What's up with the misconception that a boxer has to be a prancing dancer around the ring?

[MONGOOSE66]

Hahahaaah

Hope I didnt offend any young ladies on here LOL.

[Roadblock]

I find it hilarious how a lot of people think a top boxer has to be some prancing, tap tap moving hugger to be successful or considered "elite"

boxers like Benavidez, Chavez, Duran etc are boxer punchers but they don't need to prance around the ring like fairys they are true fighters not some manufacturered softies.

Imagine if all boxers fought with that prancing/hugging style boxing would 100% be a dead sport literally no one would give two ****s about it. It's the boxer/puncher style fighters who keep this sport alive that's a fact.

Ppl gotta stop being fooled by what a certain group wants you to believe.

And what group are you in, I know the teenage group that has no idea of boxing under fan level, which is the Coliseum mentality, if you go down the rabbit hole of humanity and violence, youth is all piss and wind, gungho, charge lol, it was the generals that were the tacticians, the stylists, the youth were the pea brains on the front line screaming death before dishonour, the point is boxing is a sport, a set of rules designed to keep a fight civilized, the smartest stylistic players will be the most successful at any sport, there is no right or wrong boxers style, there is only individual fighters showing different levels of how good that style can be.

Let me tell you there is art in every form of expression, including fighting and boxing, when a fighter can take his style and beat all the others he faced his style is perfect for him, the aim of any sport is to WIN, if a guy develops a style that allows him to win, who can say what style is best and what is not

[dannnnn]

You do have a point worth making here, I've been thinking similar things for a while now myself. Defensive boxing is given too much credit these days. It always feels like the guy moving backwards/laterally is automatically branded the 'boxer' in the equation and the onus is entirely on the other guy coming forward to land all the eye-catching shots every round otherwise he must be getting 'outboxed' by definition.

More importantly, boxing as a spectator sport is declining and it's due in part to the prevalence of a certain style we see all the time nowadays wherein the aim isn't so much to beat the opponent as it is to simply nullify them. Keep the fight at max range, touch, touch, and when they get close just grab hold and wait for the ref to break you up back to neutral. In-fighting barely exists anymore. It's a lost art because tying up and holding is no longer penalised as it should be. It's acceptable these days, expected even. It's considered "smart boxing." What it actually is is systematic cheating and it's a cancer on the sport.

Here's just a random fight I was watching the other day on YT which highlights how things have changed. Chavez vs. Edwin Rosario. Look how immediately engaging this is. Straight down to work, blocking and slipping each other's punches, action flowing seamlessly from outside-fighting to inside-fighting and so on. This is what boxing should be. A brilliant display of both offensive and defensive acumen without resorting to holding and stalling and spoiling. Also take note of how much more difficult it is for the fighter who wants to create a bit of space and distance to do so when he actually has to fight his way out and not just grab hold and wait for the ref.

[real raw]

Rip but Corrales was nothing like Benavidez Corrales had no chin phiscially weak and was not durable. Davids chin is granit and Strong AF.

no comparison.

Also better example would be the whoopin Castillo gave Floyd in the first fight.

Benavidez isnt half the fighter Corrales was

[real raw]

You do have a point worth making here, I've been thinking similar things for a while now myself. Defensive boxing is given too much credit these days. It always feels like the guy moving backwards/laterally is automatically branded the 'boxer' in the equation and the onus is entirely on the other guy coming forward to land all the eye-catching shots every round otherwise he must be getting 'outboxed' by definition.

More importantly, boxing as a spectator sport is declining and it's due in part to the prevalence of a certain style we see all the time nowadays wherein the aim isn't so much to beat the opponent as it is to simply nullify them. Keep the fight at max range, touch, touch, and when they get close just grab hold and wait for the ref to break you up back to neutral. In-fighting barely exists anymore. It's a lost art because tying up and holding is no longer penalised as it should be. It's acceptable these days, expected even. It's considered "smart boxing." What it actually is is systematic cheating and it's a cancer on the sport.

Here's just a random fight I was watching the other day on YT which highlights how things have changed. Chavez vs. Edwin Rosario. Look how immediately engaging this is. Straight down to work, blocking and slipping each other's punches, action flowing seamlessly from outside-fighting to inside-fighting and so on. This is what boxing should be. A brilliant display of both offensive and defensive acumen without resorting to holding and stalling and spoiling. Also take note of how much more difficult it is for the fighter who wants to create a bit of space and distance to do so when he actually has to fight his way out and not just grab hold and wait for the ref.

Chavez was amazing! One of my all time favorite fighters