Career Hinges - Fights that caused fighters to change styles ..

The irony

 

Ezzard Charles after the Baroudi fight.

 

The Fitz-Creedon fight seems to have been a turning point for both.

It seems to have been when Fitz became much more aggressive than in earlier fights

According to Creedon it was after this loss he started not looking after himself, though that's not really a stylistic change.

 

Eubank after Watson

RJJ after McClellan and Benn's fight.

 

The Harry Potter of Classic, haha.

 

Can you explain that please? Did Roy Jones change his style intentionally because of McClellan's injury? Is there any source for that?

 

Roy visited G-Man after the injury and it changed him. I'm going off memory so don't have an exact source but I do recall him saying something to the effect that "He wouldn't go out intentionally to harm another fighter". He certainly seemed more content to get decision wins towards the end of his prime.

Once you lose the killer instinct, there's a Clubber Lang around the corner waiting to take your girl and make her feel like a real woman.

 

Hahaha funny end. And big thx for your explanation.

 

I always think Ali made such unique adjustments to his style, I don't think he could've adapted it much better in the 72-75 time period like you suggested previous. Obviously though Ali didn't know when to hang up the gloves and his style became beyond adaptation as his physical skills faded.

 

Eddie Futch developed Frazier into a bob & weave fighter after the first Bonavena bout. He was fighting more upright and got caught repeatedly walking in.

 

Yes! Good one! There was a major change in Charles after that fight!

 

Ruiz vs Tua, turned John into a manhugger not a brawler or boxer (I don't know what his prior style was exactly) but he became defense first. To an aside I saw him get angry and score a first round ko back in the day. He used to say "boxing is weird, you kind of need to get angry at your opponent." That's where Norman stone came in to help with that. Ruiz was probably a scrappler, just a talentless tough guy. For a guy with no ability he got the most out of his career.

Let's see a parade in Puerto Rico, and dinner at the whitehouse. He was the first Latino heavyweight of pr descent. A real good guy, but disrespected by fans.

Matter of fact he changed his style twice, to become fan friendly he became a pugilist in the Toney fight. It wasn't a beautiful display of boxing but he sure had great stamina I'll tell you that. No clinches at all.

Both of his losses to middleweights were a little bit tainted: vs Roy he was fighting off the ref he said "it was weird you know what I mean? I felt like the ref was against me ". Mostly for not allowing Johnny to work on the inside allowing Jones to clinch and then break.

In the the Toney fight he was going through an identity crisis, plus James tested positive for steroids. Listening to ruiz' story on YouTube is like a legend- he used to run in the morning before school, go to the gym after school plus do homework on top of that. I'm really glad he went far, he's a really good humble guy, the quiet man john Ruiz.

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