Does the Counter-Punching Style Require Greater Ring IQ and Skills to Use?

Just come out and say that you're black for ****'s sake.

atsch

 

I think it is more mentally demanding.

 

As far as counter-punching, it's not a matter of being smart. It's having the reflexes, coordination, and automatic physiological responses honed through years of practice and fighting to react to what your opponent throws at you. Everything has to be automatic. There's no time to think, "this guy threw out a jab, so I'm gonna slip to my right and fire a right hand." Coming up with a gameplan during the preparation for a fight is where the intelligence comes in.

The same goes for being a great (defensive) pressure fighter, of which there aren't any around in the current scene. Executing any style at a world-class P4P level is demanding. You can't necessarily say one style is more demanding and mentally taxing than another. Too many variables are involved.

 

Klitschko bros are smart too. oh and my boy Khan

 

Marquez and Ward are pretty smart, but tbh Hopkins and Mayweather don't really seem so if you ask in a general sense.

 

shut the **** up

 

Good post. A huge part of the counter punching style is the "ring IQ" that comes with experience; almost seeing the punch and counter before it happens. All of the best have either long amatuer backgrounds or a ton of professional experience, sometimes both.

Intelligence can be specific to a field and not present elsewhere. I wouldn't want to see Uncle Roger's SAT scores, but the man truly knows boxing.

 

Y u mad? Slick be promotin' black power with every thread. He a Panther.

:rofl

 

boxing is like speed chess. u don't have to be smart to play...but it helps if u want to win.

 

No, I just think it's a different style, they all take ring IQ and skills.

For instance, Chavez was great at applying pressure, and it takes ring intelligence to know how to cut off the ring, when and where to throw your punches, having a sense of
how the opponent will react.

Similar thing on being a counter punching. It takes ring IQ to know (or have a good sense of) when your opponent will throw, what he will throw, which punches are best to counter. Setting traps so your opponent will throw a certain shot, and then countering on that opening.

 

In the case of someone like Hopkins, a better word would be 'crafty'. He does all sorts of things to bend the rules or break them, but usually disguises it fairly well. His fight with Calzaghe is a showcase of dirty/sneaky fighting in boxing -- combining the headbutt with the right hand, using his head to push at Calzaghe's head in the clinch, hitting him with low punches on the blind side of the referee, regularly clinching and spoiling Calzaghe's work, etc. I also remember how he made a massive deal out of supposedly getting hit low when Calzaghe seemed to be taking over in the fight. Hopkins took a long time resting, getting some of his stamina back rather than being too proud or embarrassed and jumping back into action. When the action eventually resumed he definitely looked fresher, and he had also served to break Calzaghe's momentum.

 

Need good reflexes coordination and accuracy

 

Timing = Counter punching

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Timing, reflexes, anticipation = Counter punching

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