What's stopping "old school" coaches from taking over boxing?

Not every fighter is a created-equal lump of pú (nothing scatological; that is a Taoist concept meaning something like "unhewn stone" ...tabula rasa is a near approximate of what I mean, if you prefer Western languages)

To make this kind of research scientifically worthwhile you'd need a slate of proven naturally talented fighters (inexperienced amateurs with tourney success or high KO rates, for instance) to buy into the old-school coaches' teaching.

 

The most major problem with boxing now is simple every gym thinks their the ****…every single one of them. They all have a few tricks up their sleeve but no one communicates nor gives away to many tricks on line and there isn’t a set handbook for this **** lol.
Some coaches only teach one damn style (you see a lot of fighters unable to adapt to different situations more then in the past).
The competition for money is tough so I get it. They have to bad mouth the competition so you think there better.
Most “old time” fighters had the benefit of having dozens of gyms in there area. Everyone around them knew a little boxing and would teach them things. Today gyms are few and far between and if you’re stuck w a bad one in your area you won’t be seeing much talent come out of there. And the less people know about it the more skills go.
So to answer your question old time boxing is all around you already. The skill sets and tricks are spread out amongst gyms all around the world. Mayweather and Wlad learned their craft well and really that’s what it’s about just studying the game learn every trick in the book.

 

Old school was fighting every week for low purses in local clubs. Doesn't sound very lucrative to me

 

@cross_trainer

This might be a dumb question, since obviously you found its meat rich enough to make the subject of a thread - but as far as purchases go, compared with other books on the sport, do you recommend Arc?

 

Because these young punks ain’t tough enough.

 

But the platform doesn't really exist. It cannot easily be done with just isolated individuals. It requires a structural change.

And making Vernon Forrest look like an amateur doesn't equate to making more money than can be made in whatever ways Mayweather made his money, for example. And Mayweather is as good a model as can be for the modern era.
Making an MMA fighter or a YouTuber look like what they are will suffice.

 

Having said that, there are probably tons of fairly obvious examples of where a more "old school" approach paid real dividends in recent decades.
In the case of Mayweather and Toney etc. they certainly did credit their skills to early instruction from old school trainers and/or study of old school fighters.

 

There have always been maverick coaches, who do things very differently to the majority, and seem to get results with it.

The bottom line, is that the talent that the coach has to work with, will always be the most critical ingredient.

 

Most of those styles, techniques and such have been beaten out by the new stuff