Jack Johnson on Wrestling

Before the great Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns to become the World Heavyweight boxing champion he spent some time as a wrestler. The man was a very tough fighter as you can imagine. However Johnson has been quoted to say that he gave up wrestling because boxing was much easier than meeting up with the brutes of wrestling.

It really depends very much on the individual.
Everybody is different. While someone may struggle trying to do something, to you it is the easiest thing in the world.

If he means by standing there and punching vs. actually learning to wrestle like a champion.. yes Boxing is the easier route. You need to be in much tougher physical shape to be a wrestler and workout very differently.

There is so much more to boxing than throwing punches. This is probably how everyone starts, but there is so much else to learn, so many things to master.

I agree that wrestling is harder then boxing just because of the rough trainin in wrestling...I wrestlied for like 4 years and I would come home everynight with bruses all over my body.

yeah i dont know i am going to start doing both and so then i can find out for myself

iv done a little of both i must say right off the bat as a beginner boxing is much much more demanding. although when the time for competition comes a boxer is already built his stamina to its peak, the effort is much more in head, where ur trying to be focused and im wrestling its all just brute force all out kind of

I think physically wreslting is harder than boxing. Thats why boxing can go 12 rounds and wrestling goes 3. It's much more explosive and demanding. I also think boxing demands more from your emotionally. And in that if you've lost 5 rounds in a row, you have to be able to come back mentally and win the next 7. I've done both and I think they are equally hard depending on that you're looking at. But physically I give the edge to wrestling.

I think they're both tough, in different ways. Boxing is more consistant in what is allowed, I'd say wrestling involves more of the body, and a bunch of stuff that'll throw you off like feeling strangled, but it also doesn't have punches to the head.

Different people are going to be stressed different by each individual sport.