When's the last time you were in a boxing gym (if ever)?

My dad teaches specific things for a persons specific body shape and disposition. Usually though, this will come quite a time after being forced to work on basic fundamental skills over and over again. I think this is inspired by the fact my dad's on coaches back in the day had lots of experience (106 bouts!) but they were pretty... Neglectful? As a result, he had to learn alot of stuff the hard way. He didn't want that for his boxers. He has been asked several times to train boxers as a pro coach, but he always turned it down for his own reasons.

For example, my dad can teach how to shift and in fight (as he was an in fighter) but only after a guy is experienced. He also wouldn't favour it for a tall, lanky guy. Why I respect my dad's coaching is that he can teach a different style and build a boxer up despite how he boxed himself. I think this is all down to his large amounts of experience(good and bad) in the boxing world.

My dad doesn't favour any one era of boxing. If he saw the classical / modern thing on here, he'd probably laugh. In fact, he much prefers to watch amateur boxing these days. His favourite fighters are Duran, Frazier and Minter, though he is a fan of basically anyone, especially skilled aggressive boxers like Moore. Told me to study Duran, Holyfield and Harada. He's also a big fan of Lomachenko and Inoue at the moment, alongside smaller name upcoming pro boxers like Akeem Brown and Joey Hughes who we have met (and he knows). He's the one who told me to study boxers, and that's how I found this forum. I'm grateful to have him as a dad and coach.

 

Buster Douglas stresses conditioning?

 

Experience is a good teacher.

 

Absolutely Not. You should come in with rolls and 3 chins. Then maybe you could channel a modern Heavyweights power like Ruiz

 

I'm like 70kg

 

Growing lad.

 

Eating more like. I can get down 10 stone 7, so 147.

 

Food is a boxers greatest opponent.

 

Willie Meehan could tell you all about it.

I have a Mild Cherry Pepsi addition so Bernard Hopkins would not be happy with me

 

To me, a fighter has to learn the fundamentals first, after that he can fight any "style" that he wants. Good fundamentals and good body mechanics go together. I like the fundamentals and technique of FMJ, Andre Ward, Evander Holyfield, Gil Turner, George Benton, and many more. If somebody asks me who is good to watch, those are some that I'll name. Of the ones that I'd recommend, they have various "styles" but their fundamentals and good body mechanics are shared.

I was watching the Ruiz - Joshua fight with some of our fighters and Callum Smith fought on that card. None of us knew who he was before the fight, but with his fundamentals and technique, he quickly got everybody's attention. I've only seen him fight once, but he's another that I'd recommend to young fighters. Other fighters that come to mind, Lomachenko, Usyk, and one that I just saw a few days ago, Lloyd Marshall. And, the training videos of Andy Ruiz inspire our younger fighters. The guy gets incredible power and speed while maintaining near perfect form. The ones I named are just some that came to mind, there are many more who are probably just as good to watch.

 

I don't want to misinterpret what you are saying. When you say 'oldtime' fighters that covers alot of territory.
When you look at films of the great fighters from the 30s and 40s even 50s, you think the fighters of today are ''much better"?

 

Right I forgot about the superpowers that modern fat™ gives you

 

Yeah that was the first thing he had me do was run. He made everyone do at least 30 minutes on the treadmill when they got there.

 

I know his dad was the Polar opposite of Buster. Dynamite Douglas was a junkyard dog. You had to drag him out of the gym. You had to drag Buster out of Dunkin Donuts