Whatever Happened to "Switching?"

Do any fighters really incorporate it anymore outside guys from former Soviet Bloc countries? I've seen GGG do it and saw Dmitry Pirog switch into a brutal KTFO over Danny Jacobs. I haven't seen the KO in a while but remember as I was watching it as it happened thinking "holy ****, this dudes switching" while simultaneously thinking Jacobs was so befuddled by the whole scenario that he was like WTF is this. I mean, you could literally see the KO 2 seconds before it happened, Jacobs - a world-class fighter just totally dumbstruck by the whole thing.

 

Tyson Fury does it smoother than a middleweight.

 

Everyone that comes out of the Ingle gym switches

 

Crawford.

 

I don’t remember Golovkin ever switching and I don’t see Pirog doing it.

I suspect you’re talking about “shifting”?

If you genuinely mean switching, Tyson Fury is the best I’ve seen.

Edit: Just watched the Pirog KO. Yeah. I think what you’re talking about is more often called “shifting.”

 

Bud Crawford is a big switch hitter.

 

Jeff Horn switch hits, but only for very short periods of time, as do many other fighters.

 

by switching,do you mean what used to be commonly called shifting or sliding perhaps?

 

and GGG shifts an awful lot in almost all if not every every fight I have seen him in. He uses it to bridge the gap and to stay off the center line

 

Ya I was just watching a sports radio TV show talking about getting a switch hitter and must have stuck in my mind. Couldn't think back to ever seeing Tyson Fury doing it or anyone out of the Ingle gym I was like whats wrong here? Thanks bud.

 

Ya, I was rewatching a GGG fight on YT and it got me thinking about it but the was watching a baseball program and it was talking about the Red Sox getting someone who can switch hit.

 

For shifting, Golovkin is the only boxer I know who does it regularly.

Yeah. I don’t know why he’s not imitated more if he has such success with it.

Perhaps the next generation of middleweights will be all shifters or whatever.

 

Because he gets hit by more experienced fighters when he does.
He was shifting against Monroe and got flurried, shifted against Brook and caught multiple uppercuts, shifted against Jacobs and was getting hit and didn't bother for Canelo. GGG is good but his ability to be punch is suspect.

 

Here's the thing though GGG has undergone a technical and physical decline in recent years. If you go back and watch him in his true prime which are his fights in Europe and his early fights here in America he's simply a better fighter who doesn't make the same mistakes nearly as often. His reflexes are shot now. He's getting by entirely with his jab, timing and power now. He's scraping by a guy like Canelo who 4 years ago he would beat the living pis out of.

 

jarret hurd shifted and switched a lot against trout