He’s never had elite technical skills, he throws good combinations and has good timing but the footwork has never been great and he’s never been difficult to hit.
SSR’s best attributes have always been his physical strength, intense work-rate and lethal power. His weakness have always been guys who can box off the back foot and who have good lateral movement. That’s why he struggled in the past against guys like Cuadras.
I do think that something is missing in SSR though, that ruthless aggression seems to have diminished. I actually noticed it in the Iran Diaz fight, I expected SSR to blow through Diaz the same way Navarrette and Oubaali (to a lesser extent) did, but there wasn’t much intensity in Sor Rungvisai’s performance. At first I put it down to him not being motivated against an inferior opponent but the convincing loss to Estrada shows there’s more to it than that.
Maybe that now that’s he’s reached the top and made life changing money the hunger has gone, maybe it’s the problems in his personal life or maybe it’s just a decade long and hard career taking its toll.
Who knows?
SSR’s best attributes have always been his physical strength, intense work-rate and lethal power. His weakness have always been guys who can box off the back foot and who have good lateral movement. That’s why he struggled in the past against guys like Cuadras.
I do think that something is missing in SSR though, that ruthless aggression seems to have diminished. I actually noticed it in the Iran Diaz fight, I expected SSR to blow through Diaz the same way Navarrette and Oubaali (to a lesser extent) did, but there wasn’t much intensity in Sor Rungvisai’s performance. At first I put it down to him not being motivated against an inferior opponent but the convincing loss to Estrada shows there’s more to it than that.
Maybe that now that’s he’s reached the top and made life changing money the hunger has gone, maybe it’s the problems in his personal life or maybe it’s just a decade long and hard career taking its toll.
Who knows?

I still like him sometimes.
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