Boxer Beards.?

Question

Why do you never see boxers with beards

Answer 1

Ruddiger and Stuart are both right.  Some boxers take exceptions to beards, and can have it written into the contract as to what is acceptable in regards to facial hair.  I have seen a few (very few) fighters in some club fights with braided goatees, and this is the longest i have ever seen in a professional fight.

Answer 2

If you watch enough boxing you do

Howard Eastman

Lennox Lewis

Evander Holyfield

Micheal Moorer

Vaugh Bean

Frans Botha

Micheal Grant

Roy Jones Jr

Bert Cooper

Joe Frazier

Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Thats off the top of my head.

A boxers beard cannot be too long though, like a santa clause beard or anything wouldn't be allowed.

A beard can act like Vaseline does around the eyes, it allows the glove to slip off the chin easier, when the leather hits the skin it sticks a little, with the beard the glove slips off.

Answer 3

jordan some do  have them. also if the other boxer or trainer say thats its not rite im no happy with  that or dont want to fight him if its like that..  then most  of time the WBC -IBF- WBA- ABZ.. who ever is runing that fight will sort it out well before they fight starts as it can be nasty i would not want some sweaty man rubbin his beard up my face...... if you like then  b  then thats you.... it can also cut  you up and you never no what he has...   ...most of the time its leading up to the fight they cant be ares  some never shave as they are training so its the last thing on there minds..it most of the times its  black men look at kimbo... not like jones or short stuble carrales.  i mean a chin of bees type

its short hair that tends hurt and it can  cuts  you its true it would do my head but you would not even khow as your pumped up but   even so i would want it off . soom  do it to mess with the orther fighters heads geting them to wip it off.

tyson sparring partners would not get in with him and N benn he was the worst he never have a bath war fair he was goin to war in his head getting  in to  the zone...

Answer 4

Some states commissions don't allow beards and it is usually the exception when boxers are allowed to wear them but Evander Holyfield, John Ruiz, Roberto Duran and Emanuel Augustus all had them frequently. I think it may be a slight advantage protecting against cuts as the face is softer but the critical cuts are usually around the eyes and so I don't think it would play much into a fight one way or the other. Perhaps just a mind game if anything.

Answer 5

Just to add another one, Danny Williams nearly always has a beard when he fights