Be a boxer is considered a style of life, there are many movies where the coach of the boxer tells him to respect always the rules of the gym and to never go on the street fight.
In the same case, destiny can stop you and broke the classic rule that is always given in the gyms.
Can a regular person beat a boxer in a street fight?
A professional boxer or also a medium level involved on a street fight have higher chance to beat a normal person for a lot of reason some of this are :
- Boxer reactivity is higher than the average person
- Boxer make sparring every week
- The boxer can have more mental control
These are some of the advances that a boxer can have on a street fight, let’s take a look more in-depth.
Boxer reactivity is higher than an average person on a street fight
Starting from the firsts sparring sessions the newbies boxer, learn that one of the most fundamental tools from his career is reactivity.
The reactivity on boxing is the alterations of a state (for example a coming punch) due to an awareness that they are being observed.
As we can imagine a boxer during the years will improve his reactivity due to the numerous situations that occurred to avoid a punch.
During a street fight, the boxer can only take advantage of this propriety developed during his years and have a better chance to avoid the punch given from the person during the street fight.
Boxer make sparring every week
A boxer during the years of sparring or match builds a ( habitat ), someone of you can think, that the habitat is restricted to the ring where the boxer make his section of sparring and match.
But if you have experience with boxing (or also other martial arts), will know well that this is not true.
As humans are proved that repeating process help to build instinct and experience, the boxer during the sparring section covered every week will be more comfortable during a street fight and the possibility to win are very high.
Mental control of a boxer during a street fight
A boxer can take advanced from his sport on a street fight also on the mental or physiological point.
The area where a Boxer build his mental strength is on:
- Confidence
- Self-believe
- Emotional control
- Focus
Confidence built on boxing used on street fight
As covered before is the process to know the situation and as discussed this is a very big piece during every fight.
Self-Believe on boxer during a street fight
I think all of you had experienced this emotion, during a particular situation of your life, for example during a test or a particular work that you already have done.
How was the feeling? I think that you were more relaxed and your self-believe was high due to the already made jobs or situations and directly also your performance.
This is why the self-Believe build from boxing can give another point during the street Fighting
The 3rd point is emotional control, this is the point where a human that is not trained in some particular situations as the street fight can bring to a disaster because you will lose control of the situation and will start to act instinctively.
This will not happen to a professional boxer or a well-trained boxer, and in this case, the boxer will be advanced also on this side.
The 4th point is connected with emotional control, the boxer is trained to be focus in all the phases of their match and during their training section.
And Focus in almost 90% of the case means success, so to answer the question: if during a street fight a normal person not trained or also a trained person, will encounter a boxer that during his years of boxing has built the characteristics described before, they will not win for 99% of the case.
This was an overview of the point of advanced that a boxer has when encountering a normal person during a fight on the street.
Some other curiosity of the boxer on the street fight are:
Can a boxer kill you?
Yes everybody can, but depend on where the punch will hurt, the boxer has more likelihood to kill a person during a fight, due to his experience and power of punches.
Is there any famous boxer know as good street fighter?
The answer is Kimbo slice,
Kimbo slice was a boxer and fighter of MMA, Kimbo slice was working as a limousine driver and bodyguard for RK Netmedia.
After that Kimbo slice decided to quit this job and start a career as a street fighter, on the beginning the video of his fight was distributed only on a few specific websites, but the growth of the internet made Kimbo slice become very famous.
After leaving the street fight Kimbo slice start to train at the Freestyle Fighting Academy under Marcos Avellan and David Avellan.
In the beginning, the main training of slice was on street fighting, and other techniques like dirty boxing and elbows – but while he was training he began to develop an interest in MMA and boxing.
After weeks and weeks of training, Kimbo slice signed his first contract for an MMA fight at the WBO Heavyweight champion and Olympic gold-medalist boxer Ray Mercer at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5.
After a series of fight wins, he makes his first debut on UFC where he fought for 2 fights in total with one win and one loss.
After the loss of fight, he switches and he starts to fight for Bellator, in the Bellator competition he won some fight and was having good success, but on 06/06/2016 he died for a probable heart attack.
On YouTube there is a famous video that shows the strength of this man, how is considered to be one of the best street fighters on the planet.
Is it illegal for a boxer to street fight?
Yes, it is illegal only for a professional boxer, because starting from the moment that he received his/her license, his punch is considered like a weapon.
Considering that every case is different from another, can also happen that the boxer involved in the street fight was a constraint to use his punch as self-defense, with a good lawyer and good evidence, and demonstrating that he reacts instinctively, the boxer will not be punished by the law
Do pro boxers have to register their hands?
As mentioned in the following rules only person expert in karate or judo, in the Guam territory.
Read here:
U.S. territory- Guam. There, in Title 10- Health & Safety Division 3- Public Safety, Chapter 62, it states:
Any person who is an expert in the art of karate or judo, or any similar physical in which the hands and feet are used as deadly weapons, is required to register with the Department of Revenue and Taxation.
This is the only evidence found on the internet about registered hands, you can read the mentioned words by clicking here.
Conclusion
In this article, we cover numerous points, given also a little explanation to remember of each of as involved in the martial art, and not, to the weapons that we have inside as.
The weapons for a boxer (martial artists) is not only the punch but is mainly on our mind, our mind controls everything, as we saw in this post, the power that a boxer has inside is 1000 times greater than an average person encounter on the street, so be careful and utilize your power in a good manner and if it is possible only form competitions match.