Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
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Few fights upset me more than this..
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
thats a big question. that would be either a fighter that can fight on them on the inside or a fighter that can keep them on the outside. since the ring is a square, that means you have to move in circles inside of the square, because if you back up in straight lines, your back will hit the ropes or you will get stuck in a corner. in other words you stop moving. there is a certain way to do that, that all the great movers have in common. i'll talk about that a little bit.
first, theres a certain way to throw the jab. you have you press down on your front foot, and in the same motion, swing over your back foot. that looks like this.
believe it or not, youre actually only standing on one foot when you throw that jab: your front front. that turns your front leg into a hinge, and, when you throw this jab, you will feel as though you are swinging your body to the left.
why is all that important? it lets you side step. try to think of punches as having hit boxes.
that would be a right hand and the idea is that, by circling to the left, you will circle out of its hot zone and enter into a cold zone, where that punch cant hit you. and if you can maintain that position, by always circling to your left and always getting into that spot, which would be a little off his right shoulder, he always has to try to get you back into his hot zone before he can try to land that punch. in other words, you are turning him. that is what it means when you hear people saying that.
heres a good shot of a guy circling to the left, i believe that is actually kingsly ikeke, but as you can see even though he is circling to his left, he always is still right in front of the opponent, so he never really exits out of his hot zone.
you can see when you watch the wilder fury fight that wilder circles a lot like that, where he never really gets to that spot outside of fury's right shoulder, stays in front of him so he never exits out of fury's hot zone, and so he is never able to turn fury. what you are looking for is that ability to side step out of that hot zone, which will look like this. you are looking for that break away action.
who was the best at that? i cant say. you have mayweather, ali, whitaker; its a long list. what i can tell you is that they all possess that jab, and they all have the ability to turn their opponents.
Great post. That last gif was something I thought of that monzon was actually very good at dealing with em himself.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
That may in hindsight be the last great US Olympic team?
There is a highlights vid out there... next best thing thoughWhy ain't Trinidad Reid up on YouTube what the fukk.
malbaker86
Gators
I've said it before, EVERYONE'S path in boxing is different. Everyone constructs their resume different. What matters NOW is that he's fighting better/top comp. Who gives a shyt who he fought in his 3rd pro fight. I bet nobody knows (outside of Loma), who the first 5 fighters their fav fighter faced.
Who the hell did Canelo fight before he fought Cotto in 2010 that was worth a damn at the time they fought him???
RICKY HATTON BROTHER
Really shows the level of opposition, 39 fights against low level opposition shows how padded the record was.
