The standard these days seems to be to break far too quickly, which I don't like at all. I love to watch an inside fight, far more than I'm interested in watching some guy with tassels on his shoes and a funny haircut skip around while being told that that is great boxing.
It has always been curious to me that there were boos doing the Charles Williams/James Toney fight, and I can only imagine how much interference there would be today during the in-fighting of the Gavilan/Graham fights. Let them fight!
And it is the responsibility of a fighter- if he is to be considered a professional- to be at least competent at all aspects of the activity.