Just watched this, a decent little docco for anyone interested [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxnBoDqn-qk[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7kLJFTYf8&feature=related[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewXtvV2nTM&feature=related[/ame]
Yes, I tend to like looking at the older style of boxing. I was thinking to myself watching these tapes, and reviewing Buchanan's great record, that the left jab for boxers continually was the biggest tool for destroying all potential 'destroyers', yet for the current batch of fighters it rarely gets used past the second minute of the first round. Will the left jab ever dominate again ?
How many times do you see Aussie fighters double and triple the jab? I wonder if most of them are even taught it?
The Spider: "How many times do you see Aussie fighters double and triple the jab?" ............................................................................................................... mmm....well, if I saw it from one Aussie fighter, even once; I would cry "farka-me-drunk", "alleluia, the messiah has arrived !!", and I would be at every, every one of his contests. With this motivation, I might even invest in my own boxing gym, with an inner manifest to try and coach or reskill some bloke towards beating him. You know, I looked at boxing for many years in the same context of playing chess (a game I love to play with the greatness of seriousity)..In the present environment, and if boxing was chess, we would see contestants come in and smash their fists down on the table, trying to demolishes all of the structure and sweetness of engagement, and teasing out the knowledge and skill of boxing; this current "chess game" takes usually a couple of minutes and bares no farking resemblance to the skill and knowledge of chess, boxing; mostly this current sport as a categorization fits with incompetent thugery.