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Well... A lot of fighters obviously have a lot of things that can do. I would say there comes a point where a fighter has to reduce his tool bag to a fundamental orientation. Boxer puncher, puncher, pressure fighter, counter puncture, etc.
Matais applies pressure well but it's all centered around his punch. He wants to hit the other guy in such a way that the power of his punch well ultimately prevail. I would call him an excellent puncher who applies pressure at an elite level.
With Pitbull he really doesn't have an outstanding punch. He relies upon making his opponent unbalance by constantly trying to avoid his pressure. What he's really depending on is not the power of his punch, so much as catching his opponent off balance, pressuring to make his opponent make a mistake so he can counter and smother.
Let's look at an example of this. If you look at the gervantes fight, a fight I think Pitbull won by the way.. he can't take a straight punch that's been set up by somebody who can hit like gervantes or even Matisse.. instead by keeping them going back he robs them of their punching power. This is textbook what happened in the gervantes fight.
A straight puncher like Matisse really is depending on catching his opponent by applying pressure more than keeping his opponent unbalanced, to set up counters.
Matais applies pressure well but it's all centered around his punch. He wants to hit the other guy in such a way that the power of his punch well ultimately prevail. I would call him an excellent puncher who applies pressure at an elite level.
With Pitbull he really doesn't have an outstanding punch. He relies upon making his opponent unbalance by constantly trying to avoid his pressure. What he's really depending on is not the power of his punch, so much as catching his opponent off balance, pressuring to make his opponent make a mistake so he can counter and smother.
Let's look at an example of this. If you look at the gervantes fight, a fight I think Pitbull won by the way.. he can't take a straight punch that's been set up by somebody who can hit like gervantes or even Matisse.. instead by keeping them going back he robs them of their punching power. This is textbook what happened in the gervantes fight.
A straight puncher like Matisse really is depending on catching his opponent by applying pressure more than keeping his opponent unbalanced, to set up counters.
. That's a good question. The Monster is a pressure guy as I see it. Yes, volume, making his opponent reset constantly and make mistakes all the while breaking down the body. Did you mean to say more like cruz or matias? 
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