptable)
13. Reflex (fast reaction, evasive)
14. Counter-Punching
15. Body-Punching
16. In-Fighting (fighting up close)
17. Work-rate
18. Closing the distance (cutting off the ring)
19. Heart (warrior mindset, never give up attitude)
20. Mental Strength (staying calm under fire and sticking to the game plan)

 

Really creative thread, Flo. Nice job!

I would definitely want the first 4: Speed, power, chin, and stamina.

The 5th attribute is tough, lots of options, but I'd go with ring IQ. No amount of attributes count for shit in the ring without ring IQ.

 

Well, anyone with a 10/10 in the first five could go all the way to the top so I guess those.

When I was actually fighting though I'd pretty much only have two things I could do consistently regardless of my opponent, and they were land a lead right uppercut and an overhand left. There was a few other little things like pivoting off to the right and coming round with a hook to the body but the right uppercut and left overhand were really my bread and butter.

 

I think you also have to pick what style you want.

Cause a 10/10 in speed and power could be a boxer-puncher like Robinson, or could be an attacker like Tyson.

 

defense. head movement, reflexes, footwork

 

Many years ago, I had ambitions at being a useful boxer. I come from a boxing family (my uncle Tommy was a pro: https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/121265) and I trained hard with him and out of a great ammy club (Birtley BC) under Ronnie Rowe (RIP). My ammy fights showed I had 2, 3, 4, 10 and 16 but I lacked 5, 6 and 9. I was a 154lber back then, but my lack of the above meant I got into too many wars for my own good. My dislocated jaw and broken ribs, combined with my determination to fight through, meant that a fighting career wasn't for me, unless I fancied a really short life.

Great thread.

MTF

 

I'd approach this bit differently.

I'd take speed, power, chin and footwork, added with self-confidence and brash personality. Thus, I could make a Briggs/Gervonta/-esque career and look good while smashing some no-hopers. That way I could make the most money with least effort and risk

 

Speed, power, chin, stamina, and ring IQ.

 

Tank has a brash personality.

His opposition suggests that his self-confidence is a facade.

 

David Haye

 

3, 4, 12, 19, 20.
With those you will develop the others, or be able to overcome them.

 

Agreed grey. Although I'm also partial to good timing/accuracy as an honourable mention.