Adrian Broner: The Flawed Afro-American Style

How the hell is Zab Judah 'one dimentional' when he as 28 knockouts?

 

Broner has a flashy style, but lacked actual substance.

His style is deceiving to think he has skills, as we tend to think defensive counter punching equals high skill.

But in the end, his punches where ineffective and he looked sloppy defensively.

 

so:

i get it tho...the key to being a good fighter of any kind is finding a balance. :good

 

True, Clottey is a good example of that. If you don't amount to some sort of offense, guys will completely outwork you. Broner did well in spots, but he seemed like he was afraid to get hit even when he was coming forward.

 

Effective defensive countering such does require high skill. This guy was trying to be Mayweather, and looked like ****.

 

I believe he has the skills, but not the confidence to pull the trigger. He seemed to afraid at what might come back at him. He tried to hard to pull off a poor mans version of Floyd, and if not for the fixed scorecards, would have had his first loss against Ponce "the wild man" LOL.

 

Judah has power dude. He's doing more duck and weave cuz of the Pea in his corner.

 

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.
(Ishmael Reed)

Hit without getting Hit thats boxing.

 

I don't think you can call any style multi dimensional. It's just one type of style, whether it's "African-American" style, Slugger, Swarmer or whatever. If you look at the the best fighters in boxing. They possess the qualities of various styles. Okay, so Dirrell, Jacobs, and other African American fighters are slick, quick and great counter-punchers, but you need more than that to be great. Then you have tough, come forward fighters like Margarito, Hatton, Andrade all had or have decent chins, but don't have the skills to maintain these chins after all the punishment they take.

The better fighters possess multi-dimensions in their styles:

Pirog showed that he's a tough and powerful puncher, but also he has a great head-movement like many great African American boxers.

Calzaghe - even though he was a swarmer had a great chin, was able to counter punch if needed and adapt most situations.

Tim Bradley is another fighter that has a bit of everything, nothing special but can apapt.

Mayweather and Toney with their African American styles also have great chins and are able to out brawler a brawler if needed.

I'm stating the obvious here, but no style, African-American, Irish, Mexican or whatever label they give these days can survive on it's own.

This is why these boxers have less flaws and can adapt. Most of the ATG's like Leonard, Robinson, Duran, Pep, had abilities beyond their style that made them greats.

You can get a prospect that fights exactly like Sugar Ray Leonard, same movement and everything. Everyone calls him the saviour of American boxing, then he steps up and we see that he's just another fighter with templated style, but lacks the other qualities that Leonard had.

This is the reason why younger fighters like Khan, Alvarez might become World Champions. But they will never become all time greats, because they don't have attributes outside of their existing styles to adapt at the elite level against elite fighters.

 

I'm trippin' that they used "Afro-American" in the title. Who says that anymore?:huh

I would rather he used the term "Black".

 

You know "Afro" is a Hairstyle Right?

 

So this slick afro american is bull****

Its just Slick fighter, no race

 

well if everybody fought in one way then I guess everybody is one dimensional. What sets fighters like Mayweather, Sugar Ray Leonard, Hagler, Duran, Pernell Witaker and others is their versatility.

 

Be prepared to be called an Uncle Tom by some of the resident black panthers.

 

the clown had a man brushing his hair when he was in the ring

please someone ko this clown ass hoe