Are there any skills that have been forgotten in boxing?

Has it ever been fair???

 

Humility and class....

 

Boxers now have less strength in their legs because they indulge in sex too close to fighting.

 

No more horseshoes in gloves ( that,s a good thing !!)

 

Not a boxing skill or move as such but just wanted to ask when did it change for boxers in between rounds to gulp down mouthfuls of water? I’m sure that it used to be that boxers were told to take some water and just use it to rinse out their mouths and then spit it out into the spit bucket because apparently if they drank the water, it would cause them to throw up if they were then punched to the stomach once the fighting resumed. When did this all change because nowadays you see every boxer drinking water In between rounds?

 

American boxing has seen a decline in actual punching. So many American fighters are taught to quickly pull back their punch so that they don't get countered. Caleb Plant is a good example. Eastern European fighters like Kovalev and Beterbiev are taught to punch through their opponent. And then the Americans wonder why they can't crack an egg.

 

Shifting

Eastern europeans were good at it havent seen that since GGG

 

This.

 

See Ukrainian boxing

 

You didn’t watch ESPN tonight I take it.

 

I concur.

 

Beterbiev. Madrimov is good at it too but not as good

 

I wonder what caused the change in inside fighting ability. It seems like something that is not allowed by modern referees in the pros and amateurs.
I remember referees pulling fighters hands down or away when in the clinch so that they wouldn´t just hold, but instead fight. These days a clinch is an immediate break to the action by the referee.