Would you say this is true?

I'll make it simple, Bradley wins and the rest will inevitably lose. Time will ruin all fights unless they are smart....smart guys always finish first.

Funny all the people speaking sense here and yet we have cats swinging from one hype job's nuts to the other like Tarzan through the jungle day after day, year after year. It's easy to talk I guess.

In terms of a boxer studying his opponent, yes. Keith Thurman takes this approach. He only studies his opponents last fight because you can't improve that much. Improving takes a lot of time (most of the time), not one fight.

your last fight doesnt define how good you are, but it plays a huge impact on how people view your skills.

not one bit

Styles make fights so no. Exactly. "You're only good as your last fight" is what fools people into believing hype and momentum can decide an outcome. Nature and the laws of reality decide outcomes.

Styles make fights so no. /thread.......

pac looked alot better when he got knocked out than the previous one

True, but 'good' doesn't mean you had to win your last fight. Personally I try to keep an eye on the last few fights a fighter had to try to get a sense of their trajectory. edit: And styles do make fights. Basically. One fight can be an outlier to the norm but if a fighter starts with a pattern over several fights of promising or not so promising performances, it is a fairly accurate way to assess, so long as the level of competition is also assessed. Just look for patterns. But not false ones. Alotta promoters and networks are trying to gas people up.. Dig?

Nope. Every fight comes with different circumstances and like a couple of the lads above said, styles make fights.

Not really. Boxing's psychology is too complex and complicated to be summed into such a simplistic logic.

It can be a measure of how much a fighter has improved or declined but does not dictate how good he has ever been, and some fighters have declined a lot by the end of their career that should not affect their past accomplishments .

No. Lara had to gut out a TKO victory over Angulo then came right back to outclass Trout, a legitimate top 5 JMW. The talent and skills were always there but Angulo's pressure presented problems. Like others said. Styles make fights.

"You're only as good as your last fight." True, but 'good' doesn't mean you had to win your last fight. Personally I try to keep an eye on the last few fights a fighter had to try to get a sense of their trajectory. edit: And styles do make fights.

No. There are many variables that can affect performances.

If you believe in that RJJ is a bum Yea RJJ is a full blown Journeyman now. You hadn't noticed?

If you believe in that RJJ is a bum He is, he wasn't but he is now.

If you believe in that RJJ is a bum

Styles make fights so no.