To Beat a Champion...

[Beanflicker]

i rekon the last pac marquez fight that pac won is a good example of aggression winning the fight

pac was pushing the fight all the way whilst marquez was on the back foot all the way

marquez probly landed the best 10 punches of the fight mainly due tho to pac trying to make a fight out of it

i havent seen the punch stats or owt but id say pac out landed marquez even tho at times it was less eye catching

i think pac deserved it

I disagree, I don't think you should get credit for trying to "make a fight" and I don't think you should get discredited for being on the back foot.

Larry Holmes was on the back foot for 15 rounds against Tex Cobb, who was constantly moving forward and throwing punches, and that was about one of the most one sided fights I ever seen.

If you're coming forward and getting countered cleanly, you're not winning the fight IMO.

[erics44]

i rekon the last pac marquez fight that pac won is a good example of aggression winning the fight

pac was pushing the fight all the way whilst marquez was on the back foot all the way

marquez probly landed the best 10 punches of the fight mainly due tho to pac trying to make a fight out of it

i havent seen the punch stats or owt but id say pac out landed marquez even tho at times it was less eye catching

i think pac deserved it

I disagree, I don't think you should get credit for trying to "make a fight" and I don't think you should get discredited for being on the back foot.

Larry Holmes was on the back foot for 15 rounds against Tex Cobb, who was constantly moving forward and throwing punches, and that was about one of the most one sided fights I ever seen.

If you're coming forward and getting countered cleanly, you're not winning the fight IMO.

obviously theres different situations

i think what i meant by pac marquez is that pac was landing as many if not more punches and making the fight what it was, marquez was countering well

but on that occasion due to that fact that pac was the one pushing it, he deserved it

obviously if youre just comming forward windmilling you dont deserve the credit for it

[beenKOed]

...you have to really BEAT a champion! Can anyone else stand this notion? I can not. That is like saying the Heat have to lose 5 games to lose the NBA title because they won it last year. Boxing is scored on a round by round basis. There should be no advantage for the champion on the scorecards. Very annoying and I think only Fairweather fans think like this, at least I hope so.

I'm a little conflicted with this thread. I have always understood this axiom to mean, you have to take the fight to the champion. No waiting for the champion to make the fight, be aggressive,take the fight to the champ, act like a champion and beat the champ.
I never thought it had anything to do with scoring and everything to do with attitude.

So kinda like Murray did?

Yes. We all know Murray got screwed in that fight, he should have had another KD.
That was a close, exciting fight and I appreciated every minute of it. Murray should have started taking it to the champion two rounds earlier, his only mistake in my opinion.
We are not going to agree about this, it's a difference in interpretation about a nonexistent problem.