On 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 […]
Continue readingThomas Hearns – A Masterclass on the Feint
Recently I have made a number of videos on the feint and how they were used by various fighters, for good reason too because feinting is such an essential art in boxing, I just cannot believe you can afford to box without proper use of the feint because the better the boxer you are going […]
Continue readingClosing the Gap – Bernard Hopkins
So what is one referring to when they talk about ‘closing the gap’? Closing the gap in boxing usually refers to closing the distance between yourself and the your opponent. <br /> Ok so we have established that closing the gap is basically the distance between you and your opponent, that gap can also be […]
Continue readingNicolino Locche and the Feint
In today’s article I am going to go over the feint and how it was used by Nicolino Locche to win the world light welterweight title back in 1968. The feint is used to open an opponent up by faking a punch to extract a reaction to help you read what your opponent is going […]
Continue readingHow to Fight Someone Bigger than you by Charley Burley
Recently I put up a quick video on social media about Charley Burley. Now Burley was the first person I featured in my book Forgotten Legends of the Ring, Burley is often cited as the greatest boxer never to win a world title, not because he wasn’t good enough but because he was also the […]
Continue readingOld School Boxing – Defending the Jab Cross
The Catch and Step Out Defending the jab cross is second only to defending the jab in the combinations you will have to face and defend against as a boxer. The old one, two is the most basic combination of them all and as such that means it is the combo you will likely see […]
Continue readingKovalev vs Yarde and Lomachenko vs Campbell
So this past weekend we had a ‘big’ fight over in Russia where Sergey Kovalev battled against the young challenger Anthony Yarde and tonight we have pound for pound star Vasyl Lomachenko going to fellow Olympic champion Luke Campbells back yard. First, the fight review for Kovalev vs Yarde. Kovalev had look rejuvenated under the […]
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