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a technical fighter is someone with good techinque as far as im concerned hence the term TECHNical, dont confuse conventional with technical fighter
people say Kessler is technical ,well if technical fighter is someone with no upper body movement and someone who comes foward and goes backwards in straight lines and throws wide robotic looking hooks and has the defence of a battered wife when backed up then yeah i guess he is technical
conventional and technical two completely different things
take Naseem Hamed he was at his best against fighters that held their hands high,the conventional type fighters like Steve Robinson, because he was able to move to their left or right after or whilst countering with his hands down because they could not see him to counter him because their vision was obscured by their high held guard
also when you fight with your hands up so high you have to get closer to your oponent to land anyone who has sparred or Boxed in this posture will know exactly what im talking about
if you look at Amir Khan against Prescott he came out in the same posture i realise full well he may still have been Ko'ed but Rubio altered his style he made him raise his hands up high which meant he has to be closer to Prescott to land his punches [mid range] and his game plan was obviously to pick the punches off with the gloves and make slight head movement to avoid the counters and fire back but it backfired big time,because of Khan's chin or because he had not adapted to the style ? a bit of both IMO if he had a decent chin he could of got threw it even if he did get hit like that but he also did not adapt to the style well either,because he tried to throw a left hook to the body without putting something before it like a jab to take his oponents attention off the fact he was gonna go reaching down stairs you dont go reaching down stairs period, you have to be close to land EFFECTIVE body punches but you certainly dont reach down thier before throwing a jab to disguise it Khan IMO should of understood this at that is why ive always been of the opinion Khan does not have good Boxing brain
having your hands up so high is not ALWAYS the best strategy it is against certain oponents etc etc but not all the time
i knew Margarito would get to Cotto if he ever started to move to Cotto's left and started cranking the right hands because Cotto had both hands high and his left would of been obscuring his vision from the right hands of Margarito and if Margarito was cutting him off from that side to he was always going to struggle,i can remember thinking this as i was watching the fight and sure enough it happend soon as he stepped to Cotto right and starting letting the right hands go BINGO he had a huge round
people say Kessler is technical ,well if technical fighter is someone with no upper body movement and someone who comes foward and goes backwards in straight lines and throws wide robotic looking hooks and has the defence of a battered wife when backed up then yeah i guess he is technical
conventional and technical two completely different things
take Naseem Hamed he was at his best against fighters that held their hands high,the conventional type fighters like Steve Robinson, because he was able to move to their left or right after or whilst countering with his hands down because they could not see him to counter him because their vision was obscured by their high held guard
also when you fight with your hands up so high you have to get closer to your oponent to land anyone who has sparred or Boxed in this posture will know exactly what im talking about
if you look at Amir Khan against Prescott he came out in the same posture i realise full well he may still have been Ko'ed but Rubio altered his style he made him raise his hands up high which meant he has to be closer to Prescott to land his punches [mid range] and his game plan was obviously to pick the punches off with the gloves and make slight head movement to avoid the counters and fire back but it backfired big time,because of Khan's chin or because he had not adapted to the style ? a bit of both IMO if he had a decent chin he could of got threw it even if he did get hit like that but he also did not adapt to the style well either,because he tried to throw a left hook to the body without putting something before it like a jab to take his oponents attention off the fact he was gonna go reaching down stairs you dont go reaching down stairs period, you have to be close to land EFFECTIVE body punches but you certainly dont reach down thier before throwing a jab to disguise it Khan IMO should of understood this at that is why ive always been of the opinion Khan does not have good Boxing brain
having your hands up so high is not ALWAYS the best strategy it is against certain oponents etc etc but not all the time
i knew Margarito would get to Cotto if he ever started to move to Cotto's left and started cranking the right hands because Cotto had both hands high and his left would of been obscuring his vision from the right hands of Margarito and if Margarito was cutting him off from that side to he was always going to struggle,i can remember thinking this as i was watching the fight and sure enough it happend soon as he stepped to Cotto right and starting letting the right hands go BINGO he had a huge round
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