i understand how frustating it was how such fights can be a ppv event... like you said, hype! but thats what hsppen if you buy a mismatch... such talent like floyds needs to b matched w/ top brawlers and not w/ green horns or any B level boxers. imagine the best technical fighter v. the best volume puncher... now how could that be boring?
There were always technical boxers and brawlers.
The most technically sound fighter I've ever seen is this guy;
It's very rare when boxing produces true fight artists/strategists who are gifted/possessed with the physical qualities, the talent and skills, deep understanding and genuine love and appreciation of the art of fighting or boxing. To this category i would include the rare likes of Jack Johnson, Gene Tunney, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Pernell Whitaker, Roy Jones, Jr, Ricardo Lopez and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. who dominated out of their sheer natural brilliance.
It's also very rare when boxing produces real human wrecking balls the likes of Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Mike Tyson.
I think these are the main reasons why boxing has become more technical because the fight game is populated largely by average fighters whose propensity is to adopt or borrow and combine some of the successful techniques employed by boxing artists and powerful punchers in order to reach certain degree of success themselves. In so doing, they tended to be more technical in their approach rather than strategic or artistic about it. That makes boxing sometimes very hard to watch and appreciate.
I box currently.
And no, it's gotten TOO technical. That's why so many heavyweights especially, incorrectly place too much value on technicality and not finesse, and many can't even go past round 5.
No boxing is not more technical. They have more brawlers and boxer punchers than anything.
Wow. Teoder's answer is absolutely correct.
I mean when you look back at boxing history for the era of Robinson and Lamotta an their wars, Frazier and Ali, Leonard, Hearn's, Duran and Hagler, they all beat each other and had memorable fights I mean I understand boxers are about defense and I mean you have decent fighters like rios and Provlikin( sorry can't spell his name) but my point is every fight that is hyped ends up in a being more of a technical boring fight and not a great fight for the fans so what has happened to boxing have fighters learned from the past?
