Can the "slick" style be beaten?

[Trebuh]

thats a pretty dumb question if you ask me

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When I think of "slick" styles I think of Floyd, Judah, maybe Lara. Slippery, backpeddling. Usually boring to watch.

When people start including Hopkins (who has a very dirty, confrontational, throwback style and relies on smothering) I just assume they mean "black". Cause he fights nothing like those guys.

[alexguiness]

To be a true slickster you need the chin and heart of a champion as well.

[ADP02]

Tito needed to get set to deliver his power. Joppy was a good fighter who got hyped. Tito got hyped into a fight where he was Out gunned.

Plus bHop was too slick to sit on the ropes and let Tito get off. Bernard got off first and turned Tito when his back hit the ropes. Great stuff!

While Tito did beat Joppy, that was the fight in which I said, do not stay at 160 Tito as you will lose (to Hopkins) ... and he did. His power did not cross over well at that weight. Well, not to my liking at least. Maybe if he had a few more fights at 160, who knows.

No way he was going to beat Hopkins. Hopkins was too solid and well rounded fighter.

[techliam]

Any style can be beat on a given night , its not about a style its who is the holder of the style and how good is he .

Very rarely agree with Reloaded, but you're spot on here

Its partially why I challenge the strange consensus on here that boxing is 'hit and not be hit'. It can be, but not necessarily. Sometimes you gotta take some punches to land a bomb (or more effective punch). Boxing is about winning in the boxing ring.

On top of that, theres no perfect fighter. Because fighters are human. Some fighters could be close, but never perfect. As its the fighters that obviously employ styles, it means there can also be no perfect style in practice. In theory you could argue all day, but you wouldn't be right (or wrong).

[Larry the boss]

Floyd did not beat Pacquiao. And the style he used wasn't slick. It was stick. Duck and stick to Pacquiao. Punch and stick to Pacquiao. Then run. Then stick again if caught.

and this is exactly why this thread was made....to have another recycled discussion

[Larry the boss]

There was no slick that night but there was quite a bit of this ..... :

hell Manny is holding in 2 of those pictures

[bojangles1987]

"Slick" isn't a style.

[ADP02]

hell Manny is holding in 2 of those pictures

Sure, Manny was the problem ....

[Larry the boss]

Sure, Manny was the problem ....

Literally..you are the one who posted the pictures