"Running and Potshotting" vs. "Ring Generalship and Distance Control"

It depends who is making the classification and how popular the fighter is. There's no universal criteria here. For instance, if you're a fan of someone like Margarito, anyone who boxes and moves is a "runner", because you need to defend the fact that your hero the definitive plodder of his generation.

Sometimes, you even see people who don't mind someone like Dirrell, but then they call him a "runner" because they prefer Carl Froch. People are often inconsistent in their classification.

I figure someone is running if they are clearly avoiding action and not landing on their opponent. Someone who is outlanding his opponent while controlling the pace of the fight is a true ring general.

 

Great post. End thread.

 

That's a fact and a sad one.

 

It's running and potshotting when a fighter I don't like does it.

Ring generalship and distance control if I like the fighter.

 

watch Mayweather's fights with castillo, Marquez, baldomir...and then the mid-distance mastery of kalambay vs McCallum, Graham, Collins etc and you shall be illuminated.

 

Spinks vs Mayorga = running.

 

Going in hard on Cotto.

Seems Cotto's latest fights he has been on his bicycle. Problem is that he trains to plant and kill the body. So he always runs out of gas on his bicycle.

 

And Clottey proceeded to do nothing to take a fight he would've won had he just DONE something.

 

Mayorga was on his butt like stink on poo!

 

Good point, people naturally have style preferences and this will subjectify the process.