Quote Originally Posted by Starr
Quote 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.