Your Recovery as a Boxing Trainer
As a Boxing Coach in Watford I spend a lot of my time training clients, if I am not in the gym training, whether that is pad work or sparring then I am out of gym and still working, that could going for a run or it could be updating social media and writing articles […]
Continue readingTop Five Heavyweights of All Time
Heavyweight boxing stands at the top of the boxing tree, the marquee division has often been the middleweight division, today it is the welterweight class but we all know the stronger the heavyweight division is, the stronger the sport of boxing is. The heavyweight champion will always have a head start as the face of […]
Continue readingThrowing the Double Hook
The double hook is a very effective combination in boxing when used with other punches which set up the hooks. But in the same way, the hooks can set up each other, in this article I will explain how you can do this when throwing the double hook. Ok so I am talking about the […]
Continue reading3 Newly Crowned Champions Who Partied Too Hard and Lost…
So last week Anthony Joshua reclaimed the heavyweight titles of the world with a very comfortable win over Andy Ruiz Jr. Joshua was in control the whole fight and stuck to his game plan, which was a lot of lateral movement and not to engage on the rare occasion Andy Ruiz Jr was able to […]
Continue readingAnthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr II – The Breakdown
Anthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr II – The Breakdown Next week will see the biggest fight of the year in the heavyweight division when Anthony Joshua rematches against Andy Ruiz Jr. As we all know, Ruiz shocked the world when he defeated Joshua earlier in the year, upsetting Joshua’s maiden fight in the USA […]
Continue readingHow to Counter the Right Cross by Mike McCallum
Mike McCallum was a three weight world champion who boxed in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Heavily avoided, McCallum was known as the body snatcher for his penchant to target the body in his attacks. Featured in my book Forgotten Legends of the Ring, McCallum had a sharp boxing IQ and was certainly someone you’d call […]
Continue readingOn This Day – The Ali Shuffle is Born…
On November 14th 1966 Muhammad Ali faced Cleveland Williams at the Houston Astrodome in Texas, USA. At the time, Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams wasn’t especially a massive fight, sure every fight Ali had was big news, but this wasn’t a Sonny Liston – not any more anyhow. The Williams of yesteryear was actually a […]
Continue readingFloyd Mayweather Jr – Check Mate
I have written in the past about not being predictable in your boxing, many times we see the really great boxers aren’t those who punch the hardest or punch the fastest, but think the quickest and make things hard for their opponent, whether that is mixing it up with how they throw certain punches or […]
Continue readingArturo Gatti – Decoy
The video in this article features Arturo Gatti, now Gatti is setting up the body shot but there is so much more we can learn from what he is doing. Firstly, yes Gatti sets up the shot to the body by hitting up top. A more basic example of this is touching up top with […]
Continue readingFloyd Mayweather Jr – The Knockdown
Floyd Mayweather Jr in my opinion is the best boxer we have seen in the 21st century. Known now as ‘Money Mayweather’, there was much much more to his game than simply generating hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the biggest names in combat sports including Manny Pacquaio and Conor McGregor, after all to make […]
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