"X can win on points, but if Y connects it is over"

It applies to the big hitters vs boxer matchups. It's finishing ability that counts, not punching power and that's a main reason why the ko guys lose that big ko % when they have to fight top 10 competition. Elite competition doesn't get that why by having a history of getting ko'd, as does the C and B grade fighters.

 

Billy Conn vs. Bob Foster at 175?

 

Call me ignorant if you like, but why is it a fallacy?

 

It applies to Manny Pacquiao vs Pipino Cuevas

 

It's more of a cliché than a fallacy.

 

Ah, fair enough then.

 

It certainly isn't a fallacy, depending on the match-up.

Two good forthcoming examples include Bradley-Abregu next month, and Sylvester-Karmazin tomorrow.

In both cases, the superior boxer and prohibitive favorite to win a decision would have to be considered to be in major trouble if the puncher is able to land something clean with authority (especially true in these cases - where Sylvester's punch resistance is exacerbated by the wars he's been in, and Bradley is the much physically smaller man and already showed a little vulnerability against men his own size).

 

Roy Jones vs Bob Foster.

 

To be really accurate it should be "if Y connects in the right spot, at the right time of the fight/round and can follow up on it, it's over."

Alos sometimes the slugger wins a decision by intimidating the boxer into passivity/defensiveness.

 

that's a good one, but even still Roy Jones could get the knockout himself.

 

Ward/Green to a degree.

 

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