Name some Boxers who you used to find entertaining to watch but who became boring later in their careers.
I'll start with Keith Thurman.
Used to find him great to watch but his style seemed to changed around the time he fought Bundu and became this jab and mover.
Any others?
When the hell was he exciting?LOL, very funny! That is a great question; One in which I really can't answer. All I know is that before David Tua turned him into Huggy Bear, with that vicious one round knockout; He was at least watchable. He was your typical boxer/puncher.
When he was still fighting, Mike Jones was fun to watch, until he had those 2 fights with Karass I think. Then he was boring as ****, and then, he met up again snooze fest 1 punch KO artist Randall Bailey.
Calum Smith is heading that way a little for me but I wouldn't like to say boring as that's disrespectful.
And a strong opponent will may bring the best out of him but his style is quite metronomic. High held gloves, jab, jab, right hand and sink the left in when its available. But it's more the pace. Everything is at the same pace there doesn't seem to be a switch of gears. When fighters step up the levels usually the KO's dry up and the have to find other things to take the play away from their opponent.
With Smith I don't know what he does to beat George Groves apart from throw a huge volume of jabs against a fighter who has shown he is adept and landing his own heavy jab and countering effectively against talented fighters. But maybe something else is in Smith.
Good shot on Callum Smith. His power seems to have faded even when facing guys outside the Top 10 and whats left is a rather boring jab jab jabber.
Calum Smith is heading that way a little for me but I wouldn't like to say boring as that's disrespectful.
And a strong opponent will may bring the best out of him but his style is quite metronomic. High held gloves, jab, jab, right hand and sink the left in when its available. But it's more the pace. Everything is at the same pace there doesn't seem to be a switch of gears. When fighters step up the levels usually the KO's dry up and the have to find other things to take the play away from their opponent.
With Smith I don't know what he does to beat George Groves apart from throw a huge volume of jabs against a fighter who has shown he is adept and landing his own heavy jab and countering effectively against talented fighters. But maybe something else is in Smith.
Eubank Sr became quite boring after the Watson bouts, mainly because he never sat down on a power punch ever again and his immense stoppage ability greatly reduced.
GGG.
He was only exciting because of inferior comp. We saw what happened the first two times, ever, that he fought a B range boxers.
The Canelo fight (from skills perspective) was particularly painful to watch-- with GGG shooting blindly and robotically in the dark, with his face as his main defensive weapon.
He'll be exciting again if he's allowed to fight the Wades of the world again. Not likely!