Best style of boxing for starting late into the sport?

The Martinez style of fighting with you arms kept low. :deal

Though, this only works if you have a background in cycling. :yep

 

A Carlos Palomino type of style.

 

You don't really choose your style.

You learn the standard textbook basics like everybody else, and once you have around 100 rounds of sparring you'll start to develop your own sort of style based on what works for you in sparring. Then you fight your amateur fights and continue to develop. It's a mistake to pick a 'style' and train that way.

(I fight a lot like Kovalev, but against guys who are better than me I always revert to the way Figueroa fought Burns. If they're way better than me I use Amir Khan's style from rounds 10-12 against Maidana.)

 

Funny and insightful. Good work my friend.

 

erislandy lara. put on your running shoes

 

Don't go southpaw, it'll be weird learning fundamentals with your trainer

 

I find this to be mostly true. I started boxing in my twenties, and when I first started sparring I would use my reach to stay on the outside and then look for 1-2's - very Wlad-esque really. I ended up thinking 'this is my style', until I became more experienced and found myself, to my surprise, to be a naturally more aggressive fighter who would look to close the distance and push the opponent back.

I think, starting late as I did, that initially I was reluctant to get hit and so fought in that manner. Once I had settled in, my true instinct came to the fore and my style changed.

 

Learn from Golovkin. He's not relying on just physical gifts, but good fundamentals and solid technique.

 

Actually if you decided to go southpaw, go ahead if you're looking to go the unorthodox route. If you been training a year now as a SP, you're probably gonna notice that your jab is pretty strong in an orthodox stance.

 

Your lifestyle, level of dedication, and being able to recognize your strengths and weaknesses will help in letting you know where you are. It is very rare where a person is a natural born fighter. Idc who you are, all the greats were taught how to fight and went thru the phases to get from one level to the next and paid their dues. Your going to be in with kids half your age, but with double the ring experience so putting pride aside is a must. I'd work twice as hard as the next guy, boxing it forgives no one, so you need to be very open minded to suggestions and what might work for you might not for someone else. There will be days where you might have to suck it up and deal with an injury or pain. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't have much grit, a less talented fighter will humble you. Nothin is set in stone, you learn as you go.

 

pretty much this sums up everything. If you have a GF tell her that boxing comes first.

 

Go try and emulate mayweather, see how that works out for you lmfao

 

Watch Joe Calzaghe nobody could beat that man and every style tried.