Perfect Style

The best style depends on you and your attributes.

 

A boxerAbrawler like Marco Antonio Barrera.

 

There is no perfect style. Each style works for someone.

 

one were you can hit them and not be hit yourself

 

I'm 5"10 with a long build and long arms, I would be a fool to go slugging in.

 

Of course lots of swarmers have 'done well', or they wouldn't exist. :huh

Tyson is not, nor never was, a swarmer :nono - he was a boxer/puncher who happened to be under average height for a heavyweight; a stocky build does not a swarmer make. A swarmer is in part characterized by the old cliche 'take one to give one' - a defensive wizard like young Mike definitely doesn't fit this bill.

The archetypal swarmer is, of course, Joe Frazier. To even be competitive with Ali (a pure boxer and supposedly the perfect foil for the swarmers skills) he took a horrible amount of punishment.

A great contemporary example would be Ricky Hatton - look at the damage he accumulates in even winning efforts, that is not the face you would expect from a guy who's lost one fight.

So, yes, lots of swarmers do well and are even greats, but its the LAST style I would want to have as a fighter- simply becasue it entails taking the most punishment.