The ‘Fierce Eagle’ just brings connotations to your mind of a magnificent bird circling its prey looking for the right time to strike with save intensity. This ring moniker suited Yoko Gushiken to a tee. A brilliant ring general with a huge punch in both hands and an astonishing turn of pace.
A friend of mine describes watching Gushiken as an experience and he is right. The first time you watch this master in the ring you are transfixed to his excellence. He is not the most exciting fighter or a very flashy one but by lord is he excellent to watch.
The first thing that strikes you when you watch Gushiken is his marvellous ring generalship. He moves round the ring like the eagle circling its prey. He slowly makes openings and starts to control his prey through his brilliant mastery of distance. Once he has his prey where he wants him he strikes with relentless ferocity, exploding from long range with long straight shots from his southpaw stance. The straight left being his money punch. After he has landed his combination with laser like precision he bounces back out to continue circling his prey.
Gushiken is one of the most composed fighters I have seen in the ring. He is so relaxed but yet always ready to strike. It sounds a weird mix his style and believe me it is hard to describe but it really is a very pleasant style to watch.
His combinations are another great thing about him. Very rarely does he throw single shots he almost always explodes into 4 or 5 punch combinations. These combinations are mainly composed of right hooks and straight lefts all thrown with such proficiency. They are sharp combinations the type that do real damage as they catch an opponent unaware and Gushiken has full extension on his shots so inflicts maximum damage. This is what attracts him to fans that are not so aware of intricate ring generalship and tactics. Gushiken is definitely one of the best combinational punchers I have seen at Light Flyweight just threw the sheer accuracy of them and the damage they inflict.
His whole style of boxing is controlled but you feel the sense of him about to explode at any minute into a combination. Like a lid on a can about to burst. His explosions come out in super accurate controlled combinations, but this underlying anger comes through when he hurts his man as he throws relentlessly but still keeps his technique and precision. His merciless attack is a sight to behold. When his man is dropped from the attack Yoko can't seem to controll himself and 90% of the time lands a glancing shot when his oppoennt is on the floor which is very odd for such a controlled boxer.
Well, thats Yoko Gushiken the afroed master of the Light Flyweights. Many people rate him the bst Light Flyweight that ever lived i would disagree and say the fantastic Jung-Koo Chang holds that honour but Gushiken is second on my list just a fantastic fighter.
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