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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4285331, member: 289"]
Some fighters have styles. Some fighters have strategies. Frazier's style allowed him to compete with Ali but he had no answer for Foreman who lost to Ali. Frazier got a rematch with Foreman and was told to "stay away from him". Joe Frazier stay away? No chance and he had no chance. In baseball, they have the "sophomore jinx". It's not a jinx. It's that pitchers get a 'book' and a young hitter and avoid the pitches he likes and feed him a steady diet of the pitches he doesn't like. If he can adjust to that, he continues on to a productive career. If not, he fades and becomes a flash in the pan. The best fighters can determine what is not working and change what they are doing in mid-fight to take advantage of an opponent's weaknesses while minimizing their own. Joe Smith is not among the best fighters.

If Beterbiev is defeated, (or even has to wait for a judge's decision), it will be when he fights a fighter who is different than him, not one who is going to try to out-gun him. The  greatest boxers, in their prime defeat the greatest punchers, (Corbett-Sullivan, Tunny-Dempsey, Ali-Liston/Foreman, etc.). If there is a great boxer who can operate as a light-heavyweight, he could beat Beterbiev. Is that Bivol? Maybe. (I doubt it's Yarde.)
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