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08/02/2008 Archived Entry: "Boxing: Stalk, Stun and Close"
Boxing: Stalk, Stun and Close
By Ted Sares
Courtesy of Eastsideboxing.com
Destruct and destroy.
--Marvelous Marvin Hagler
There are few things that sap the morale of an opponent more than knowing from the start that the most he can achieve is to keep the deficit respectable.
--Mike Casey
For all of the years that I’d seen him, Monzon never gasped for air, tired or opened his mouth gagging for oxygen in any round.
--George Diaz Smith
There is something primal about seek and destroy fighters that reminds me of the Discovery Channel. Who can forget Julio Caesar Chavez‘s invasion of his opponent’s privacy, his unwanted contact, his savage execution?
Fighters like Chavez, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Roberto Duran, and Khaosai Galaxy, to name a few, defined this style during their respective reigns of terror. They would start the chase as soon as the bell rang cutting off the ring and getting closer and closer until they made initial contact. Pipino Cuevas (pre-Hearns) was a classic tracker who instilled fear in his opponents and rendered them vulnerable with his jack hammer left hooks. He then dispatched them with no further adieu. Their “track them down and execute style of fighting” has become a part of fistic lore.
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