I am curious to know your thoughts on which boxer has the best and worst boxing style when it comes to confrontation outside the ring.
I personaly nominate hector camacho as having the BEST boxing style for outside the ring.
Before we begin I want to say that, this is not about bashing individual boxers or getting personal digs nor attacking there courage and dedication for there sport.
Hectors camachos style:
amazing footwork for in and out to avoid getting tackled,
Great fast and powerful lead jabs to stop someone from throwing haymakers. Deadly accurate left hand, regardless of power thats a show stopper and not to mention he could stand in the pocket and murder you with short range punches.
Lastly his bread and butter...grabs your head with one hand and smashes your face with uppercuts with the other.
Worst boxing style:
Adrien Broner: Lets subtract his youth,power and exprience for a second...
His wide stance and flat footedness makes him vunerable to getting kicked in the knee cap.
Dropping lead hands may work for thommy hearns but someone bigger then him can just grab that arm and dodge his right with a tackle.
That being said in reality broner should handle his shet because his got powerful punches and fighting exprience to take out lots of people.
There you have my list, I think hector has the best style for self-defense and broner has the worst.
A versatile style with Krushing power like Kovalev's.
He proved that he is more than just a "one-dimensional power puncher".
Killed a man with gloves on.. imagine a "streetfight" without gloves.
all he needs to do is:
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and people would probably shlt themselves
Camacho grew up in the streets of Spanish Harlem, he knew how to street fight before he laced them up. Broner..lol..is a show off who likes to dance and just make a show about everything.
I don't think I've ever seen a hs wrestler win a bar fight. They just go for a takedown and end up getting smashed in the face.
Sean Gannon actually beat Kimbo Slice in a fight, though I doubt if this qualifies.
However, his face was a bloody pulp after the fight, so it's not the way I would try to fight myself.
I would think that Mike Tyson's peek-a-boo style would be very useful in a streetfight.
The insanely fast head movement combined with the aggressive counter-punching could end a fight pretty early in a bare-knuckle type situation.
The best style is to get a straight punch in and hopefully end it there. If you find yourself smaller/shorter than your foe, quickly grab him by both shoulders and headbutt him straight in the face full force.
I'd say a boxer puncher would be best. Considering your fighting in a street brawl. You'd want to have the foot work, good distance when you trow your punches, timing, know how to use angles, lateral movement & any good thing a BOXER is trained on. Cuz chances are if your fighting the average joe all that would be new to him. The PUNCHER part will help you get him out quick & he'd be getting hit with angles, combos you'll me moving & shifting your weight into your punches so that should take out the other guy fairly quick in a street fight.
Guys like pacquiao, gamboa, mayorga would be the best. Fast and aggressive. In a street fight you want to end it quick and brutal. You cant dance around and jab shoulder and ****.
I would go with Andre Ward, because being able to grapple and fight out of the grapple would be very useful. Plus he is good from the outside which would also be of huge benefit because catching a dude before he ever gets to you can end the fight right there.
Really any fighter has a good style though when faced with an unskilled hack~
tyson or pacquaio. you want an offensive aggresive style is best suited for a street fight imo. not a guy who likes to jab alot but somebody who is gonna slip shots and drop bombs, ending the fight quickly. also jmm. such a good counterpuncher as soon as a guy opens up with one punch he is gonna catch a 5 piece and hit the floor. rjj obviously. most people, even competent streetfighters, would have no freaking clue what hit them.
most styles should be able to do well in a street fight because the guy who gets cracked with the first good shot usually loses. Well trained boxers will be faster and more effective punchers.
My father was a correction officer on rikers island and had a few stories about feather weight sized boxers KOing guys much bigger than them with one punch.
Not as much as in an MMA octagon, considering a boxer would be able to punch in the back of the head on the way down, in a street fight.
This. Often overlooked because MMAis in a controlled environment...but realistically you'd get hit on the back of the neck, head, or spine by any trained fighter in a street fight.
I'd probably go with a RJJ type style. Dude would literally be impossible to dodge to a normal person. Forget about if he wants to sucker punch... Good night.
Or maybe a Shane if his chin carries over. Power, speed, agression as needed and insane foot speed? Would be hard to argue against that.
Hehe, interesting thread. Boxers would be negated by wrestlers as it's a different fight on the ground.
Much respect for your join date and post ratio, please keep in mind that a boxer in self-defense is allowed to knee/rabit punch as well as if he finds himself on the ground, he can upkick the opponent.
Ufc/american mma rules are very wrestler friendly.
Hehe, interesting thread. Boxers would be negated by wrestlers as it's a different fight on the ground.
Not as much as in an MMA octagon, considering a boxer would be able to punch in the back of the head on the way down, in a street fight.