Would you say this is true?

[John Locke]

Nope.

Every fight comes with different circumstances and like a couple of the lads above said, styles make fights.

[Syf]

True, but 'good' doesn't mean you had to win your last fight. Personally I try to keep an eye on the last few fights a fighter had to try to get a sense of their trajectory.

edit: And styles do make fights.

Basically. One fight can be an outlier to the norm but if a fighter starts with a pattern over several fights of promising or not so promising performances, it is a fairly accurate way to assess, so long as the level of competition is also assessed. Just look for patterns. But not false ones. Alotta promoters and networks are trying to gas people up.. Dig?

[KING MEAT]

pac looked alot better when he got knocked out than the previous one

[BUNGALOWS]

Styles make fights so no.

/thread.......

[A-Wolf]

Styles make fights so no.

Exactly. "You're only good as your last fight" is what fools people into believing hype and momentum can decide an outcome. Nature and the laws of reality decide outcomes.

[BroneloCalvarez]

not one bit

[sslg99]

your last fight doesnt define how good you are, but it plays a huge impact on how people view your skills.

[FrankieClutch]

In terms of a boxer studying his opponent, yes. Keith Thurman takes this approach. He only studies his opponents last fight because you can't improve that much. Improving takes a lot of time (most of the time), not one fight.

[A-Wolf]

Funny all the people speaking sense here and yet we have cats swinging from one hype job's nuts to the other like Tarzan through the jungle day after day, year after year. It's easy to talk I guess.

[mathed]

I'll make it simple, Bradley wins and the rest will inevitably lose. Time will ruin all fights unless they are smart....smart guys always finish first.