Innovations in boxing styles - Who were the innovators

Ceferino Garcia is said to be the inventor of the bolo punch. Gavilan and Leonard made it popular.

 

You got me on the Sullivan crouch , been reading about Boxing for a very long time, but hadn't read that, kudos is yours. keep well.

 

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The low guard was very beneficial in the bare knuckle days. I think that may have spilled over some into the small glove days as well.

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I imagine we just don't know for many of these inventions. Shoulder-rolling is often spoken of in a modern context, but there is film of Joe Gans doing it in 1908. Dempsey used it in spots against Carpentier in 1921. I also saw Bill Brennan use the cross-arm defense a few times against Dempsey, though that wasn't a dedicated style:

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This probably wasn't the first instance, but I remember Pacquiao double-punched Clottey, which was humorous and something I can't recall seeing elsewhere:

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