How do you define "textbook" boxing?

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  1. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What's your definition of the word "textbook" boxing? Usually whenever I hear that term I always think of a fighter who always keeps a high guard and then following the basics of boxing. I have a hard time defining that term.

    All I know is that fighters such as Ricardo Lopez, Juan Manuel Marquez, Alexis Arguello, Joe Louis, Donald Curry, and Harold Johnson are perfect example of textbook boxers.
     
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  2. jas

    jas ★ Legends: B-HOP ; PAC ★ Full Member

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    Good question. Bernard Hopkins? Chin tucked in at all times.
     
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  3. Delroc

    Delroc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    fighting off the jab defines it IMO.
     
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  4. dinnynosher

    dinnynosher Active Member Full Member

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    De La Hoya...
     
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  5. D Berns

    D Berns Well-Known Member Full Member

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    wladimir
     
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  6. rushman

    rushman Devoid is Devoid Full Member

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    High guard, chin tucked in. Straight punches, thrown with correct movement (through feet, hips, shoulders, elbow etc). Uses jab.

    Imagine the fundamentals that you get taught when you first start at a gym. A boxer who still shows all of that when they are fighting is a textbook fighter.
     
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  7. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Joe Louis and Wladimir Klitschko

    Not to say they fight in the same manner, but I'd have to say those two. A great jab necessary.
     
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  8. 1punch1nder

    1punch1nder **Bam Bam** Full Member

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    jab, jab, jab, move, dance, jab, jab, move, setup a strike, strike, jab, jab, jab, move, dance, jab....
     
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  9. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wladimir fights like a big tall man, but he can barely throw an uppercut. The closest fighter to resemble him in history is Primo Carnera.
     
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  10. dee-z-r

    dee-z-r Active Member Full Member

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygfqXj9pvGA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygfqXj9pvGA[/ame]
     
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  11. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wlad fights like Primo Carnera. They have as identical a style that you can get.

    Joe Louis can throw uppercuts.
     
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  12. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Actually, that's what you call a predictable fighter.
     
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  13. rushman

    rushman Devoid is Devoid Full Member

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    Some move everytime, right?
     
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  14. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Manny Pac is hardly what you would consider textbook.

    You're talkin about a European textbook fighter. But what's funny to me about that is Calzaghe was one of the best European fighters, and he wasn't even a European textbook fighter.

    The style you're talkin about are for guys that don't have the natural athleticism and rhythmm to step their game up. They can make it pretty far, but they'll never be remembered as elite.
     
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  15. rushman

    rushman Devoid is Devoid Full Member

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    I wasn't going into whether being a textbook fighter is good or bad, or how far it can take you. I wasn't going into what attributes people need to be a successful textbook fighter, or to surpass it.

    I was just talking about my definition of what a textbook fighter is and does.
     
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