Always found Asian fighters like Japan and Korea, to be awfully crouching, like your Changs, Harada's, Fuji's, even Oguma to an extent etc... But I'm not that clued up and there is afew stand-up types like Gushiken.
:thumbsup..Excellent thread topic flea...drink on! I can suggest the argentine area of Mendoza..the home town of Hugo Corro. An article I read about him after his death mentioned that there's so-called "Mendoza School" that teaches the safety first approach that our boy Hugo so masterfully represented...so the distaste of even other areas of Argentina. (but not me)
Yeah, that's more a trait than style. It would be like me saying modern Europeans tend to have trouble fluidly mixing offense and defense. Except that might be more true.
uh huh, more So Europeans though. The Ghana one is the best idea of what the thread is going for so far. This is not a geographically style, but you see a lot of mimic Klitschko's at the London Olympics out of Ukraine and Russia. That happens all the time with people trying to fight like the current champion, especially the hometown one. Argentinian fighters seem to be of a split dichotomy. You get the "swag" showboat, smooth boxer types (Locche, Martinez, Naravez, and Peralta). And then you get the straight up brawlers/punchers, and more crude operators (Firpo, Bonavena, Maidana, Baldomir, Matthysee). And then there's Monzon. Kind of split in the middle.
A lot of Ghana's best fighters seemed to adopt a high water tight-guard as already mentioned. They also tend be stocky, powerfully built guys well able to use their strength to their advantage. They seem to work in mid to close range fighting in spurts to, exploding from their high guard with volleys of shots, particularly the uppercut and hook. Or I could be wrong, who knows:good A lot of Argentinians seem to be rugged aggressive slugger who favour the looping overhand right. They've had as many stylists as sluggers though I suppose. Everyone knows all about the Mexicans, their brilliance when it comes to bodypunching, and the terrific look hooks their world class fighters come equipped with. They usually aren't the most defensively capable fighters, using their offence as their defence somewhat. Although an excellent defensive fighter like Miguel Canto can disprove the stereotype. I know its not a style as such, more a trait, but a load of Panamanians ive watched tended to be loose and languid, tall and rangy kind of fighters who seem very relaxed in the ring Cuabano's tend to be very unorthodox fighters, often with low guards, who rely on reflexes and make great use of angles.
This is possibly down to mimicking the best of their time. I'd say Froch and Haye have had a strong Hamed influence. Hamed has a Graham and Eubank influence. Graham has maybe an Ali influence about him, Eubank maybe a Burley/Marshall influence to him via NYC. In the 80s you had a ton of Ali influenced boxers. These days you have quite a few poor Mayweather imitations.
A lot of the better Puerto Ricans tend to be smooth boxer-punchers who throw well in combination. Some are more aggressive, like Trinidad and Chapo, while others tends to rely a bit more on countering (like Benitez and Calderon), but the combination punching tends to be a fairly common trait among the best products to come from that region.
I think of Australian fighters as being extremely physically strong and reliant on conditioning and aggression, usually on the crude side.
I thought you were going to say they are bucking any trend, namely Froch. but Oh well. I don't thing these fighters styles are influenced by any you mentioned least of all Eubank and a Burley or Marshall. the Ingle influence sure and for this mans money the worst style ever brought to a British ring.
Absolutely, and it should not even be called 'The Ingle Style', it was 'The Graham Style'. The style held back potential brilliance in Naseem, it ruined potential in Johnny Nelson and Ryan Rhodes, and I dread to think of the amount of fighters who did not even get on the radar, trying to fight that way. Even Herol Graham never quite lived up to hype. Kudos for Ingle, for helping the community with his facilities. That is more important than anything he achieved as a boxing trainer. Not least because he was not a good one.