Why are we so slow

Now before anyone gets upset with the following words I want you to know I had 120 amateur fights and lost about have of them. My only claim to fame is having one of my team mates be the best in the world in 1986. Mr. Mix, Kelcie Banks was and still is a good friend of mine.

Well back to the title of the blog, I was slow at throwing punches. My foot work was good but I could not gain hand speed for anything. Yes, I'm white. Now you know. We in the boxing community say it all the time in a joking manner but could someone in the medical arena give us some data about this.

Let's look at the best white heavy weight. If it was not for a hard shot in the 13th round to Jersey Joe's face his legend would not have been as bright.

You need hand speed to be competitive in the fight game. If you don't have it you must at least be a 6'7" heavy weight to compensate for the lack of it. 

Please doctors give us the reason why we are so slow.