Style differences in pro and amateur boxing

It's harder to knock out guys in the amateurs with the headgear and bigger gloves, so I imagine boxing would be stressed more. Otherwise, I'm as curious as you.

 

Pro's it's more of picking your shots off rather than just throwing. Also usually in amateurs the faster fighter wins, but not always

 

I agree you need to pick your shots more in the Pro's than in the am's as you cannot throw punches as much over the course of 4-12 rounds as you only have 3 rounds in the ams. And in terms of faster fighter ussually winning I don't think thats true. Skill seems to be the biggest factor to be honest, just like it is in the pros, followed by speed and stamina. When I watched the olympics this summer it seemed many of the USA's quicker fighters were beaten by Europeans who were better technicians. Fighters who's only asset is the power of there punch may have a hard time in the amauters.

But going back to the topic I think that amauters put out more punches per round than a pro does and an amauter match is ussually fought at a faster pace. The scoring in AM's is done by whoever lands more clean punches, meaning the power of these punches doesn't matter as long as there is a decent amount of force behind it. In other words someone like say Rocky Marciano would have a hard time in amauter boxing as his style wasn't much about landing more punches, it was about doing more damage.

 

Don't get me wrong it still helps to have a hard punch in the amatuers but a hard punch there won't take you quite as far as it might in the pro's.

 

Pros: more selective punch choice and less punches usually. More importantly, pros plant their feet more when they throw to maximize power. Amateurs tend to bounce around more, reducing their power but allowing them to move in and out to rack up points. This is a huge generalization though.

 

Its all to do with the scoring system and how that effects the tatics in the ams. Read a interview with David Haye who said he would not trade his newly turned pro fighters for the olympians, because thier style is better suited to the pros.

 

amatuers is a sprint pros is a marathon

a pro has to use a longer drawn out plan working the body picking there shots better etc...

1 important thing is ring generalship which is scored on the pros but not the ams this is the most important thing about boxing.

 

But then again, the cubans (faster guys) usually always dominate in the amateurs, but you don't hear much about them in the pros

 

The reason they do well is because there fighters are brought up to fight in the amauters from a young age and their training is extreme. There were a few documentaries I saw about Cuban boxing training, this explains why they are so dominant in the amauters. Cuba being a communist country and all doesn't take to kindly to having their fighters turn pro. I bet if communism in cuba wasn't existant you would have a surge of good cuban fighters in coming years. Just as after the berlin wall fell you had more and more good pro's coming from the USSR.

 

ive read something on bbc sports page recently that amateur boxing is going to go to 3x3 rounds now which will help the switch over from am to pro because there wont be as much of a difference as it wont be as much of a sprint in the am with longer rounds

 

Makes sense, like lara and my trainer. My trainer escaped after the pan american games and became an olympic coach, and lara escaped to become one of the up and coming contenders

 

Happened at the beginning of the year. Open class is now 3x3, novice is still 3x2. That's in the 'elite' (formerly senior) age group. Not sure about the other ones.