Do you choose your boxing style??

[ross]

Im a new boxer, training in Toronto...studying boxing and boxing history at the same time...just curious you hear about the different boxing styles, swarmer, boxer, slugger..Do you choose which style you become? Does your trainer choose? Does it just happen naturally? Can you consciously choose, focus and train to become a certain style because you find it appealing?

If im a george foreman frame, can I train to fight like Tyson? Also I hear swarmers tend to have shorter careers than the proper boxers, is this true?


Thanks

A decent trainer will teach you the basics. Dont try and copy a style, you will see what works for yourself. The aim is to hit and not get hit, not to impersanate a fighter and get caught.

Look at Broner. Trying to copy a style that should make him hard to hit but he was the one who took a beating against Maidana and not Khan

[ykdadamaja]

It all depends on your size first. Then it's your mentality. I'm a 6 footer- I won't ever be fighting tall in the HW division- my real division.

I never carried much of a wollop, so I had to do the next best thing- I had to maul my way to points or stoppages.

Basically, my fight plan was to get in close, push the opponents to the ropes, and maul and wear him down with resounding punches- not bone crunching punches, but resounding punches.

That was me.