[DUMBGRUNT]

I wrestled in school and enjoyed it.
The few times I tried boxing it felt strange, not tieing up or going for a takedown? I felt like a fish out of water.

But I do recall that the need to stay on the toes in order to react and move quickly.

My question is how long he can stay on his toes with the extra weight?
It would seem to me he would run out of gas before a lean guy? If his opponent kept him moving to wear hin down?

[dp0622]

Wrestling is HARD1

Having done both, and not so great at either :), I will say wrestling is quite a bit more tiring in the immediate moment but doesn’t last as long (if no one gets knocked out in boxing).

how could it. It is EXHAUSTING.

But boxing is exhausting too. Especially if the fight goes 12 rounds (everyone here knows it used to go 15)

You are RIGHT. NO WAY this guy at 265 could have ANY chance against an Ali, who is too fast, a Klitchko, who was just TOO STRONG AND too fast or a young Tysen, whose shots to that soft belly would have killed him.

We are all pretty smart here. We see patterns in history.

How many FAT guys were heavyweight champs and for how long?

I gained TWENTY pounds and went from 200 to 220 when I was boxing and it felt like a TON.

Forget about it.

[outofsalt]

"I wrestled in school and enjoyed it."

I wrestled our state champ in my weight class in high school and he pined me in 14 seconds. It took him ten seconds to catch me!

[HotHunt]

I think wrestling is the most exhausting thing I've ever done. And I was a marathoner for 25 years. Those were easy peasy compared to wrestling.

I wrestled in both high school and college. The intense endurance workouts were brutal.

The matches in HS were 3-two minute periods. College had 3-three minute periods. I think those have change since I was in college to one-3 minute period followed by two-2 minute periods.

Doesn't sound like a long time but the energy expended in those few minutes can completely exhaust you, even if you are in great shape.

At university level we also ran 5-10 miles a day before our 2 hour mat workouts in a hot gym.

Conditioning is everything the coach used to tell us.

If you've ever wrestled a whole match, it is not hard to understand why. You could hardly move at the end of some matches, let alone look like you knew what you were doing.