I think that most activities in which the emotion of the fans is very related to the offensive (as a complement of defense) is prone for double standards.

The fans in the current era and maybe of a lot more eras in the future aren't unbiased enough like to separate emotion from their objective judging because seriously, what % of times in history has the overrated hard puncher lost vs the technician boxer? much more than expected, they haven't learned the lessons of history even thought they have been exposed repeatedly

and yet they continue to overhype and overrate the emotion producing boxer or any exciting athlete.

Until maybe... they make the ring much smaller to prevent him from running a lot and they change the judging system to penalize huggings immensely more. Unless maybe the boxer was really good at technique and not just at athleticism