these two actually fought each other

[yo moms]

and we out here with no god damn footage of what i imagine would have been a damn masterclass in boxing.

george benton md10 freddie little



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im starvin out here for more freddie little footage. starving. i dont even know where to look anymore. i been on all these boxing forums asking collectors. i email these fight collectors. i message these japanese guys on youtube who be putting up rare rare fights. i aint found shyt.

 

[yo moms]

Benton bounced back with a close decision win over future junior middleweight champion, the thunderous punching Freddie Little, who was not yet at his peak, but was still a dangerous fighter. Film of the devastating 2nd round K.O Little scored defending his unified 154lb championship in 1969 against Hisao Minami gives an indication of what Benton would’ve been up against.

Little punched hard, and was being brought up like a prospect, beating trial horse Charley Cotton and knocking out Australian middleweight champion Clive Stewart. Benton, a 2-1 underdog, won a tight one with cards of 5-5, 5-3-2 and 5-4-1, coming on strong late with combinations, bloodying Little‟s nose. To Little’s credit, he had Benton cut badly over the eye in the 10th and final round (UPI) Little would bounce back after his loss to Benton with a win over Charley Josephs.

thats all we got

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Why does Freddie Little fight so rigid and flat-footed?

 

[Yuzo]

why do you like freddie little so much

 

[yo moms]

Why does Freddie Little fight so rigid and flat-footed?

cus hes a beast

why do you like freddie little so much

cus i stan the way he fights im out here trying to emulate how he fights and i only got one full fight of his

 

[Yuzo]

but what do you see

what things is he doing that you are seeing

 

[yo moms]

but what do you see

what things is he doing that you are seeing

perfect stance. everything comes off the back foot. doesnt use his hands for defense.

up/down principle. where the jab comes from below the line of sight. and the right hand comes over.

damn. they dont make em like that anymore.

 

[Yuzo]

perfect stance. everything comes off the back foot. doesnt use his hands for defense.

up/down principle. where the jab comes from below the line of sight. and the right hand comes over.

damn. they dont make em like that anymore.

yeah his stance stands out right away he sometimes has a majority of his body weight back on his right leg vs evenly over each leg. fighters dont do that anymore thats a bob fitzsimmons stance. i dont think a fighter has to do that but it has the advantage that it maximizes the transfer of weight from back leg to front leg when throwing a right hand, so that 100% of body weight is carried forward with the right hand, sort of like a pitcher throwing a baseball. but i was more interested in his jab like you said he has a rising jab that comes up from the hip which is hard to see because its coming from just under your field of vision. left hooks are hard to see too, for the same reason, that it comes around your field of vision, instead of straight through it, like a right hand, and it can blindside you. its a blindside punch. but that jab was the key in this fight he was whipping his head with that jab. freddie little was feeding jabs to him like peanut m & m's he was landing just about every jab he threw hard. he knocked him out with that big right hand but that fight was more of a jab clinic.

i just wanted to point out one thing. his opponent was throwing a lot of counter jabs when freddie little jabbed. the way to counter a counter jab is to throw your jab, just to activate the counter jab, and then counter it with a right hand over the top. thats how freddie little knocked him out. but the jab is what set it all up. being patient and restricting your punch output to jabs, forces your opponent to plan around the jab exclusively, which makes him predictable, like a pitcher trying to set up a change up, by showing the hitter only fast balls. its the same concept.

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[yo moms]

yeah his stance stands out right away he sometimes has a majority of his body weight back on his right leg vs evenly over each leg. fighters dont do that anymore thats a bob fitzsimmons stance. i dont think a fighter has to do that but it has the advantage that it maximizes the transfer of weight from back leg to front leg when throwing a right hand, so that 100% of body weight is carried forward with the right hand, sort of like a pitcher throwing a baseball. but i was more interested in his jab like you said he has a rising jab that comes up from the hip which is hard to see because its coming from just under your field of vision. left hooks are hard to see too, for the same reason, that it comes around your field of vision, instead of straight through it, like a right hand, and it can blindside you. its a blindside punch. but that jab was the key in this fight he was whipping his head with that jab. freddie little was feeding jabs to him like peanut m & m's he was landing just about every jab he threw hard. he knocked him out with that big right hand but that fight was more of a jab clinic.

i just wanted to point out one thing. his opponent was throwing a lot of counter jabs when freddie little jabbed. the way to counter a counter jab is to throw your jab, just to activate the counter jab, and then counter it with a right hand over the top. thats how freddie little knocked him out. but the jab is what set it all up. being patient and restricting your punch output to jabs, forces your opponent to plan around the jab exclusively, which makes him predictable, like a pitcher trying to set up a change up, by showing the hitter only fast balls. its the same concept.

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good shyt

breh can you gif his right hands? i think he only throws like 3 the whole fight. but the weight transfer is perfect. he keeps the weight on his rear hip until the last possible moment to maximise the power. what you see a lot these days is fighters moving their weight onto the front hip too early so they lose a lot of the power.

and this is the only other footage we got of him.

 

[Yuzo]

i thought the right hand he knocked him out with was thrown wrong. his stance was too wide. he didnt get all his body weight to transfer forward over that left leg because that left leg was too far out in front of him to put all of his body weight over it. try to throw a ball with your legs spread that wide and you wont throw it very far.

i think the power came because his opponent was moving into the punch, which are why counter punches can seem so much deadlier than a regular punch, they double the impact.

 

[yo moms]

i thought the right hand he knocked him out with was thrown wrong. his stance was too wide. he didnt get all his body weight to transfer forward over that left leg because that left leg was too far out in front of him to put all of his body weight over it. try to throw a ball with your legs spread that wide and you wont throw it very far.

i think the power came because his opponent was moving into the punch, which are why counter punches can seem so much deadlier than a regular punch, they double the impact.

thats a picture perfect right hand in my eyes. i dont believe you should ever put all of your weight over the front foot when throwing the cross. it puts you in a bad position and you can still get maximum power without moving all your weight over the front foot. the weight should also go diagonally downwards.

you see how his head position isnt compromised by going too far over the front foot? its also off to the side

 

[Yuzo]

can you throw left hooks with your legs spread wide apart

 

[NormanConnors]

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that right hand. Cant you break your ankle with the way Little was positioning his right foot on that 45 degree angle? but still the power

 

[Uncle Kingpin]

Little uses a martial arts style lead jab where the power comes from transferring weight from the back to lead leg instead of the classic boxing style jab which is powered with torque. We call it a stun punch. It's almost unblockable when in range but isnt very powerful. It's very effective because you cant see it coming, there's no lateral movement which is the usual tell for an incoming jab. The best part of this technique is the right cross power shot is already loaded to follow the jab.

 

[yo moms]

Little uses a martial arts style lead jab where the power comes from transferring weight from the back to lead leg instead of the classic boxing style jab which is powered with torque. We call it a stun punch. It's almost unblockable when in range but isnt very powerful. It's very effective because you cant see it coming, there's no lateral movement which is the usual tell for an incoming jab. The best part of this technique is the right cross power shot is already loaded to follow the jab.

i disagree that it isnt very powerful. just from watching you can tell thats a powerful jab.