Inside fighting seems like a lost art

[Tha_Greatest]

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[TonyGe]

Was watching the Eubanks Jr fight and all he did was hold anytime he got close.. I have noticed this a lot in boxing, what happened to working in the trenches?? Is inside fighting not being taught anymore?

The refs don't call excessive holding like they used to.

[Tom Cruise]

I agree with the premise of the thread but i agree with others that Eubank is not a good example. Not so far in his career or Saturday night.

Other examples of good inside fighters imo are Badou Jack, Lamont Peterson and (still raw but developing) Anthony Joshua.

Spence is more midrange but ive seen him do good inside work.

In general it is not the same level as you could see in the past from almost all fighters.

[Tom Cruise]

My favourite inside fights are Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard and Henry Armstrong vs Baby Arizmendi. Inside fighting was an art every bit as technical as outfighting or counter punching to these guys.

Armstrong and Duran are the GOAT inside fighters imo. A fight between these two would have been unreal.

[BoxingFan85]

Eubank throws a lot of upper cuts on the inside, that's his best punch and his power punch too.. he doesn't have a great hook or straight right..
He was holding a bit so that Yildrim tries to push or punch then he would push a few uppercuts through..

[Tom Cruise]

What pisses me off is when aggressive pressure fighters cant fight inside. Like GGG or Matthysse.

Their opponent holds their feet and you think that should be when they go to work, but they are infinitely more comfortable on the chase than up close and personal.

Try that **** with JCC and you'd better be Sweet P good otherwise you are getting ****ed up.

[sicko]

Erickson Lubin and David Benevidez both 20 years old and they already have probably the best inside game in their Division already! Anthony Yarde is also a beast on the inside and is nasty to the body. So it is a few up and coming guys who are being trained well and loves working on the inside but yeah overall I would say it is a Lost Art to the point in which a lot of guys just tie up and look around for the Ref to come break them

I like Duran, James Toney, Mike McCallum and Chavez Sr styles on the inside, Tuck those arms and WORK on the inside!

[DrHouse579]

It is a dying art. Also referee's these days don't do much to help that either. If one fighter doesn't want to fight inside, he just has to clinch for 2 seconds and the ref steams in and breaks it up. I used to see ref's telling fighters to work out of the clinches but it's very rare to see it these days.

This ^

To add on to that, inside fighting truly requires both fighters to be willing to engage in it. If one guy simply just wants to tie up, more often than not the inside fighter isn't going to be very effective. The vast majority of clinches in Ward Kovalev I was initiated by Kovalev, making the rounds very close and hard to score as a result

[LetOutTheCage]

everytime they got close, he held or they both literally just stood there

What are you talking about? Eubank was consistent with throwing uppercuts in the inside he caught Yildirim in the first round with an uppercut and dropped him. Do you even watch the fights before making threads like this?