Geographically Inherent Stylists

Does that title make sense? I don't know, I'm zonked at the moment.

Anyway, what are your favourite examples of, or any examples, of styles or traits predominantly associated with one nation's boxers.

Panama have the smooth, relaxed boxer types. Alfonso Lopez, Ismael Laguna, Ernesto Marcel, Eusebio Pedroza, Hilario Zapata all share a similar look in their slips and counters. Someone with more technical nous might be able to articulate it better than I, I hope so.

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Argentina would be mainly associated with short, bullish weavers. Locche, Perez, Laciar, even Roldan nicked some of that swag. If you like Monzon, you might like Victor Echegaray.

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There was a time when South Korea produced a load of feint-heavy multi-faceted offensive Duran-esque machines. Okay, only a few that good but when I think Korean boxing I don't think that (admittedly fun) slugger Kim whatever that's on Friday Night Fights nowadays.

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If there's already a thread exactly the same hook me and up and delete this sorry mess.

 

Right, for Mexico, I see two types really.

The more boxing orientated tidy offensive types. Chava, Davila, Lopez, JMM (the last two obviously looking nigh on identical stylistically but as lora pointed out that aside there's no specific style here, more just an easy way of bracketing them)

And then your well schooled primarily offensive types. Chavez, Zarate, Raton, Olivares.

I'll leave Margarito out. Every country has their marauders.

Some solid posts all round on that front gents. Seamus especially, interesting hypothesis.

With the Thai's you get the Ali-wannabe's as well as the straight on solid offensive types.

 

Good point. I'm kinda' hoping lora will wax lyrical about the similarities you see, especially the way they slip punches in close and throw that almost underarm of an uppercut they like to counter with.

Again, I'm not eloquent enough to put the more technical things down. lora will know what I mean I'm sure.

It's like they're the apex of what Dominican imposter Eleoncio Mercedes was trying to do.

 

I think they can be divided like that too, and yes there is overlap but not enough that there's an aesthetically carbon copy style floating around.

Again, Nacho's lads share very similar traits, but that's more a gym thing. I wouldn't say Wincobank fighters are indicative of British fighters. We're known for your gung-ho aggressors like a Ted Lewis or Ricky Hatton, but I think we've had a fair few pure boxers of talent, Winstone, Conteh, Buchanan, Driscoll, Welsh, but they don't look all that similar.

EDIT: Further to Salsanchezfan's post, Panama is bloody small. I'm still pretty sure it's bigger than Sheffield

 

Nice work :good

Nana as well

In fact there's no need to limit this to country. Cities or districts of countries, or a lot of fighters from the same gym lookingvery similar are fair game.