Necks

[The Old LefHook]

Neck. It must be important, pedastel of the head. Wow! Remember the neck on Roy Jones when he stepped up to heavyweight? How about the tree trunk where reposed the head of Holyfield after stepping to heavyweight? Holy could take a punch and Roy couldn't.

I am trying to think of a fighter without an outstanding neck who could really take a punch. That seems to be most of them, really. I cannot recall anything outstanding about Lamotta's neck, or Robinson's, either. They had regular, good necks for athletes, maybe a little more because they were boxers, but not the tree trunks that you see on many modern boxers.

That begs a question. Are these tree trunks, which are only found on modern boxers, the result of some quirk or vogue on the part of trainers? Are they really necessary, or are they an example of trainers gone wild, gone overboard on a trend with no known advantage simply because it looks good, seems right, or keeps them looking useful?

Or is there a physical law which says the more neck the better on a fighter?

[TheMexHurricane]

Speaking of necks(as in "rednecks"), looks like the Farcical Aryan Gang Scribes(or F.A.G.S. for short) are up to their old tricks. LOL!

[hrt3333]

I believe increased neck size and strength helps.


//www.businessinsider.com/neck-strength-nfl-concussion-2012-6

[The Old LefHook]

I believe increased neck size and strength helps.

There must be limits to its benefit. Building the neck up drastically requires bulking up the entire upper body to acheive muscle balance.

[yngwie]

Train your neck really helps to absorb better the punches, when you get hit and your head moves abruptly, the brain hits the walls of the skull and in a defensive response, your body lights out, if you can take a punch without your head doing abrupt movements, you have less chances of getting knocked out.

[The Old LefHook]

Train your neck really helps to absorb better the punches, when you get hit and your head moves abruptly, the brain hits the walls of the skull and in a defensive response, your body lights out, if you can take a punch without your head doing abrupt movements, you have less chances of getting knocked out.

I believe you have taken disparate bits of information which are correct and stitched them together into a conclusion which is wrong.

Yes, a strong necks helps absorb punches.

No, your brain does not hit the cranium wall because your neck turns fast.

Yes, a hyper rotated neck can contribute to knockout, spinal damage and death, which is not your brain.

It is the impact that injures the brain and slams it against the cranium wall. In fact you would be injured much worse if your head did not give way to the punch. A man forced to hold his head against a slab while you punch him will be injured worse than if he were standing free and told not to move.

Yes, a strong neck can help prevent KO's, but mostly prevents injury to the spinal cord.

No, a strong neck does not actually protect the brain, it protects the spinal cord and nerve bundles passing through the foramen of the cervical vertabrae which attach to the brain at C1.

[GrandpaBernard]

Train your neck really helps to absorb better the punches, when you get hit and your head moves abruptly, the brain hits the walls of the skull and in a defensive response, your body lights out, if you can take a punch without your head doing abrupt movements, you have less chances of getting knocked out.

When did roped neck weights become the standard

Tyson is a modern boxer that was relying on bodyweight exercises to build his neck

[yngwie]

When did roped neck weights become the standard

Tyson is a modern boxer that was relying on bodyweight exercises to build his neck

24/7 started showing mayweather doing it, i don't if some fighters did it before, but in the old days, fighters use to wrestle a lot, so they became strongest in neck and for the clinch.

[Anthony342]

I remember seeing a lot of video of Vinny Pazienza doing it as well.

[Fury4daWIN]

Thought this thread was going to be a post about Samuel Peter. Now that stocky mutha had a neck on him. Took a hell of a punch too.