The face to face at weigh-ins or pre fight at press conference is often made a big deal of in professional boxing and especially these days.
Sometimes it can lead to a push from the fighters that can if not separated lead to a brawl and spark fists flying.
The promoter or security often really is needed to separate the two fighters for this reason and is essential for the fight to be kept going because of fists fly before hand, a commission or regulatory body may call the fight off it the fight happens before the fight.
Some read a lot into them and you’ll see ahead of Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua there’s a lot of comments about their face offs at the moment.
Sometimes you can over analyze them, what we find over the years it is the boxers clinching their teeth and jaws that are often the most nervous ones.
What Can Be Learned From The Modern Stare Down
The first to look away sometimes can be seen as a thing of a mental defeat but not always.
Sometimes the fighters genuinely do not like one another and there has to be someone there to be in the middle to separate the face off because things really can lead to fists flying sometimes.
Before the punches fly sometimes mental warfare has a small part to play.
Other times there is a bit of showmanship involved where the fighters don’t have any bad blood at all to one another and it is just business building the fight and talking trash.
Silence is often the best sign of a fighter winning a head to head but again, fans sometimes look into this part of the fight game a bit too much.
What counts is what happens when that first bell goes.
