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Old 07-24-2020, 09:03 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift View Post
How does a boxer with a size or speed advantage use that in a fight? With arm length IIRC there is a thing in there where a guy with a longer reach gets a small bonus (I think +1 but y'all tell me if I'm just making that up). With size, it's definitely power. With speed, I'd say it's *probably* Control Factor but there are a number of ways you could make that work.

I think the big issue here is that Title Bout is based off of a board game that is kind of made to simulate (some of) the results of boxing. The fact that it was originally a board game meant that in order for it to not take 3 hours to sim one match, certain shortcuts needed to be made, and as such even though things like "hand speed" and "footwork" are for sure things that exist in real-life boxing, the Trumbos had to kind of hand-wave that and make it reflected in other attributes in the game. That's not a knock on something which, after all, has been around for more than 40 years.

Solid points! When I think of a guy like Hearns & that reach of his, what a nightmare to try & fight a guy like that - he could box & also had the power!



The other day on his show, 1 of the questions for Max Kellerman was how he saw a Mayweather & Hearns fight going?



Max said it would have been a bad matchup for Floyd & I could see that because Tommy could box but with his reach & power too.


Floyd didn't have the power (especially at 147 or 154) like Leonard did to go get Tommy when he fell behind on the scorecards.
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