Inside fighting.

[VG_Addict]

Inside fighting is a dying art. Not too many fighters do it anymore. Who do you blame? Do trainers just not teach their fighters how to do it anymore?

Personally, I blame the amateur system. It favors outside fighting and throwing pitty-pat punches. It's why some fighters who are standout amateurs are having trouble adjusting to the pros.

[vidgil]

It's a hard, taxing style of fighting, unless you have incredible skill and reflexes like my main man James Toney did.

[El Kabong]

It's a higher risk form of fighting...also some fighters especially power punchers want to get extension on their punches to make them land as hard as possible, getting in too close takes the sting out of their punches.

[Master]

Watching Tyson, Chávez and Toney with their own different styles were beautiful to watch when they fought on the inside. They caused beautiful damage to their opponents.

[mikeeod]

There are still some solid inside fighters. Ward is very effective on the inside. GGG is basically a Russian (Khazak), middleweight version of Chavez. Loma, and Chocolatito are both very effective on the inside, and Mikey Garcia is dangerous at any distance. I would even consider Danny Garcia an effective fighter on the inside.

Toney and Floyd were both masterful, defensive fighters in the pocket, where guys like Chavez and GGG take you apart, piece by piece in there. Ward and Hopkins weren't/aren't as asthetically pleasing, but both were phenomenal at fighting effectively inside.

[chef97]

To me, any FOTY candidate must feature high qualityinside fighting... When these actions are executed by both boxers in every round ; it can make boxing the most exciting sport known to man....

[Alpha]

As @mikeeod said there are still those fighters that are very capable at fighting on the inside. It just seems we currently have more movers/ boxer-punchers around.

[Master]

As @mikeeod said there are still those fighters that are very capable at fighting on the inside. It just seems we currently have more movers/ boxer-punchers around.

I think Ward won his fight against Kov by staying on the inside and taking the fight to Kov.

[greynotsoold]

Fighting inside is easy if you are loose and know how to get position. It is flat out fun if you can punch hard and short and if the other guy needs room to swing his arms. Can't even feel it.