Juan Diaz's Defense...

He is good defensively, yet people mistake an active offense for a bad defense. If PBF fought as aggressively as Diaz I can guarantee you would see him being hit more also. He keeps his guard very tight, utilises good head and upper body movement in close quarters and certainly doesn't just try to walk in through their punches. Probably the only thing he does do is punch a little bit widely at times, which can leave him exposed. He was doing this against Freitas at times.

 

yo you really need to get off my dick. I have been watching boxing way before floyd. All you do is watch mexicans, that's all you can appreciate.

 

A natural Lightweight CAN'T move down in weight. he made 11 title defenses of the WBO superfeatherweight title.

Katsidis can not make the 130 pound limit at all, do you know why? b/c he is a real lightweight.

Lennox lewis is a natrual heavyweight, he would not be able to move to light heavyweight.:deal

I would take Katsidis over Juan based on styles.

 

He hasn't got an amazing defence nor is he THAT defensive minded. He keeps his hands high and can mix it up between parry, moving, blocking, slipping etc

His defence is good.

 

I left a post right after the fight saying his defense is what impressed me most.

When you get hit only 20% of 800+ punches, your doing something right. And Julio Diaz is normally a fairly accurate puncher.

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I think they automatically think, because of his swarming, high output style, that his defense is lacking....which, history tells ya, it SHOULD!!! But that was what impressed me most Sat. was his movement and shell defense are actually excellent. If he was more of a counterpuncher and not a swarmer, it would be more evident.

 

His defense isn't great but it's more than sufficient for a fighter that's at leat 90% offense.

I'd say it is no more underrated than his jab is.

 

Yeah he's good. He doesn't get hit a lot, may seem like it on the inside, but everybody takes shots in close. Juan moves his head and comes forward and after a while his opponents don't have the power they had to start with and eventually they stop throwing altogether...

 

Sure they can, they're just weight drained every fight. If you can fight while you're weight drained, then great, but there are a lot of boxers, even good ones, who fight below their natural fighting weight, because they take enemas or sweat off 15 lbs on the day of the weigh-in. If your ring weight is more than 10 pounds heavier than your weigh-in weight, then you're not naturally at that weight. Unfortunately, only one of the sanctioning bodies actually enforces that as a rule, which leads to having guys like Josh Clottey gain 25 lbs on the day of the fight.

 

you know Clottey was weighed with clothes on for the corrales fight. he talks about in an interview after that fight on BTalk. i understand what your saying to an extent.

for instance miguel cotto would never have been able to fight at 135. and he started his career at 140.

 

His biggest problem is getting hit AFTER he finishes throwing punches. His defense is fine otherwise. He's not PBF, but he's not Gatti either.

 

He does leave himself open when he opens up, and starts throwing multi-punch combinations, but, on the whole, Diaz does quite a good job of avoiding punches while moving into range, and has proved himself to be increasingly effective at counter-punching.

His "D" will never be airtight, but it's not really a liability, esepcially when compared to other aggressive fighters.

 

He got peppered against Julio. However, he showed he has a chin.