British Boxing Training and whats wrong

in what way?

 

You need to explain and put a few names out there mate. I sometimes feel there's to much modern training going on and not enough technical work.

I think it's a fine balance and sometimes it seems were more worried about strength and ripped abs. Well some people are...

 

A lot of fighters aren't ''professional'' anymore.

They're almost semi-pro, they train to make weight and not to improve. Because they don't fight often enough and spend too long out of the gym they'll be a couple of weeks shaking a bit of rust off.

If you had a month off your job and then went back..... doesn't come back immediately does it?

Some trainers are **** but I think we've plenty of talented coaches here.

 

Bolo punches on pads, how much more modern can you get?

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I think this is spot on. The fighters just don't fight often enough. A pro should be fighting 4 times a year minimum IMHO. Even if one of them is just a keep-busy against an overmatched opponent.

 

I dont think the lack of success at world level is down to coaching methods

One of the obvious reasons is lack of top class sparring and not being prepared for the different styles at world class level....also being brought along against journeymen who come to survive rather than to win.

Lack of fights at the amateur level possibly doesnt help either - I seem to remember one american fighter training over here commenting on how few amateur fights a lot of british pro's had compared to pro's in america.

 

Didn't you work you work with Craig Watson in his last two fights against Lee Purdy,with his conditioning & nutrition ?????????????? Can you explain what & where it all went wrong please. many thanks !!!!!

 

Yes I agree with above posts that the uncertainty/ and infrequence of decent match ups for young pro's is definitely a problem.

It's abit of a myth that the US trainers are so much better (IMHO), at least nowerdays.

A **** load of quality amateurs are going to be turning pro in the next couple of years. Our gyms are going to be flooded with sparring talent :happy

Everyone's gonna get better :bbb

 

One of the biggest problems imo is inactivity. Boxers are having 4-5 fights a year in their first few years as a pro. personally I think they should have 10-12 in their first year and then about 6-8 in their second. get all the learning against journeymen etc out the way early and then focus on moving up the rankings in tougher fights.

I think this whole 0 thing doesn't help either. Everyone's trying to pick their opponents instead of getting in the tough fights that will set them up for the bigger fights down the way (if they make it). If you've never had any troubles of crisis' to get over then sussing it out at world level isn't the best time to start.

More sparring and a wider range o sparring would be good too, i know a ,ot of lads just spar the same groups over and over again when they should be moving around the country and using sparring time as a learning curve also.

 

not enough amateur fights. top ameriocans are having hundreds of amateur fights from a young age. eg donald curry had 400 odd and some of ours go pro after 20-30.

not enough exposure to other styles.

poor coaching causes an awful lot of these problems too.

 

Today's amateur game breeds a lot of flaws. Having a **** load of contests isn't necessarily a good thing.

 

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing...
Sugar Ray Leonard