Skilled Counter-Puncher vs Skilled Pressure Fighter

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  1. Showstopper97

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    Who do you think generally has the edge? Name some examples of fights with these style match-ups.
     
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    Spinks-Qawi
     
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    Jmm vs pac is the best example I can think of
     
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    Good shouts! Fenech vs Nelson and Laguna vs Saldivar are text book examples.
     
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    Skilled Counter-Puncher vs Skilled Pressure Fighter? The pressure fighter has the edge, especially if he can hit assuming neither has a glass jaw.

    Counter-punchers work best vs slower handed non power     punching opponents, usually with the hook as a counter, almost never counting a jab with their own jab.
     
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    Holyfield vs Quawi is the definition of this
     
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    Definitive in the modern era for me was Calzaghe-Hopkins. Studying that fight is time well spent. Chief among the interest for me is how the volume puncher's output is reduced by a genuine skilled counter-puncher. That's how you tell a really good one I think.
     
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    Duran was pretty much both.
     
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