What do u like about Miyata I don’t get what people like about him and yes I would love to hear the personality and Motivation and that stuff but what I really wanna hear is is his fighting style.

Miyata represents the more sweet science aspect of boxing which I feel like is wholly technical and the truest form of boxing. Personally the technical side is not my thing but as a boxing pundit I can appreciate it. Usually everything fighters like this do are very textbook and as someone who has been boxing myself, I understand the hard work and time it takes to drill those 'habits' over and over again till it's second nature. In real life, this style is not flashy but if you do it right, you will definitely rank up points. This style is not meant for knockouts but it wins fights and a good example is Mayweather's later career when he fully mastered the Philly Shell to a T (parry jab with lead hand, block straight to the head with your back hand to your head, shoulder roll left hooks to the head and block right hooks to the body with elbow block from back hand, slip and weave the rest). You would learn in-depth the more technical aspect of boxing as compared to just brawling so you would prioritises timing and rhythm, setting the pace by establishing your jab and not giving your opponent time to think. Gauge his reach and your own so that you know where to step out of range if he delivers his own punches. As soon as he makes a mistake, boom deliver a devastating counter which you would have trained to be very accurate and fast. Other than also probe and try to notice your opponent's habits maybe he tends to go a certain direction or throws a certain predictable combinations. Usually the 1st 2 rounds in boxing, pro boxers will do just that and that's why bouts start slow as they try to read their opponents. You can probe by throwing certain combinations and see how they react to it and from there and come up with your own conclusions with what traps to set and counter your opponent. However, certain things might be your opponent laying traps so you would have to train your reflexes and defense just in case. If your opponent's style is being fast and active, you can set your own trap by constantly aiming the body so as to sap his stamina and by the later rounds, he would exhausted and not be able to use his normal style. You have to think of contingents constantly. That's why people say boxing is a chess game like just imagine Kanoh Agito always evolving to find ways to defeat opponent but yeah boxers do that every fight as their training drills can prepare them for anything. An example would be Wilder Fury I, Fury was ducking and weaving and outboxing Wilder and getting points but when Wilder steps in an delivers his unorthodox powerful straights, Fury is flat on his ass and got knocked down twice. It took Fury till round 10 to realise that Wilder telegraphs and takes time to wind up his straight. Seeing this, Fury realised that he should just pressure Wilder and go closer to Wilder's in-fighting range so that he doesn't have time and space to wind up his straight which seems suicidal because any normal boxer would have easily sent prevented and attack as soon as someone steps within his range. However, the gamble paid off and exposed Wilder as a fraud with a power punch because before this in Wilder's past 39 fights, everyone except maybe Ortiz have never pressured him to his back foot as they all respected and feared Wilder's power. As a boxer you have to train for every possible scenario so if someone pressures you to the back foot, you either train in evading and stepping away or you train your in-fighting and Wilder did not train for either. And from round 11 to 12, Fury pushed Wilder and won those rounds easily. In their rematch, Fury right off the bat just pressured Wilder on his back foot and pump the fucking brakes out of him as Wilder didn't even realise the glaring weakness he had as he got 2 knock downs from the first fight and thought he was doing alright. So yeah the sweet science is a mind game and the technical aspect that Miyata encompasses, prepares you for the common and basic type of boxers however that can be rigid and predictable and can be countered by people who rely on raw talent and unorthodox techniques such as Mayweather saying one of his toughest fights was against Emanuel Augustus who was very unorthodox and had unusual rhythms and angles as opposed to someone who fit the basic mold.

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