Why is there so many fighters trying to be like toney, bhop, and Floyd jr.

One of the major trends in the last few years that I have noticed is that fighters that does not know how to do philly shell defense tries to do pull it off in their mega matches.

For example:

Jermain Taylor kept his left hand down all night against Kelly Pavlik in a halfassed philly shell stance and took 1-2s all night long until he got KTFO.

and....

Julio Diaz who took repeated rights all night against Juan Diaz. Is he trying to look cool or he really thought that he could avoid punishment in a half philly stance with no upper body movement....


Is everyone trying to be like Floyd, bhop, and Toney? I see tons of fighters who fight with their guard down and have zero upper body movements or agile enough to slip....

 

Actually almost everytime I watch pro boxers fight, they would drop their hands but recently I have seen champions who used not too drop their hands do in a half assed philly like stance where their left hand is on their hips.

 

Paulie does do it pretty decent but he have no standing def like bhop, toney or Floyd. He does got the quickness to bait for counters or jet out of the range but Taylor and Julio did a horrible job. They took so many right hands. I mean did they not study the tapes of Pavlik huge right and Juan's volume combos....? I just don't get it sometimes.