So what “style advantage” did Ruiz have over Joshua?

Style advantage, as a thing, isn't nearly as big in proportion as it has assumed in your mangled head. It certainly isn't anything like as big in proportion as a thing as you seem to think it is in my head. A fighter can have a major style advantage and win or lose, a fighter can have a minor style advantage and win or lose.

The way you obsess over this is not healthy. Try and forget about it, you'll be happier.

 

Look, talking to you is literally the most boring thing a person can do on this forum.

The reason the second post in this thread where I say this thread is weird has more likes than any other post in this thread is because it is weird.

You're a Marciano obsessive who has been handled a few times over Marciano and can't let it go; this styles thing is where your obsession has crystallised. It's impossible for you to understand what's said because you don't want to understand what's said. I'm not about to hold your hand through a series of explanations you will make unnecessarily complicated and difficult and which you won't be able to remember or will pretend not to be able to remember in three months anyway.

choklab, you've claimed in numerous discussion with me that you have had an extensive amateur boxing background and have boxed professionally. As you know, i don't really believe this because some of the posts you make about boxing are so woefully bad it seems unlikely.

But it might be true. This puts me in a difficult position. I consider you to have a reduced mental capacity. This reduced mental capacity may, if you truly do have, say, 100 amateur fights and 15 professional fights, be explained by some form of pugilistic brain damage. I want you to continue to enjoy the forum, which you clearly do, but I'm not going to continue to answer the strange, tormented questions like those in the second paragraph above.

If you really don't understand the concept of one fighters natural style lending itself to another natural style, I suggest you buy and read "Box Like The Pros" by Joe Frazier. He breaks down basic style advantages better than I ever could and will further your understanding from a static position.

 

Yes, that's pretty much it. AJ fought as a box-puncher but one that didn't know how to refute his opponent forcing him to lead. He also didn't even seem to try to make Ruiz lead before he got put on his ass.

 

So, in your professional boxing opinion, style advantages in boxing DO exist?

 

of course.

Yes! What you have just described is a style advantage. When you read "style advantage" just substitute those words for "Natural styles do lend better to other styles".

That should be the end of the problem.