Amateur boxing changing how skilled prospects fight?

[Trainer Monkey]

Alot of its the head gear, in the Ammies you create bad habits of walking in to punches because you know it cant hurt you,or you know you can take it. At the pro-level that same punch puts you on your ass

[Taeth]

Roy Jones was a balls to the wall fighter as an amateur, he was as much of a fighter as he was a boxer, but he made the transition very quickly. Floyd pretty much stayed the same. Is it because a lot of these guys are fighting in the amateur style instead of changing it? I don't know, but I thought if anything the amateur style of scoring would make them much better at fighting off the back foot, because in theory how amateur boxing is scored and ref'ed it should be a much more tactical and technical affair.

[Trainer Monkey]

Roy Jones was a balls to the wall fighter as an amateur, he was as much of a fighter as he was a boxer, but he made the transition very quickly. Floyd pretty much stayed the same. Is it because a lot of these guys are fighting in the amateur style instead of changing it? I don't know, but I thought if anything the amateur style of scoring would make them much better at fighting off the back foot, because in theory how amateur boxing is scored and ref'ed it should be a much more tactical and technical affair.

It really does come down to the head gear,the spots it covers are nighty night spots in the pro's,you can just walk through shots more with the gear on