why have U.S. boxers always had slicker styles than the rest of the world?

1) it was the Brits that started professional boxing.

2) check the results throughout history when the Brits and Yanks face off. then get back to me. :good

 

Just trainers training differently, but I'm sure some of it is based on the general phenotype of the region. You aren't going to teach long tall slavics and Russians to get in close and bob and weave, so even Russians built like Frazier won't be likely to learn that style from a coach who trains a lot of guys like Kessler or the Klits.

My father is 72 years old, and as a very young man trained with Basilio and his handlers in New York - even they emphasized that particularly American style of head and foot movement that does not entirely rely on staying upright behind the jab, nor on peekaboo. In the 80s I remember him speaking with disdain about the "straight up" European fighters. The Mexican schools seem to be of two types: the macho attitude of going in there and relying on wearing down and chin and the technically supercorrect textbook style of Nacho with the high lead hand that never lowers, working everything behind the jab, and utilizing the uppercut even from the center of the ring. Obviously the modern world has evolved, but those old traditions die hard in a sport with the nationalistic history of boxing.

then there are stylistic outliers like Calzaghe, Pac, Jones, who just have a style that works for them and really don't fit to a pattern. The Midwest/Michigan boxers like the Mayweather family and James Toney do have a pretty regionally recognizable style.

 

the slick african american goes back to jack johnson....he was slick and defensive

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl Embarrassing atsch

 

The sad thing is he does.
He also doesn't have a passport weighs over 20 stone has a "piece" in his bedside drawer and can't work out how all of us are on this forum since we don't have internet access

 

Fan friendly means two bums standing in the middle of the ring trade shots like fools.

 

:deal

 

Boxing wasn't **** until it came to the states. You know it, I know it, everyone else on here knows it. USA invented boxing and that's why were the best. Calling a couple of organized British street fights the "invention" of boxing is blasphemy. You must be from the UK.

 

Boxing wasn't **** until it came to the states. You know it, I know it, everyone else on here knows it. USA invented boxing and that's why were the best.

 

Boxing wasn't **** until it came to the states. You know it, I know it, everyone else on here knows it. USA invented boxing and that's why were the best.

 

Yanks also invented English and it was Americans who discovered Europe

 

Seriously mate, you're just making yourself look even stupider. Stop for your own sake.

 

right, so boxing wasn't ****, UNTIL it went to the states, but then go on to claim that you guys invented boxing?

so you acknowledge that it was started else where you fool?

you're blasphemy to intelligence. stop posting you clown.

 

there are many that probably claim this.

 

its because they are black. simple as