Does boxing make you faster and smarter?

Question

I'm a 18 year old guy about 6"0 and 165 lbs. I used to fight alot in highschool and I usually won because I was bigger than most of them. But during the whole fight it would feel rushed and I didn't feel concentrated and did whatever.

I started boxing and I did it for 2 weeks. I learned the stance and basic dodging and blocking skills. He told a girl that's been there for about 2 months to try to touch my face.

She must of thrown over 100 punches at me all were dodged or blocked and none of them touched my face. It was the first time I ever felt a whole sense of control while fighting and I felt like I knew what I had to do and it was all timed well. The girl was told to throw only left jabs but I don't think she understood cuz she was french and she used all these variety of punches and she went all crazy till she got tired.

Does boxing make your brain more organized to reactions and make it work faster?

Answer 1

Not really yeah you will be able to control ur self better during a fight but if a wolf chases u you will enter fight or flight mode and not be concentrated like its your first fight. The more u fight the better u get. The more you do something the better u get at it. Does that make since?

Answer 2

yeah youll have way better reactions to things and like i quess if you have a good build it would make you faster

Answer 3

ignore dirk d

Answer 4

Believe or not, boxing VASTLY improves your reactions and control in a fight. When you learn how a stance, how to dodge(bob and weave), and jab to set up combos, you will always win a fight against an unexperience opponent. The reason you feel rushed in a fight is because in a fight, you are in survivor mode and adrenaline is pumping and you dont know what to do. When you practice boxing, you dont rely on sheer instinct, you rely on skill, experience, and above all, knowing what to do when your oppenent acts. Look at the Floyd Mayweather/Ricky Hatton fight. That's how a typical fight with two people (one who knows how to box, and one who doesn't know how to box) would look, except much worse. Skill always beats raw, untempered agression and once you learn the sport of boxing, reacting properly in a fight will become second nature.