The different styles of boxing

Gloveking

 

You broke it down, but basically when you reduce all that you wrote you end up with; Boxer, Puncher, Boxer/puncher. They all reduce down to these three because that's what they are. A swarmer is a puncher, or like Aaron Pryor, he's a boxer/puncher.

 

Lmao runner. You mean mover? Last time I checked you can't turn your back to an opponent and the ring is a confined space. Choosing to control distance as a tactic for winning a fight within the confines of the rules is not running.

 

The fight night categories are to my liking.

Outside Fighter
Inside Fighter
Boxer
Boxer-Puncher
Counter-Puncher
Swarmer
Slugger
Brawler

There's always overlap and hybrid styles and whatnot, depending on how specific you want to get when describing an individual.

 

Let me qualify those categories with some of the clearest modern examples:

Outside Fighter: Ali
Inside Fighter: Chavez
Boxer: Hopkins
Boxer-Puncher: Trinidad
Counter-Puncher: Mayweather
Swarmer: Williams
Slugger: Maidana
Bawler: Mayorga

 

Looks good. On Trinidad, I may be in the minority, but I thought he peaked early in his reign. Against Oba Carr, that was a terrific display of a boxer-puncher. He outboxed Carr and he had that power. He didn't load up as much on shots as he did later on, and he seemed better on his feet. He picked his punches extremely well. There's a noticeable contrast in this fight as opposed to when he fought William Joppy, where he was seemingly trying to stop Joppy with every shot. Like many big punchers, I think he fell in love with his power.

Naturally, some can fall into more than one category. James Toney is one of the most brilliant counterpunchers I have ever seen and he is so good fighting on the inside.

 

What's a boxer-runner? I've never heard that term before. Please enlighten me.

 

I think boxer-mover is the term he was looking for but I think this is just a disguised mayweather/ward hate thread

 

Aron Pryor was an iron chinned swarmer with great lateral movement.

 

I never truly believed in the styles make fights matter. Most of the times it's more about the level they on. It's about the best style that works for you. In general, flat footed pressure fighters are thought to not be quick handed, yet Juan Diaz had some quick hands. Then another oddity in Malignaggi, pure boxer, but never took a step back! Liked to come forward, little head movement. Then you have Pacman, a southpaw pressure fighter who moved like a boxer puncher and could counterpunch too.

Also, many consider counterpuncher a style too. But then you have to sub categorize, like you have defensive counter punchers like Floyd, Hopkins, and Rigo, then technical counterpunchers like Marquez, but Hopkins and GGG could fall into this category as well. Sanchez a phenomenal counterpuncher, tho aside from great at parrying punches he could display great defense when he wanted to.

 

Good point. Floyd Toney and Hopkins all great counter punchers but in very very different ways

 

I stopped reading when you mentioned boxer-punchers and didn't mention Lennox Lewis, possibly the king of boxer-punchers. Epic fail.

 

Boxer/puncher is my favorite style.

 

I think hagler might be the most misunderstood fighter ever. He got into wars because he felt that's what he needed to do to get noticed as a pro, and he wasn't wrong. He's much more great boxer than he is brawler

 

True. GGG's dissection of Lemieux with that unforgiving, nasty jab reminded me so much of Hagler's. It's a treat to see a jab that powerful humble fighters, not something seen very often.