Amateur boxing changing how skilled prospects fight?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Dunno what it is. Good/great fighters seem to come in cycles but it does seem that training methods have changed. Is it a matter of seeing things how we want to see them? E.g old fighters are better than todays crop.

Is that a product of the professional game where pure aggression regardless of how effective it is is scored more highly than defensive prowess? Why do we rarely see body punching being scored in the am's?

Are todays fighters not as well rounded. What happened to being able to box on the back foot rather than only coming forward? What happened to having a plan B or C or hell even D! If things aren't working.

I was going to argue this BUT for every modern fighter who seems to have one style where it works (and where it doesn't) I can think of old fighters just the same.



I was thinking about this over the weekend. Perhaps it's not the sport but the people in it.

It's all over the boards right now but look at video of Barrera at 21 and look at Khan at 21, Oscar at 21 at Khan. They look a world apart in terms of skill and maybe that's it. It comes down to the individual.

I think Khan is as skilled as Oscar or Barrera, just he has defensive lapses and obvioulsy a bad chin, but the quality is there, same with Berto, same Andrade, same Russell, I just hope for the last two they can do other things as well, I know Andrade is pretty good off the back foot, unfortunately the only guy I saw being super well rounded coming out of the Olympics is going back and that was Rau'shee Warren.

I am shocked at that but can't really disagree with the rest.