Styles make fights - why do so few people still fail to understand this concept?

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  1. HEADBANGER

    HEADBANGER TEAM ELITE GENERAL Full Member

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    It amazes me that people still fail to grasp this basic and most intriguing facet of the fight game. eg foreman destroys Norton, Norton beats ali, ali beats foreman.

    Just because fighter A beats fighter B, it doesn't mean that fighter A beats fighter C.

    Give some types of round robin 3 man fight circles where styles make fights and produced differing results?
     
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  2. DBLOCK

    DBLOCK Well-Known Member Full Member

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    well,roger mayweather would say what it is.
     
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  3. kmac

    kmac On permanent vacation Full Member

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    you need to explain this to calzaghe fans. everytime hopkins beats someone, they get boners because they think that means joe is automatically better because he had a shitty split decision vs a 43 year old fighter. it's comical.
     
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  4. HEADBANGER

    HEADBANGER TEAM ELITE GENERAL Full Member

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    You seem to have a real obsession about calzaghe kmac :think:yep:deal
     
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  5. ACS

    ACS Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No one knows this, people think Karass wouldnt have a chance against Khan because Maidana beat Karass and lost to Khan

    Too many people use boxers wins and losses to tell if they can beat a certain someone, dont think their brains can handle analysing it style wise
     
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  6. chitownfightfan

    chitownfightfan Loyal Member Full Member

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    Well, Ward clowned Froch.....Froch starched Bute, but Ward hides in his doomsday bunker every time a fight with Bute is considered.:lol::lol::lol:
     
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  7. dodong

    dodong >>PACQUIAO Full Member

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    pavlik beat taylor who beat hopkins who beat pavlik.
     
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  8. Barrera

    Barrera Defeated Boxing_master Full Member

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    Pac beat barrera
    Barrera beat morales
    Morales beat pac
     
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  9. ACS

    ACS Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Maidana beat Ortiz
    Ortiz beat BERTO
    Maidana beat Karass
    Karass beat BERTO

    Ooops :nut
     
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  10. cr1571

    cr1571 New Member Full Member

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    " Styles make fights - why do so few people still fail to understand this concept? "
    So your problem is that there are still a few people that fail to understand this concept?
    So the vast majority does understand, why arguing about the remaining few who fail??
    :)))
     
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  11. Ahurath

    Ahurath Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's always been that way.
     
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  12. Taylor2010

    Taylor2010 Arranging chromosome injections for injured boxers Full Member

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    This is the first example I think of
     
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  13. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    Pure ****. This styles makes fights garbage is spouted by arrogant fools who think they have some sort of intellectual insight of the game.

    A perfect example is Mayweather who ADAPTS to every one of his opponents styles. Some fighters are simply superior to their opponents, and that is nothing to do with styles. Anything can happen at any given time in a fight. Take the Curry / McCallum fight. Donald was in his comfort zone handing out something of a lesson to Mike then BANG, goodnight nurse. Same thing with Graham / Jackson, Jones / Laing, the same Laing who beat a prime Duran, but a Duran that couldn't be bothered to train properly for the fight.

    Great fighters simply adapt to what is in front of them, that is what makes them great.
     
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  14. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Laing beat a prime Duran:lol::lol::lol::patsch:rofl:bart?
     
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  15. HEADBANGER

    HEADBANGER TEAM ELITE GENERAL Full Member

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    There is some truth in what you say but to pretend that styles don't make fights and produce a degree of unpredictability in a fight is ridiculous.
     
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