Technical Flaws in Current Fighters

Following on from Slip's great thread on Deficiencies, which mainly centred around ex-fighters or fighters at the tail end of their career and the deficiencies which prevented them from becoming the complete fighter, and stopped them going further in the game than they possibly could have.

This thread is concentrating on today's fighters, those just outside of the elite who have ambitions to one day become part of the elite e.g Berto, Alexander, Dawson, Pascal, Cloud, Bradley, Khan, Juanma, Gamboa etc you get the picture. Can't really call them 'prospects' but fighters on the cusp of something big.

What TECHNICAL flaws have you picked up on watching these fighters as they develop, that you feel could prevent them from progressing to this elite level they strive to be part of. I don't wanna hear any "Khan's got a china chin" bollocks. Technical flaws in their technique, style of fighting, video examples would be nice :good

Let's leave the Haye-Audley and other bull**** threads to the trolls and casuals and have a good discussion focusing on technical issues and flaws.

I'll start off with Andre Berto :bbb

Speed, power and heart and athletic ability have gotten Berto this far, but there's only so far this can take him if he wants to start rumbling with the big boys at 147/154. He's a brutal knockout waiting to happen IMO, primarily because of a particularly bad habit he has of trying to hold too much and at inappropriate times. For a short fighter he has no inside game, he really needs to learn how and when to clinch and fight his way on the inside, because he openly grabs from distance on occasion and gets completely square on and he will be chicken feed to anyone with a decent uppercut who can get his hands free on the inside.

Examples of this in the Collazo fight from about the 2:40 mark, early in the fight as well which is another bad sign.

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Good point :good probably the reason why he suffered a few flash knockdowns earlier on in his career, but has managed to correct this somewhat recently. Still an explosive fighter going off the Mtagwa fight and probably has the speed to get away with anything he wants, maybe the level of competition has increased and therefore he doesn't look as explosive because they don't drop like a sack of **** :think

Agreed Beeston, Williams has stopped using his biggest asset which is his freakish height and reach.

Spot on Mandanda, exactly what i'm looking for :good

And in complete agreement, has that devastating check hook in his locker but won't have much joy landing it against a slick mover who shows him angles. Still think he wins in a shoot-out against Rafa though personally, younger fresher and Rafa has poor punch resistance.

 

Agree mate, was going to be my next post :good

I think the grunt/heavy breathing/noise (whatever the hell it is) Devon makes BEFORE he throws (i've watched videos of him and i'm certain he does it before he throws) will make it easy for anyone with a decent boxing brain to pick his shots and defend easily, just like Kotelnik did.

 

Yeah, great point. Although to an extent both Hatton and Khan make the same noises when they let their hands go. The reason i picked up on Devon in particular is because he does it before he throws, while the others maybe do it as they throw, and that split second difference could be key. Devon has gotten away with it so far against poor competition, and Urango didn't have the nous to capitalise. But Kotelnik was a different ball game and quite easily stifled everything Devon tried to throw.

Great post above on the teachers by the way IB, i think some of it has to do with the modern emphasis being more on conditioning to some trainers, obsessing over their fighters hitting a big tyre with a sledgehammer and such, which is great for conditioning but needs to be secondary to getting in the ring and learning how to fight properly.

 

I suppose so, feel free to use genuine prospects as examples too though mate e.g the olympians, domestic level fighters. might as well open the boundaries, some very good points made so far