The skills of Errol Spence Jr

[Sheldon312]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu4AvffAV2U&t=195s

This video breaks down how skilled Errol Spence Jr is. Why do so many on this thread say that Errol Spence is "basic"

[Roadblock]

He is basic just he is good at being basic, basic doesn't mean no skill it just means textbook fundamentals of boxing.

[elfag]

people not saying hes not skilled he just isnt elite skilled like crawford.

[Teetotaler69]

Lmfao spencerina fangirls nervous

[MinuteMaid5]

He is basic just he is good at being basic, basic doesn't mean no skill it just means textbook fundamentals of boxing.

Being basic doesn't win you 3 championships. Shalom

[Silence]

Being basic is the best the thing if you use it effectively.

Most basic thing is Messi's dribbling in the sports industry. Defenders still couldn't solve it.

[satiev1]

Straight up and down mr flat footed is gonna get his ass beat.

[djtmal]

He is basic just he is good at being basic, basic doesn't mean no skill it just means textbook fundamentals of boxing.

Your boy Jeff Fenech he was basic too right.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Spence Junior is a text book, very correct fighter. So he does nothing really wrong, or fundamentally he makes less technical mistakes then some of his competitors.

Many top fighters of late when you really analyse them, have all been textbook fighters.

Usyk is a text book fighter, he does nothing technically that is in my opinion THAT creative or unconventional.

Anthony Joshua is also a text book fighter 'Tyson Fury in comparison is not a text book fighter, with that comes a awkwardness for his opponents but? Fury is from what I have seen, more likely to make unforced errors at a higher rate than both Usyk & Joshua 'In 95% of Fury's fights, he will make unforced errors even against non-world level fighters'.

Crawford is not as text book as Spence Junior, but again? I don't think he is as unconventional as a fighter like Fury, or Wilder.

Note: Floyd Mayweather Junior was also a text book fighter, I have never considered Mayweather as a flashy flamboyant fighter, and he did nothing really outside of the correct text book type move's etc.

[crimsonfalcon07]

A lot of fighters could stand to be more "basic". Most fighters, even at the elite level, lose because they make mistakes with their fundamentals. Defensively, they overreach, pull straight back in the same line, get sloppy with their hand placement during or after the attack, get caught flat footed, enter without the jab or head movement, disengage in the same pattern, etc. Offensively, they don't commit to the body, they don't cut off the ring, they don't vary the power, pace, or placement of their attacks, etc.

All of these things are basics or fundamentals, but get neglected even at the elite levels. And we're not even talking about feinting, angles, setups, positional attacks and defenses, and other more advanced things. When people get knocked out, it's almost always because they neglected a fundamental.

And think about what works well and leads to stoppages. Fundamentals like the 1-2 or 1-1-2, 2-3/2/7, check hooks, timed overhands with head offline, and pull/slip/roll counters account for the huge majority of stoppages. All basics, but there's a wide gulf between doing them, and doing them with mastery.

EVERY fighter benefits from going back to basics, not just working on complex things. There aren't really that many fighters who are really good and consistent about the basics every time. But those things are the basics because they work.