Why don't any boxers use this kind of stance anymore?

[Uncle Rodge]

That's the white boy style, the white boy don't/didn't know sht about proper mechanics.

It looks like the lean back from everything style the ******ed kids on the street use when fighting. They called it the Limbo.

I think you'll find that way back in 1992; Woody Harrelson unquestionably proved that white men can in fact jump.

Sit down with your proper mechanics girlfriend.

[BigAlexSand]

You never see it these days, do you think someone could bring it back and have success with it?

The stance is used for taller fighters; allows the jab to be thrown with with less distance to the target and allows you to push the opponents jab away. I was tough the style very early but for a very short period of time; this was as my trainer put it "allowed you to learn to throw a jab with more power and learn distance."

[New England]

because they're afraid of greatness.

[BigAlexSand]

I'm not saying no black fighters used this style, I'm saying white boys invented it.

Obviously never watched Johnson... The man perfected the "white boy" style... But at the same time made it useless when Wilard put him on his ass..

[kafkod]

Obviously never watched Johnson... The man perfected the "white boy" style... But at the same time made it useless when Wilard put him on his ass..

They both fought "white boy" style.

Maybe if "slick" had been invented back then, Johnson would have won.

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serious answer: gloves

that style comes from bare knuckle and just lingered for a while

[Juof]

this allows you to get inside and throw in the shoeshine

[therealpugilist]

They both fought "white boy" style.

Maybe if "slick" had been invented back then, Johnson would have won.

Johnson was exiled from the US, like 37 years old, and not training very diligently

Prime Johnson makes a fool out of Willard who just was huge and had a big overhand right

[NChristo]

Because it was only ever really used when the boxer was having his photo took ?.

[-Kev-]

It's an unathletic stance. If you notice people who can't fight/unathletic people use that stance, they don't even know they're using it, it's just how they put their hands up. I think if you try that in boxing now, you would get eaten up alive by C class fighters.