If you are the massive underdog in a Championship fight...

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  1. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Damn right!:good
     
  2. ripcity

    ripcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    How dose going with your stringhts give you no chance of wining? I would think going with your stringhts would be your best and only chance to win. If your a heavey underdog than it is very likly that you are one deminsional and your stringhts would be more efective than your weekness.
     
  3. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Styles - assuming your usual style would lead you to a certain loss, but a different style, which you are not as confortable with, would give you an edge, relatively.
     
  4. ripcity

    ripcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If I were training a boxer to fight a heavey favrote I would advise him to go with his stringhts and hope for the best.
    I have thought about what I would do if I found my self in a fight with some one who I knew was better than me. I think I would be more agresive because it is easyer for me to prosess informition if I'm on the atack than it is when I'm defending myself. I also beleve it takes less enengery to move forward than it dose to move backwards.
     
  5. ripcity

    ripcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    So my style dose not match? I have trubble acapting that it would mean certan defete but for the sake of the arugument if going with my stringhts would mean certan defete I would go fore broke. My ultmite goal is to win and if my stringhts gave me no chance to win they would become weeknesses.
     
  6. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    But in this case, doing what you usually do, but more aggressively, wouldn't work. So to have a small chance of winning, you would have to do something different. In any case...you could still be very aggressive and come forward doing something else too, right?
     
  7. China_hand_Joe

    China_hand_Joe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I cannot understand the concept of being an underdog mate.
     
  8. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Like JC would be if he was fighting a prime Tyson.;)
     
  9. China_hand_Joe

    China_hand_Joe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Calzaghe is the favorite in that one until he is 40.
     
  10. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    And after he is 40, does he start becoming "the underdog"?
     
  11. China_hand_Joe

    China_hand_Joe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why would someone with self respect enter the ring at that age?
     
  12. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    :rofl
     
  13. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    We're talking about JOE here, CHJ!:D
     
  14. nulty

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    Archie Moore had a bit of respect. And Big George solidified his place in history in his forties. Jack Johnson fought at 60. True fighters can do it in old age. Smart fighters do enough when they're young.
     
  15. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    Joe at age 40 would be overrated.