Boxing is sort of like jazz.(Foreman)

The first time I hear it , I laughed a lot.
For me, it means that more people prefers brawl than technical fight.

The other analogy between jazz and boxing is that we have inside and outside playing.

Inside playing is when you play and improvise in the same scale of the melody theme
Armstrong, Stan Getz ( the girl of Ipanema) are exemple of great inside player.

In outside playing, you can play using other scales, beginning at one half or one tone around the melody. (be-bop, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Coltrane, ...)

Generally, people have no problem listening to Armstrong and Getz but have some with the less melodic playing.
But for many jazz addicts, the fun begins...

As a jazz and boxing addict, I like both them.( inside and outside in jazz and boxing.)

 

Well, okey:huh

 

Nno Hopkins deserves the mention. He's one if the very few boxers today that train to jazz music. Infect I wouldn't be gobsmacked if he's the only one

 

Joe Calzaghe is the stereotypical jazzy boxer, in fact that should have been his nickname. 100% improvisational fighting without too much 'rehearsal' (little raw at the beginning but gets the rhythm going), completely unique and smooth once adapted, you just feel his performances are being created on the fly. Funny that he's fighting style is kinda like his daddy's musical 'career', maybe there's a connection.

 

Most hardcore fans appreciate the sweet science. But a boring fighter, is a boring fighter . I can appreciate guys like Hopkins and Floyd , but that doesn't change the fact that they put me to sleep sometimes.

 

I've always thought that the greatest boxers were akin to the greatest musicians. They are artists, with distinctive skill sets and signature moves, improvising off the other player. The very best performers are a force of nature; they're virtuosos.

The greatest fights, like the greatest musical performances are inspired displays of creative beauty.

 

Well put

 

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They were both once dominated by black guys too.

 

no not B-Hop, he is the anti-jazz.

 

that quote is perfect, it takes more will and observance than most will ever have to really appreciate good boxing.

 

That's a great quote from Big George.

 

Foreman clearly knows less about jazz than he does about boxing. This **** doesn't make any sense at all.

 

actually, it does. The average person listening to "A love supreme" would want to pull the plug on the stereo. But it's listed as one of the best jazz albums of all time.

So, Foreman's quote actually does hold some water.