Traceability of boxing technique

I am thinking to make a series on tracing the foundations of boxing technique and game
since old time till now, showing who developed, improved, put to another level, created, altered, adopted, used new principle, and such...

Of course, there are limits. I plan to base the discussion solely on avaible footages, so it is not going to be pure historical talk. We choose "peaks" of the mountains so to speak to trace the direction of the "mountain ridge".

Write your thoughts on lineage.

I have not studied a lot of fighters , but I see some pattern like this:

Number are generation. This is just out of my head, no proof so far, just how I feel. No principles and such.

I want to point out that the goal is not to classify, by to trace influence and notable development

Purely technique, game, ring generalship,


(1) Benton - (2) Whitaker -
(1) Charlez

(2) Floyd Mayweather

(2) James Toney

(3) Dmitry Pirog

(1) SRR

(2) Ali

(3) SRL

(1) Henry Armstrong?

(2) Jack Dempsey

(1) Floyd Patterson

(2) Mike Tyson

Punching technique

I will come back here later

Think the biggest innovation as regards technique happened in the late 60s. Rubber soles on Boxing shoes, it altered a lot of things.

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Originally Posted by Scrap

Think the biggest innovation as regards technique happened in the late 60s. Rubber soles on Boxing shoes, it altered a lot of things.

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Perhaps, I can start from 60's, no need to go very much back

Thinking of that, those slippery advertizing stickers they have in the middle of the canvas are a dumb idea.

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Originally Posted by Andre

Thinking of that, those slippery advertizing stickers they have in the middle of the canvas are a dumb idea.

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Damn right