Does weight class predict fights and styles

Whenever I bet on fights I usually pick a fighter in the smaller weight classes to win on points as a general rule. Fights between 2 top fighters Middleweight and below usually go to a decision. This is true especially for the very low weight classes of 126 and below. They just don't punch that hard, even though smaller men cannot absorb as much force, still, it seems that the increase in punching power outpaces the increase in durability and ability to absorb as you climb the weight classes.

At 175 and higher I often see more value in betting on fights to go to a stoppage even between two top level fighters.

For example, if Beterbiev and Gvozdyk were natural Welterweights or Lightweights I'd pick Gvozdyk to win on points. Skill and movement would carry the day for Gvozdyk. If Foreman and Norton were Lightweights or Welterweights, I'd pick Norton to win on points. But they aren't. These are very large, extremely strong and powerful men. And they hit ungodly hard. Skill can only take you so far in the highest weight classes. You have to stand your ground and bang. Otherwise, you get walked down. I'd even pick Foreman to beat pre-exile Ali who liked to dance. That wouldn't have worked against Foreman, so Ali used a tactic called Rope A Dope to fatigue Foreman and get him to gas out. He didn't run from Foreman, he stood his ground.

If Donaire and Rigo were LHWs or HWs I'd have picked Donaire to stop him, but they aren't. They're tiny men fighting in weight classes where power can only take you but so far.

 

Could Inoue KO prime versions of any HOF or ATG? He couldn't even stop a 36 year old Donaire. Have some perspective FFS. Fighters in the low weights (even those with supposedly hands of stone) almost always fail to stop the top level guys. Whereas at 175 and higher it is the norm.

 

Donaire looks like a chicken wing and a lesbian, and Inoue couldn't even stop him at 36. Norton, Frazier, Gvozdyk, Smith jr., etc. look like they swallow nails for breakfast. And Foreman and Beterbiev were taking em out! The toughest men on the planet and they were just taking em out!

 

Trolling you pretty damn good I'd say!

 

If I didn't recognize Inoue's face I'd have thought the person in your avatar was a chick!

 

Joker gets very defensive about Inoue. It's too easy.

 

Whatever you say, Tomato Can