Getting fatigued can often be a development from the mental side as well as the physical side.
When your focus is pushed to a high level then you relax at the break or during a round you begin to mentally weaken.
The ultimate frame of mind is to be relaxed while maintaining a game plan and only heightening your intensity
when your opponent becomes vulnerable.
This is a very difficult discipline to achieve and their are very solid fighters who never get it.
Ali was a good example using this approach, Sugar Ray Robinson was another. The past greats had much more time to develop that discipline because they spent more time in fight rounds as opposed to the current day fighters wasting time in sparring rounds.
When you fight 8 times a year and 50% of the opponents are quality you have to advance your skill level or simply be eliminated. Today the top guys fight once a year and every other year is a weak opponent, they can't advance their skills with that approach.
Ray
When your focus is pushed to a high level then you relax at the break or during a round you begin to mentally weaken.
The ultimate frame of mind is to be relaxed while maintaining a game plan and only heightening your intensity
when your opponent becomes vulnerable.
This is a very difficult discipline to achieve and their are very solid fighters who never get it.
Ali was a good example using this approach, Sugar Ray Robinson was another. The past greats had much more time to develop that discipline because they spent more time in fight rounds as opposed to the current day fighters wasting time in sparring rounds.
When you fight 8 times a year and 50% of the opponents are quality you have to advance your skill level or simply be eliminated. Today the top guys fight once a year and every other year is a weak opponent, they can't advance their skills with that approach.
Ray
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