Ahead of Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua fight at heavyweight in Florida on Friday night the topic of neck strength has come back into the limelight a bit in boxing.
One of the more underestimated things in boxing these days, certainly in professional boxing, but something important for certainly, definitely up at heavyweight in particular.
At heavyweight professional boxers are hitting with so much power the human brain is really not designed to get hit by that type of force, getting punched from someone like Mike Tyson in his prime would kill most people and is the equivalent to a car crash.
They kill people all the time.
The Underrated Importance of Neck Strength In Boxing
Jake Paul has been using a weight harness for neck exercises you might have seen in the build up on Netflix to this week’s big fight on December 19th.
It is important for him at heavyweight as Joshua and his heavyweight contender sparring partners have been hitting hard in the gym, trying to take him out of the equation completely.
The idea is that a stronger neck absorbs this massive punches that are like a hit of an iron bar or baseball bat across the head, over and over again, so that the fighter can fight on.
Of course, the idea is not to get hit at all in the first place by punches so as to not test this at all — which is the name of the game — hit and not get hit.
