Of course, the best thing you can do is work or your technique. That will make you a better boxer more than anything else. But strength is also very important. A good punch is a combination of technique, speed, and power. You leave one of these out any you will not have a powerful punch.
Also, it is a fallacy that muscle will make you slower. This was the same thing baseball players believed for many years and we see what happened to that assumption. Now, if you are as huge as Olympic weightlifters or people that compete in bodybuilding, then yes, you would be slower but only because that muscle is unnatural. The human body was not designed to look like that. To become that big takes a single-minded dedication to training, nutrition, and supplements. The common person will never look like that. Look at all the people who work construction, if this assumption was true they would all look like monsters. They are strong, but not abnormally big.
So, don't worry about being "too big" because its like saying you don't want to take up the piano because you don't want to be a concert virtuoso. In either case, it probably isn't going to happen.
I would suggest staring with push-ups and sit-ups (correct one, not anything that will hurt your back). That alone will build strength. Don't worry about the weights right now.
yet another great post by feint. listen to this man.
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