Boxing on HBO tonight - Forrest Vs. Mayorga

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why do they list "arm length" instead of calling it reach?

Because the way they have done it for many decades is measuring the wingspan of a fighter. Which is they hold out their arms and you measure from fingertip to fingertip.

That can be misleading because some fighters then seemingly have a 'longer' reach, when really their backs, shoulders and fingers may just be longer. So it's really adding fake length. So you may have a fighter with a 76" reach and another with a 70" reach, but the 70" reach fighter has the longer reach.

Now they measure from the armpit to the end of the balled up fist, which gives a more accurate statistic.

For example some weeks back during a fight on ESPN2.

a fighter had a 82" reach and 27" arm length.

the other fighter had a 75" reach and a 28 1/2" arm length.


Either way the Judah fight was a snoozefest but it gave Judah some of his lost confidence back.

Mayorga was amazing against Forrest. The 4th round witnessed one of the sickest moments in boxing. Mayorga got tagged with a combination from forrest, then stood there with his hands dropped and begged Forrest to hit him. Forrest landed 2 seperate 3 punch combinations that didn't even move Mayorga, he just begged him to hit him.