Lost arts.

[Tom Cruise]

Bob & Weave

Especially at the heavyweight division.

That style kept the huge heavyweights out of the upper levels.

That style is the Dinosaur killer.

Yeah definitely agree with that. Would love to see a decent stocky HW come along with a good bob n weave style. The punches would come at these tall guys from way outside their eyeline.

[Kigali]

Yeah definitely agree with that. Would love to see a decent stocky HW come along with a good bob n weave style. The punches would come at these tall guys from way outside their eyeline.

Dinosaur killing punches.



That style is too grueling...you can't find anybody willing to work that hard at heavyweight.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

What techniques or skills would you say are lost arts?

I say inside fighting. You don't see it much anymore.

Inside fighting for sure. I'd say the shifting technique is not used much, except by some Russians. Pirog used it to knock out DJ. GGG uses it sometimes as does Kovalev, but it is very rare.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I'd also have to say that hardly any fighters move to their right, with the exception of GGG.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Inside fighting is a great example. I also think the game lacks elite pressure fighters. Today's pressure fighters are more like boxer punchers that prefer to operate at a distance. Cutting the ring, head movement, rolling, slipping, catching shots, working your jab to get inside and getting busy.

How much I miss Roberto Duran.

So very well said, sir.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I expected the first few posts to say cutting the ring off.

CUT
THE
FKIN
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OFF

That's a skill that's not even that hard to learn. Either he trainers suck or these guys don't listen. It's very basic stuff. Yet, I agree. So few actually do it in the ring anymore.

[BM dnobagaV]

Uppercuts. Amazed fighters didn't use it more often on Floyd along the ropes.

Body work on the elite level.

[CRM114]

Uppercut at close range:A lot of fighters back in the day used to let their uppercut go with their lead hand. Manny Steward fighters used to use this technique amazingly as did Buster Douglas when he KO'd Tyson.

Fighting out of the Clinch: Monzon-Benvenuti 2, you can see Benvenuti was trying to clinch to stuff Monzon's attack but Monzon bladed his body so that he would rip right hands to Benvenuti's body.

Doubling up on left hooks.

[SplitSecond]

Difficult to show off your inside fighting when referee's call a halt to the action once there is skin on skin contact. Look at Golovkin vs Jacobs rd 5, Jacobs naturally expecting a "Stap poonchin!" because he's initiated skin contact. Back in the day he'd have been sparked then and there.

This is also why we don't have the same pressure fighters such as Duran, you can't go after a guy the same way, if he initiates that skin on skin all that chasing was for naught, gotta keep some space between you and the him.

[Rock&Roll]

I expected the first few posts to say cutting the ring off.

CUT
THE
FKIN
RING
OFF

The amount of fighters who do this are numbered in single digits.

Kovalev is one p4p example. He is a 'stalker' and puts some pressure on, but he doesn't cut ring properly.

Who else apart from chocolatito and golovkin do this well?