What Is Bernard Hopkins Boxing Style

There isn't a quick label to describe his style that's a general style. He incorporated about 4 or 5 different styles. Most of the smartest fighters don't have a style that lends itself to easy categorization (like Ward now).

 

He's simply a counterpuncher.

 

Defensive counter puncher

 

Part of the reason I'd call them both "boxers". Versatile fighters with no clear preferred emphasis on offense or defense across their career.

 

It's not that simple **** off noob :good

 

The most impressive thing I've ever seen someone do is Valuev outclinching Ruiz.

 

hit and hold

 

Bernard Hopkins=Boring

 

I cant stand watching Bernard Hopkins enough to give him a textbook style

 

:huh

He can sometimes spoil and fight ugly, but at his best, Hopkins boxing is like poetry.

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Swarmers and Pressure fighters generally want to fight at mid-range or on the inside but it doesn't necessarily make them "inside fighters". Watch Castillo vs Corales for true inside fighting then watch a swarmer like Calzaghe or pressure fighter like Matthysse to note the difference.

Slugger = Brawler? God no. A quality slugger is imo the style that requires the most skill. You're a pressure fighter who has more power than a swarmer so you don't need to rely as much on volume alone but are very good defensively and elusive while coming forward and working your way into range. Dempsey, Duran, Tyson, Lomachenko are skilled sluggers. A shitty unskilled slugger is someone like Kirkland but due to the lack of skill it would be more appropriate to label him a brawler and reserve the term slugger for skilled fighters.


This is the beauty of an elite slugger

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Agree on your distinction between swarmer and infighters. While many fighters are often both, there are a number of examples where a fighter overwhelms with volume yet stays at mid to long range.

Have to disagree on the slugger-brawler comparison though. For me a slugger doesn't have to have great offensive head movement, they're focusing on setting up that one or couple of punches to hurt their man. Maidana comes to mind. A Brawler to me is someone more like Mayorga, who has power, but not one-punch-KO power; he has to get by on violent aggression, brute strength, and awkward mechanics.

 

Well they can both be sluggers, i agree with Maidana, but what seperates a skilled slugger from a unskilled or mediocre slugger is their defense and elusiveness while pressuring. The best sluggers being truely elite like Duran or Lomachenko.