No. Way. Trying to teach someone to box like Archie would be like trying to teach someone how to bail out a submarine with a thimble. Partly because of this... ...but mainly because the type of feel Moore had for an opponent and the ring is a thing that is nearly impossible to learn but completely impossible to teach.
Yeah, Micheal Watson. Watson's style is based upon rules outlined in technique, they are "fundamental" rules which can be taught, they don't require as much slick riffing as the Butter style requires.
You may have a point there...but what I would do is try to develop a guy into a defensive, smart boxer with good technical fundamentals. I know you can't always be blessed with "smarts", but you can be a manufactured fighter with good tech skills. I'd have a guy learn to use the jab well and to utilize effective but not neccesarily flashy footwork...to not be knockout happy but go for points wins. To be a technician has always appealed to me.
It may also be a pipe dream to emulate Napoles unless the fighter had some of Mantequilla's innate natural gifts.
I have a question. Did archie literally invent the shoulder roll/counter right hand...that toney and hopkins replicate today? I have never seen a fighter on film execute this technique so perfectly the way Archie does it...prior to Moore.
That is true of all these mentions to a degree. I mean, you can't polish a turd But yeah, some of the names being tossed about here are asking a lot of any young man.