Boxers don't know how to get inside anymore

[Master]

I think you are making a massive over generalisation and sounding like a bitter old man with rose tinted glasses.

[J_Undisputed]

How many heavyweights train to be fighters anymore? You have "athletes" that like using reach height and weight to beat up on smaller opponents and make it an easy night... then out of shape bouncers, doormen and security gaurds that like to waddle inside. The athletes have ability and the bouncers have power, but who has both the dedication and spirit to be a fighter anymore? To train to take someone apart without apparent thoughts to how much money theyre making, how much health they stand to lose, how much money they still owe on condo, political aspirations, their own promotional company, their padded record, the highlight reel, who got top billing, what they will say to the cameras.

The inside guys don't know a damn thing about range anymore. They chase, charge, hug and then try to tee off from a clinch. They're knot working to get there arms and elbows free anymore. Putting the top of their head in your chest and pushing off to make room to punch. The get hugged and start noogie and rabbit punching or start slow dancing, till the ref separates them.

The outside guys don't like being in range of a smaller guy so they clinch em and wait for the ref. It used to be a tall guy would step back in a clinch and unleash a hellish uppercut, and pop your head up for the straight/cross.Uppercuts now are reserved for lunging arm punches from mid range on an a winded, shelled opponents that have the muffs on.

You wont see fighters like marciano, tyson, frazier, etc. They knew what they were, they knew what their mission was once they got in the ring and they understood the importance of the results in validating their training. You never had old fighters say.. oh. it wasn't my night. They made it their night, because their soul purpose for being was to destroy the other guy and move on to the next one. This why I hate guys like floyd, hopkins, and other self promoting idiots talking about business and money and contracts and chasing geriatric milestones. Fight the damn fight, and keep your entrepreneurial crap to yourself. It's like a stripper in the middle of a lap dance, doing a two step because it makes it easier to tell you she "was really thinking about pursuing a career in medicine but she couldn't decide between gastroenterology or ....."

[brocktonblockbust]

i think you are making a massive over generalisation and sounding like a bitter old man with rose tinted glasses.

bullshit, my glasses have a mint-hue.