Re: Effective Aggression or Reckless Abandonment
They're all high end fighters to be fair so they all kinda fall into the same category for me. Take some to give some with a cerebral approach. When I say cerebral I don't necessarily mean smart, more so particularly in the case of say a Margarito, a Rios or Katsidis. They're happy to operate that way and they accept it because it's the best way to get the job done, and against better higher caliber opposition, the only shot they've got. I'd say a Glenn Johnson had a more measured approach to his effective aggression, didn't get hit quite so cleanly and as often as some of the others. But it was still the same principle.
The last option you've given is the most interesting. Ineffective aggression. Exerting lots of energy with little result. On one hand very easy to observe. Peter McNeeley for example flying across the ring at Tyson. Again it was his only shot but the way he went about it was utterly pointless, he achieved nothing. But what about a Chavez Taylor? On a round by round scoring basis you'd have to say that for the most part, Chavez's aggression was ineffective. In the grand scheme of things though his aggression was effective and he was slowly but surely breaking Taylor down. Chavez forcing the stoppage of course makes that something of a mute point. We can then all look back and say how we expertly spotted all the great work he did prior.
Margarito Mosley was a great fight for me. Save for allegedly smashing Cotto's face in with concrete fists, and punching Lujan's ear off, it was the most interesting thing that's ever happened in a Margarito fight. As I said earlier Margarito played the game a certain way and he accepted it, it was the way things worked. I'm going to attempt to punch you in the face a bunch of times, you're definitely going to punch me in the face a bunch more times. If you're too good you win, but I'll be there at the end. There was like a complete system shutdown when Mosely battered him. I accept that you're better than me and going to win, but you don't knock me down or stop me, that's not how things work. His 'system' failed and his face was a picture.
When God said to the both of us "Which one of you wants to be Sugar Ray?" I guess I didnt raise my hand fast enough
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