Loma lost to Teo due to a bad strategy where he started way to slow. Ali beat Foreman using the rope-a-dope Tszyu destrpyed himself vs Bahkram trying to take him out early and rushing in. Oscar took rounds off vs Trinidad which cost him the decision. Which fighters used a good strategy that got them the win, or a bad one which cost them the fight?
Wut? but isn't that how almost every fight play out. One fighter having better strategy than the other thus granting them the win.
Off top of my head, and fairly recent too , I remember watching the yarde vs benavidez fight and trying to figure out what yarde game plan actually was-baffled me Slow starts are a common bad approach imo, there’s been a few caught out just giving away early rounds, eubank jr vs Saunders was a bit like this iirc
Yep the Jr Saunders one you could see Jr paced the fight wrong and let too many early rounds drift. I also think for him the mitigating circumstances were he had never done 12rds before as a pro, only been in one scheduled 10 round fight that ended at the end of the 1st stanza and had only gone to two 8 round decision cruise wins twice.
Would of lost anyway but Minter deciding to firefight Marvin Hagler was very miscalculated. Minter was a good boxer-puncher not a heavy handed take center ring guy who bled like a tea bag, very poor gameplan.
Nathan Cleverly's gameplan against Kovalev was perhaps the dumbest gameplan of any elite boxer ever. His plan was literally to walk to Kovalev with pressure.........................Kovalev...................KOVALEV!!!! I thought Cleverly was a math genius or some ****...............clearly not
It wasn't because of his "bad strategy". Loma isn't that good, thus he couldn't outclass Teo in the first half.
Pretty much Haglers only weakness, his embarrassment of options. Sometimes led to tactical befuddlement. Excessive cagey-ness in the first Antuofermo fight gave them the opportunity to find the draw. That was a pretty big tactical own goal also.
Razor Ruddock deciding to add a new wrinkle to his game against Lennox Lewis, a poorly executed jab to the body.
Lewis game plan v Rahman compounded by filming Oceans 11, turning up in South Africa and not factoring in altitude training, way too late to acclimatize!