Is the peek a boo style the best out of any fight style to use?

Limited style for short guys for their division and limited talent.

See Arthur Abraham, Felix Sturm.

 

It does seem best suited to a small boxer-swarmer with speed and power who has to get inside the jab and guard against uppercuts. The thing is, a style needs to be adapted for the boxer in question. If Cus D’Amato was training Tommy Hearns, he would not have trained him like he trained Mike Tyson.

 

It's a good style to use. It's also very energy consuming style. Always crouching, constantly bobbing and weaving. It drains your own stamina fast.

 

I suppose any style is the "best" if it's done well enough and used in the right context. I mean, there are times when Wilder's style looks pretty unstoppable! When Tyson was in his prime, his style did seem pretty perfect, but it requires a fighter to be at the top of their game.

 

Yeah it's a style where you have to be in tip, top condition to perform correctly as it requires a lot of energy to stay in the low crouch. Not many boxers would have the condition to pull it off correctly and not drain quickly.

Tyson is the perfect example, when he lived the spartan lifestyle of a boxer that style worked for him perfectly in his prime he was a tremendously dedicated fighter who was in fantastic condition but as soon as he was 100% committed and focused on training you saw a big dip in form and he became a 3-4 round fighter and once his stamina was depleted he became far less effective.

One issue with the style other than the requirement of great conditioning is that you're basically squared up the whole time. Against a fighter who clinches and mauls you'll get pushed back, that's why Holyfield fought like he did vs Tyson, even though he was the lighter man with the higher center of gravity he was easily able to push Tyson back throughout the fight.

 

It requires talents to really be effectice, and for sure has draw backs.

There's quite a few advantages to a lower lead for feinting, jabbing and hitting the body.

It really comes down to what your talents are, ideally you'd master a few, so you can change it up for your opponent's weaknesses.

Like others said, you want to be shorter than your opponents to use it too, as it's akward to punch down, and leaves your body fairly exposed.

 

No one knows how to teach it anymore ,and someone above mentioned Abraham and Strum , they are stand up European fighters with high guards. This isn't it.

Think Floyd Patterson.

 

The Slick European Style

The Slick European Style is the greatest style IMO, but don't take my word for it, just look at the amazing results.
It's a very hard style to counter and it seems only fighter's who have seen the style in Europe know how to beat fighter's using it when not adopting it themselves

 

I agree. Abraham just works behind a high guard. A better example would be Giacobbe fragomeni or maybe even Adrian Diaconu. Both of those guys were clearly influenced by Tyson/Patterson style of fighting. Qawi comes to mind as well although he had a lot more to his game.

 

It’s a good style for a few years but then it takes its toll on the fighter.

Patterson already had back problems by the time he fought Ali.

 

Boxing is actually an art at its core so no style is really the best. Some people are just better at using particularly styles but that says more about them than the style. Each way of boxing has a LONG list of pros and cons, nuances, and small differences that INDIVIDUALS do to the alter them to make them more (or less) effective.

1. You can't be as effective if you are a tall fighter/have a long reach (relative to your opponent)
2. It requires power
3. You burn a lot of energy
4. It is easy to get caught
5. If you get caught you will likely take more damage than you normally would. This comes from the rhythm and timing

 

Mike Tyson was a great fighter. A legend of the sport.
The style wasn't around very much then, so hard to gauge but I think the European style would have caused him problems as Lewis used a similar style