The AMERICAN BOXING Style Breakdown

🔬Is there SUCH A THING as American Boxing? Check our In depth Analysis.

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0:00 Intro
1:00 Pro Boxing App
1:24 American Philosophy
3:13 Ring Generalship
4:26 Rolling Punches
5:54 Mid-Range Work
7:03 Make 'Em Miss, Make 'Em Pay
8:24 Sharp Punching
9:28 Flashiness
10:45 Question?

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[Acoto]

I think you got it right when you boiled it down to "slick" or "flashiness". There's a heavy emphasis on making your opponent look bad through head movement and footwork and then hitting them hard.

[PUGiLLiZM]

American boxing is like another time honored American national treasure….jazz….the better it is, the less it’s appreciated. Reflects technical brilliance with highest level of intuition, master level improv. And don’t get it confused ….an American style is equipped to walk an opponent down once it’s time to turn up that pressure.

[synvaVal]

The American style is what really make you appreciate the sport, the ability to land punches to your opponents without getting hit yourself is one of the hardest skill to master 🥊

[EdwardNigma]

Pls do video about James Toney!!! There are no videos about his technique (especially with such quality as your videos). He is a very high-skilled and quite underrated boxer

[LeadLeftLeon]

Bivol is the first draft of the Soviet Step at the highest levels in pro boxing. I can’t wait to see future iterations of the Soviet Step as it evolves for pro boxing. Bivol was the first translation of it

[lawbinson]

A lot of people think a brawl in the middle of the ring is the most exciting. But this is the sweet science and seeing it executed in this manner by a master is true excitement.

[UhHuhMagik]

Fantastic video! The biggest difference I’ve noticed between our style of boxing in the U.S. vs other nations always seems to be footwork. Soviet and Cuban boxers stay light on their feet, with an extreme focus on balance. They’re very rhythmic. Mexican boxers tend to stay planted, almost flat footed, while they continue to press forward, never backwards. Almost no rhythm other than their punches.
American style seems to be a mixture of both. Mixing their rhythm up, going from inside planted, to outside on their toes, and back to mid range flat footed again.

[RPGgrenade]

Considering the increase in its popularity (and Naoya Inoue being a powerhouse these days), it would be nice to hear more about the Japanese style of boxing, too.

[RickBraun-qm]

I’d love to see a series contrasting the various American cities’ styles - Philly, Detroit, NY, etc.

[interestedparty]

It may be flashy, but they’re smooth, relaxed and fast that you look stupid trying to land on them. It’s not flashy for flashy sake. At some times yes, but it’s not the norm.

[keymaker]

Nailed it. I love comparing the styles along different dimensions, for example, Morale Breaking; every style lends itself to breaking it's opponents morale in a completely different way:

- American style boxing is meant to break your opponent's morale through power, precision, timing, and taunts. This makes your opponent feel outclassed, doubt themselves and quit.
- Euro/Soviet style boxing is meant to break your opponent's moral through non-stop consistency. This makes your opponent feel like they're fighting a machine and they quit.
- Mexican style boxing is meant to break your opponent's moral through sheer damage, insane courage and pressure. This makes your opponent feel like prey, like they're being stalked, and they quit.

Each style is probably mentally harder for different fighters to cope with, depending on their own personality and mindset.

[heyy]

The foundations of Modern Boxing, whether you're taking in a fight in a London, Tokyo, Perth, Vegas, Mexico City, or Moscow, were laid in Detroit. From a historical perspective, New York City was where American Boxing developed into what it was. But International fight fans and fighters have always been super-impressed with the Philly stuff, which I guess is because they'd never teach it there.

[trollofantthevariable]

I agree with the sharp punching, flash, and rolling. Really everything. U did a good job.

[DiamondWolfZero]

I would say that main focus of American Boxing is style itself.
Good American boxers tend to stand out more than most. Whereas Russians or Mexicans would stick to the styles they've known and learned. Americans will often adapt through footwork and be far more aggressive with footwork, practically standing on or over your foot. Your analysis is very much spot on. Especially with movement. I'm an American. And a former boxer. As an American, my goal is to change my opponents mind.

[sonofromel]

James Tony and Floyd made the Philly shell a classic.

[ToxicMedic]

This is exactly the style i wanna develope into

[ayoonine]

That Andre Ward sequence was beautiful

[JustinHampton-lj]

I never noticed since I think of USA as having a very diverse style due to the vastly different regions and individuality here.

Thanks for pointing these out!
Particularly the most famous fighters seem to go for more clowning/humiliation tactics compared to other regions.

You can see several distinct styles though
Ali, an extremely confident outboxer
Frazier, an aggressive bob-and-weaver with a dynamite left
Tyson, a uniquely aggressive powerpuncher with defensive responsibility
Floyd, the master of defense
Even the cross-guard has famed American fighters
SRL is probably the probably the prime example of an American boxer, as he shows all of the mentioned traits in abundance.

It's great to watch the masters at work, I just wish some of them would tone down the cocky stuff and fight!

[lorenzomonfredi]

Love your videos! Support from Italy 🥊🇮🇹
Btw you've summarized perfectly the general skills of american boxing. Obviously there could be more technical things but then you'd have to go deep into each specific style (Detroit/Michigan, Philly, NY, LA, etc.etc.)