The British boxers used to generally follow a similar style of operating mostly from a stand-up stance, straight left, right cross, boxing from a distance, but many try to copy American styles in the last two decades, which is okay if they are copying good American styles. Often not though.
I hope your book on Harry Greb is more objective than your post. Driscoll Buchanan Watt McGowan Lynch Calzaghe Eubanks Hamed Benn No kos by Americans on their records.
When i was a kid boxing was mainstream, when i was 5 years old one of my 1st teachers had us all with gloves on in the playground, today he'd be jailed, All my school teachers were ex-military so boxing was just always there if yer wanted to get involved & these guys obviously were old school in their styles in as "Hit & don't get hit" milling on the retreat!! but the style was mostly approached in what you today would call fisticly amatuer, to describe this as in Brits went to a boxing match & yanks went to a fight. I recken the new generation approach the game in the american way as it's a businnes after all & the TV marketing boys want to see crash/bang/wallop. I veiw Dirrel as a fantastic exponent of superier boxing but he'll not get much support or $$$$ earning oportunities in this day & age due to whats viewed as a negative style, times change & what we've got is what we've got, it's all about entertainment & folk now days want to see a fight, toe 2 toe aggression sells & it's all about the PPv numbers so if yer want yer snout in the trough you've got to thug it up IMO.
duran..Im fairly certain they have banned any kind of boxing in the Australian Defence Force..even on your own time. By that I mean organised fights and sparring...How is ***** is that for a military to ban boxing.
****ing hell :-( my trainer was a Para in the british army, they had to fight there best mate bare-knuckle for 5 minutes as one of the tests to get in (dont know if it was officail like) was a way of de humanising thme in a way
I don't think it's bare-knuckle, 16oz jobs & no head shots, or that could be the marines? but my mate was a para & yeh it's still something yer've got to do & do well or you're obviously ****ed off out, 5 min non-stop till yer spew. there's only one rule in there & thats win or near on die in the effort.
Is that state schools? i know that **** Tony Blair jumped on the bandwagon when Khan won the olympic silver medal & they all jumped on him for the photo shoot & promised this & that about letting boxing back on the cariculum, i thought it was all the usual spin shite + health & safty laws bollocks would kill it. It's always been around private fee paying schools, non-state funded.
That defies belief!!!! ****in incredible, i'll tell yer what, we've always had & still have the impression that the aussies are yer basic sort of no nonsence, **** off, crash bang wallop folk, everything thats projected about you lot is positive, can do, shark wrestling, croc ****ing, kangeroo fighting, ect & obviously the Aussie army would be the antipodion clone of the British army. What the **** is the point that there making?? you can't have P.C. soldiers, the army's all about producing licenced killers within the law on behalf of the defence of the state. I got into boxing in the army cadets & you were just picked & told do yer best & don't embarress the detatchment, no pressure there then.
It's purpose is to strip you down mentally & re-build you into what they want, everything from yer past is shredded as thats viewed as a handicap so yer brutalised into a new family & the NCO is yer new mum/dad, thats why the majority find it hard to assimulate back into civvy street, think/fend for themselves ect, it ai'nt easy.
akinwande really had a ability he just never put it all together but you are right about barry though i like his commentary. he was comparing amir khan to ray leonard when he was on itv