European fighters

By kiki

For the last three decades, I have noticed that European fighters have come close (if they are not already doing so), to dominating pro boxing. But it wasn't always like this. - If you're old enough to have watched boxing in the 1940s and up to the 1980's you know that the American and Mexican boxers dominated the sport in those years. Then, in the '60s and '70s, the Japanese came to the forefront with some great fighters. But the European fighters were still lagging behind, and why was that? In my humble opinion, it was because they brought their amateur Olympic-style of straight-up, chin in the air, no-body punches, kind of style into the pro ranks. But, unfortunately, that style was not good enough to compete with the great American and Mexican fighters of 50+ years ago. The European fighters only came into their own once they adopted the American and Mexican styles of fighting; now that they have, they are producing some very good, some you could even call great fighters. Just my thoughts.