Is boxing really just about hit and not get hit?

Re: Is boxing really just about hit and not get hit?

I also think it comes down to how you score a fight. Do you score the rounds for the guy who has been moving around the ring,landing infrequently,or the guy who is pursuing,letting his hdans go but not landing as much?

The perfect examples of this are Daniel Ponce De Leon v Gerry Penelosa. Penelosa being the sweet sciene aspect,Ponce the toe to toe aspect. Who did you score the fight for and why? The same with Oscar Floyd and Corey-JT.

Re: Is boxing really just about hit and not get hit?

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Originally Posted by Starr

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Originally Posted by Troy McClure

so is this what ur getting at star....eg it was tysons fault cause bonecrusher ran and held the whole fight? lets not forget it takes 2 to tango ;)

it's both of their faults. Why would tyson be any different ???

And you refer "strategy" and way to win to "running scared"

Why don't you tell me why a boxer should play into his opponents strengths and his own weaknesses ???

Starr,

I don't think any boxer should play into the opponents strengths. However if you finish a fight and your face and your opponents face are unmarked, you didn't bloody them up, or anything, the guy who was trying to avoid getting hit didn't want to fight. When that happens, I don't say "wow, what a great defensive fighter" I say "that guy didn't want to beat his opponent, he only wanted to avoid getting beat" In that case I would give it to the aggressor. Now if the fighter is moving and avoiding punches and landing lots of punches and makes the other guys face look like he's been hit alot then it's a different story. Example is Arce's last 2 fights. Recent one he got dominated by Mijares. Mijares outboxed him and beat him bloody. The other guy in the fight before ran and covered up avoiding punches and avoiding landing punches. One guy just didn't want to get hit and one guy wanted to hit Arce alot and used his skill and avoided the punches of Arce.

It's about aggression for me. Spinks wasn't aggressive at all. PBF was aggressive for maybe 2 minutes of the ODH fight, Mijares was aggressive the whole time. However Mijares never stood and traded punches or played into Arce's strengths.

Re: Is boxing really just about hit and not get hit?

I enjoy seeing fighters who can do both at the same time. When you can make your apponent miss and make him pay for it. That is boxing at tis best imo. I of course like to see a knockout becouse I know in my fights I hated going to the judges it just gives me a sick feelig that something screwy is going to happen.