Naoya Inoue vs MJ in September

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Shakur is extremely irritating, I hope Zepeda will shut up that rat face...

 

It's incredibly hard to be well-rounded though. Only the elite of the elite are capable of really mastering more than one style. Once you start sparring, you soon realise that you do your best work fighting in a certain style, you might find that you love working on the inside and denying your opponent space, maybe you love the floating feeling of dancing on the back-foot and making a guy work to your pace with your jab and feints, or maybe you love capitalising on your opponent's errors and forcing them to make mistakes. A lot of guys just aren't build to fight going backwards, maybe they don't have the length or they quickness, or even the right mentality to work that way. Whenever I spar and try going backwards and pumping my jab, I always get countered since I've got short arms and am pretty small for my weight. And conversely, a lot of guys just aren't built to fight going forwards. So you figure out your style and you perfect it, you find your holes and figure out ways to hide them or pick up tricks to negate your opponent from exploiting them. If you're a pretty boxer who hates the inside then maybe you develop a strong long guard and use physical controls to keep your opponent off of you, or things to that effect. You can develop your style and add different tricks but pretty much everyone is better in one direction compared to the other, Usyk is predominantly a front-foot pressure fighter, Inoue is an aggressive counter-puncher, as is Canelo, and Shakur is a back-foot boxer. They all have a predominant style but still do their best to round out their game as much as they can.

 

Marlon Tápales will be helping Naoya Inoue prepare for his upcoming fight. MJ is in trouble.

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