Are these fighters that I should be studying for technique?

you should study any fighter at the end of the day theyve got further in the sport than you have i assume , you just have to think things through and see why it worked for them and why it wouldnt work for you ( eg am and pro two different games)

personally i like watching marquez clips, great fighter who has all the basics pretty much perfect

 

my favorite fighters for technique are Ray Leonard (footwork and movement), Bernard Hopkins (for perfect punching technique), Amir Khan (European style footwork), Tim Bradley (offensive creativity), Mike Tyson (head movement and in-fighting)....

hmmm I guess my list goes on forever.

I haven't studied Curry, Marquez and Lopez are excellent to study. Joe Louis' is a little out-dated, the sport has become more scientific since his day.

but honestly, study as many different boxers as you can. learn something from everywhere.

 

Study a fighter whose style suits your best assets

 

why limit yourself? study the sport as a whole

 

Study who you want, but don't copy a style that doesn't suit you.

 

Linking onto this, study..But don't copy.
You can't say to yourself "I'm going to have SRL's handspeed," when you don't have his hand speed, you can't work with assets you don't have..

Just watch lots of different fighters and keep training, you'll develop your own style.

 

agreed , i never said copy? you said study a fighter that suits your style, think we mean the same thing

 

Different fighters will teach you different things, study them all, and mix and match to best suit you.

 

I believe in learning from boxers whose attributes are similar to yours. This can include speed, height, reach, power etc.

You're not going to be able to use much from SLR's style without some serious speed, in the same way that Tyson's peekaboo won't work for someone taller or less powerful for their weight class.

Also, rather than trying to copy them completely, focus on learning WHY they are doing what they're doing and WHY it works. This will give you a better understanding of certain techniques and their variations, and allow you to more effectively add them to your style.

 

Have a look at Yuri Arbachakov if you can get a hold of his tapes. I thought that technically he was awesome!

 

To be honest dude, i watch margarito and john molina. big believer in looking at fighters similar to you. though theres some thing to learn feom everyone.

 

so you cheat?


j/k

 

Lamont Peterson is a good fighter to study. Solid all around and has very solid basics despite being athletically gifted.

 

That's a pretty good list of pretty solid guys, you can see how the tall dynamic guy works combinations off the jab (arguello), the solid combinations including uppercuts and angles of Marquez, but PLEASE, as other posters have said above me, don't try to emulate sugar ray leonard unless you are just twice as fast as they guys you are fighting. Like guys who want to fight like Pac, you have to be able to move in and out fluidly and fire quick and hard without being set.

You can learn from all those guys without directly imitating their style as a whole, because you need to find your own body mechanic. Me, I can't throw uppercuts at range like Marquez can no matter how I try, so trying his combinations would be stupid, but I can generate a whole lot of power in my left hook and straight right without having my feet set firmly, so I CAN move in and out trying to imitate Pac at times without getting killed.

Don't imitate Hamed and Jones unless you feel like wow, I feel at home like this! Hopkins is great because you get to see how his technique controls physically stronger/ more aggressive guys and how he conserves energy with range and DIRTY tricks (anyone catch his overhand right to the face/ head butt to the balls combination? He pulls it off with some frequency, even though it sounds ridiculous).

Barrera is great because you can see how he uses a basic jab to set up and defeat all kinds of opponents and you see how he moves at angles.

Good list, but try to take as much as you can from all of them without saying, hey, I'm going to fight like Marquez this fight, because it will be ultimately artificial.