Fighters that often fought the wrong fight?

I also think that Hagler was for the most part fighting the wrong fight against Roberto Duran.

Michael Moorer fighting off the ropes against Tua and Cooper (which did win him the fight but not without being knocked down twice) and going for the KO against George Foreman.

 

What, that psychotic guy throwing a tantrum?

 

We have a lovely current fighter in Jermain Taylor that embodies this. I honestly think his lack of ring generalship prevented him from dominating the middleweights for a decade. As it is, he's nothing special, but he had the genes imo.

 

good ppint he fought to tentative but Roberto did fight a great fight

 

Jerry Quarry - Tried to play it cagey with Jimmy Ellis (Bad Back Contributing ?) - then Went toe-to-toe with Joe Frazier

Now if he had fought Ellis like a Demon and boxed Frazier who knows ?

 

i think emanuel augustus fits the topic well,

i always get frustrated watching him fight (as much as i love watching him fight) because he fights his opponents exactly the way to make it "a fight" or exiting. he played into wards game, into weis game and into johnsons game with a good deal of success but augustus is such a jack of all trades that he i had a sense that he could win boring instead of lose trading.

 

Good call .I think Minter was influenced by the crowd,he would not have won,imo,but brawling with Hagler was not a smart move.

 

whatever the hell reggie strickland was doing in all his loses has him fighting the wrong fight lmao

 

George Foreman vs Ali.

Trainers are the reason, even though George was no dancer.

Perhaps allowing Ali to circle him would have been a better option, as the trainers should have told Foreman to pull things up for 6 rounds.

I doubt George was trained to last, or physically capable of lasting with a man for 10 rounds and finishing off a great fighter in the closing rounds.

 

i don't think he was either

 

Lloyd Honeyghan against Starling

 

Oscar de la Hoya fought the wrong fight a few times in his career. e.g.

- Trying to outbox Whitaker

- Thinking he was the bigger, stronger guy and being the aggressor in the first Mosley fight

- Abandoning the jab after he was having such success keeping Mayweather off balance with it

- Choosing to cruise against Tito when he knew there had been a lot of dissenters putting pressure on judges because of their past favouratism towards Oscar against Pea and Quartey.

- Not retaliating against John John Molina when he was being dirty as **** and getting away with it. If Oscar gave as many cheap shots as he received he would have made it much easier on himself imo.

 

First name that came to my mind when I saw this thread.

He had a history of either choosing the wrong gameplan, or being lured away from the right gameplan in mid fight.