How far do Styles Make Fights?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Styles makes fights also is why triangle theory never holds up

[mickey malone]

Styles makes fights also is why triangle theory never holds up

Styles determine the outcome
What makes a fight, is two prime fighters who don't like each other

[fight_professor]

Style and skill level of the respective fighters make the fight. Eg: You cant take a C-grade 'puncher' and think he's going to pull a Foreman on Smoke.

[Ben Bolt]

A match-up that always intrigues me is when the devastating puncher and the formidable technician clash.

Most often, my heart is hoping for the technician. Because, he’s the one in danger of having his brain blown into pieces. They – the techs - must all have been thinking: “How does it feel to wake up from a KO? I don’t wanna find out. But I’m at great risk of doing it now.”
And the awkward emotion of knowing, standing in the corner seconds before first bell, that now it’s too late to withdraw …

[Panamaniac]

A match-up that always intrigues me is when the devastating puncher and the formidable technician clash...

Ali vs Liston, Foreman are classics that immediately come to mind...

[ImStillHere]

I find what happens a lot of the time is that the fighters are wrongly labelled. Like when Danny Jacobs fought Pirog, Jacobs was billed as the skillful boxer but anyone that's has watched both would tell you Pirog is far more skilled.

And when Dib fought Gradovich. Dib was supposed to be the boxer but Gradovich looked like he had the fast hands and feet and looked to be the better at setting up shots.

When Victor Ortiz fought Berto, Berto was billed as the fast boxer with explosive power but Ortiz was faster and hurt Berto with every punch.

So styles are relative.

[Ben Bolt]

Ali vs Liston, Foreman are classics that immediately come to mind...

... and the odds are pretty much in favour of the puncher. He can afford some mistakes, but one bad move by the tech and it can all be over.

[ImStillHere]

Ali vs Liston, Foreman are classics that immediately come to mind...

Marquez vs Pacquiao, I think Marquez won all four fights while fighting the whole time aware that a left hand could **** up his world at any time.

[Ben Bolt]

I find what happens a lot of the time is that the fighters are wrongly labelled.

Which has fooled me more than once. We don't really know if the label is right until the fighter has had his first real test, do we?

[Panamaniac]

Yes ... and the odds are much in favour of the puncher. He can afford some mistakes, but one bad move by the tech and it can all be over.

Which is why Sonny was such a heavy (8-1) favourite. Ali had an uncanny, yet onorthodox ability to lean away from punches that served him well. In Zaire, he was able absorb most of Foreman's haymakers against his arms while leaning on the ropes, in large part because of George's arching shots. A few more well-placed uppercuts up the middle might have made a difference.