Styles DON'T make fights

[SkillspayBills]

A FIGHTER'S STYLE is what makes the fight. Every FIGHTER has a certain STYLE of fighting. The problem people make are defining a certain fighters style as this or that when most if not all fighters have a style that is basically all their own.

[kayjay]

A FIGHTER'S STYLE is what makes the fight. Every FIGHTER has a certain STYLE of fighting. The problem people make are defining a certain fighters style as this or that when most if not all fighters have a style than i basically all their own.

Exactly. When you say "styles make fights" to mean that every fight/matchup is different because every fighter is unique, then you're using it correctly.

But when you lump fighters into the four or five familiar categories in order to reason by analogy, then you're going wrong. This last method is very common here.

[Fox McCloud]

Bumped for Wieny. To whatever extent you appeal to those categories, you've not begun to learn yet.

Right, because a natural counterpuncher does not have a natural advantage against a wildman who leaves himself off balance.

They are not the be-all and end-all of boxing analysis, but you have to be kidding me if you don't think they play a role at all.