Re: James Degale- Not aggressive enough!
Hey... I notice he still gets booed from his own crowd. The Groves fight could have gone either way. I think they handed it to Groves because Groves showed more heart in the ring and more positivity about the fight.
With that being said, there is NOTHING wrong with DeGale's skills. He has decent power. What he doesn't have is the right fighting attitude.
All the talk aside, someone like a Naseem Hamed had oddles of bad attitude- but he more than made up for it in the ring with exciting and convincing wins. You know why? Hamed came to fight- and fight hard and be aggressive and hit people.
DeGale needs to learn that OR get out of the ring.
On this current path, he will be a non-descript Olympian who "may" win a minor belt, or even a piece of the world title, but nothing more.
He has the talent and skills to be much more than that.
Re: James Degale- Not aggressive enough!
As Brits we don't like a lot of talk!
Unless your talk is what Groves did, he soaked up the bs DeGale said and basically said "we shall see in the ring" and we did.
I had Groves a bit further ahead than the judges did but that's my opinion.
DeGale has developed a little power which he needs, and he needs to lose the shoulder roll sort of style he's developed and be more aggressive.
Re: James Degale- Not aggressive enough!
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As Brits we don't like a lot of talk!
Unless your talk is what Groves did, he soaked up the bs DeGale said and basically said "we shall see in the ring" and we did.
I had Groves a bit further ahead than the judges did but that's my opinion.
DeGale has developed a little power which he needs, and he needs to lose the shoulder roll sort of style he's developed and be more aggressive.
Basically, he needs to forget all of that fancy stuff and all of that technical posing in the ring that "may" have helped him win that Olympic Gold Medal, and fight.... just fight.
RJJ/Hamed/Mayweather/Broner all pose from time to time and look stylish, but they never forget to kick a dude's arse. Degale needs to kick arse first and then pose.
DeGale can learn a lot from Calzaghe and Froch- how Calzaghe puts up such high punch outputs and how Froch keeps it going and coming at you, all night long.
