British Boxers- Feather fisted?

[Domiko]

Like british fighters in general? Or lately? Cause in general thats bollocks. Lately mabey.. Naz was a massive puncher, nigel benn, bruno believe it tyson said bruno hit him one of hardest punches in his career, henry cooper dropped the greatest. Froch ruined bute. Groves can bang haye. Frampton is icing people. This thread is not well thought out to be honest.

[Domiko]

Just noticed i wrote groves can bang haye... :/ haye can punch and so can george. If they bang whatever.

[ykdadamaja]

I don't believe this is really all that true.

Although I do agree that different places breed different types of boxers.

Philly breed toughness as does South American countries, but I may be being stereotypical.

We seem to breed slick boxers, Nas, Calzaghe, Haye, Groves, Eubank, etc.

I'd much rather watch some of our "feather fisted" slick fighters than someone like Wilder.

I won't argue with you on British slickness, you do have a point. And, that slickness does cost the fight to go an extra round or two when faced with a devestating puncher. In fact, taking Floyd seriously out of the discussion, British boxers out-slick every other nationality fighter that I have seen. So, I will leave that there.

But, the same thing goes with French and Italian fighters, feather fisted. Canadian boxers have low output ratings. And Latin American fighters- except for Columbians- bleed profusefly and cut easily which causes most of their fights to end on cuts.

Today's African American fighter has no heart. They can take a punch every now and then, but to ask them to go 12 grueling rounds with someone that hits back is REALLY asking too much of them. But African fighters have all heart but little to no slickness and not the devestating punching ability that you THINK that they would have- black Africans and not Afrikans, which is a totally different breed of fighter and people.

Every area/continent has their own thing with their fighters.

The art of boxing is to hit and NOT be hit,! is it not I can't get your point not many are blessed
with power, chin and great boxing skills, very few and that what makes them great fighters.!
No country has the monopoly on power punches, it is what it is you have power of punch
or you don't.!

I do not agree. African American fighters from the North East USA- NYC, NJ and Philly- have notoriously been power punchers. From any weight class- not so much for guys moving up in weight, they don't seem to carry as much power explosiveness. We are talking about one punch power.

But when you go further West and South-West, the guys tend to hit less harder and are wear you down kind of fighters. From any weight class too, particularly the HW's. When was the last time we had a HW champion- not even the undisputed champion- hail from the West Coast? Or anywhere past the Mason Dixon?? NEVER! Know why? Because they didn't have clock-stopping power.

Even Ali- and to some extent Liston, albeit he had a little more power to the punch- came from the Dirty South, but Ali didn't have clock-stopping power as a HW or a LH.

See what I mean? There was something in the way North Eastern US fighters were trained and bred. Shucks, even compare white HW's like Marciano and Joe Mesi to other fighters from further west- NO COMPARISON!!! Two white fighters with clock-stopping power that hailed from the North East USA.

Something has to be said about that...

[ykdadamaja]

Like british fighters in general? Or lately? Cause in general thats bollocks. Lately mabey.. Naz was a massive puncher, nigel benn, bruno believe it tyson said bruno hit him one of hardest punches in his career, henry cooper dropped the greatest. Froch ruined bute. Groves can bang haye. Frampton is icing people. This thread is not well thought out to be honest.

As of late and generally speaking. Not about the odd case, but generally speaking. Sure, Benn and Hamed (in particular) were freaks of nature with their power. But generally speaking, as any culture can produce one guy that has power- BUT it doesn't speak much or for the rest of the crop!!

[Vendettos]

With all due respect, I think you're talking out your arse.

Generally I like to back up my statements with some sort of reason or logic, but your thread is just so far fetched that you should be tortured.

Either feathered or fisted just for the sake of irony.

[Domiko]

For the size of britain compared to usa etc it has a high percentage of power punchers. I gave a list of power punchers earlier want more? Id say lewis could punch with the best of them... Lennox lewis stopped bowe as an amateur. Vitali, tyson, iron chinned ruddick, rahman etc i dont agree with this random un researched thread.

[bzkfn]

Hi all,

Why are British Boxers so feather fisted? Everyone except for David Haye and "perhaps" David Price, seems to be so feather fisted. Always a friggin decision... whats up with that? Not even stops on cuts!

Not sure what it is. Carl Froch is particularly feather fisted. That guy couldn't hurt a fly. Tony Bellew who is fighting tonight as well is feather fisted. They call him bomber because he farts alot, but in general he's a fucking pansy.

Bellew is not feather fisted. But he sure is overrated

Yeah I was being sarcastic because the thread is idiotic with no evidence to back it up. I agree that Bellew is overrated. I never really rated him in the first place. He is decent Euro level but he isn't world class. Hopkins would make him look so stupid it isn't even funny.

[Fenster]

Time for a Naz thread....

Whoomp there it is!