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This is the new term you are going to become familiar with.
Thurman uses it a lot, when he describes how Floyd used to work his way through fights. Then, Thurman used it to describe his own performance against Garcia, particularly the second half of the fight.
And I heard Jacobs trainer use it to.
It sounds good, doesn't it? "Finessing". Kinda makes you think of something being done with supreme skill.
You wanna know what it really means? What is it a euphemism for?
It's when your game plan is cautious, when you try to play the system, when you circle the ring and be awkward and flurry out, especially in the last 30 seconds. It's when you don't want to take risks, but are hoping the judges will fall for what it is you do, which you seem to think works on a higher skill level to what your opponent (invariably a flat-flooted plodder) is doing.
Let's get REAL for a second.
Jacobs was tight, he was cautious, he was wild, he was off balance, he hung on in there, he was awkward but he got controlled by a smaller, older fighter who he clearly outweighed by a weight class. Golovkin was in control of that fight, Jacobs couldn't really break the defence of a guy who didn't need to run around the ring to avoid punches. Golovkin's jab was on point, his defence was on point, he had the added advantage of a KD, he hurt Jacobs other times too. I'm going to blow your mind - Golovkin OUT-BOXED Jacobs, who was graded on a curve because expectations of him were so low.
But as long as people keep being seduced by the idea that the fighter on the backfoot "finessing" his way through the fight is the more skillful, the more you are going to see fighters play the system, hoping to eke out tight decisions.
Thurman uses it a lot, when he describes how Floyd used to work his way through fights. Then, Thurman used it to describe his own performance against Garcia, particularly the second half of the fight.
And I heard Jacobs trainer use it to.
It sounds good, doesn't it? "Finessing". Kinda makes you think of something being done with supreme skill.
You wanna know what it really means? What is it a euphemism for?
It's when your game plan is cautious, when you try to play the system, when you circle the ring and be awkward and flurry out, especially in the last 30 seconds. It's when you don't want to take risks, but are hoping the judges will fall for what it is you do, which you seem to think works on a higher skill level to what your opponent (invariably a flat-flooted plodder) is doing.
Let's get REAL for a second.
Jacobs was tight, he was cautious, he was wild, he was off balance, he hung on in there, he was awkward but he got controlled by a smaller, older fighter who he clearly outweighed by a weight class. Golovkin was in control of that fight, Jacobs couldn't really break the defence of a guy who didn't need to run around the ring to avoid punches. Golovkin's jab was on point, his defence was on point, he had the added advantage of a KD, he hurt Jacobs other times too. I'm going to blow your mind - Golovkin OUT-BOXED Jacobs, who was graded on a curve because expectations of him were so low.
But as long as people keep being seduced by the idea that the fighter on the backfoot "finessing" his way through the fight is the more skillful, the more you are going to see fighters play the system, hoping to eke out tight decisions.
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