The Check Hook
The hook is one of the most explosive, if not the most explosive punch in boxing. Left hook knockouts(or right hook if you happen to be a southpaw) provide many a highlight reel and the greatest exponents of the hook are celebrated in boxing. Who had the greatest left hook for example? You might hear […]
Continue readingHow to Use the Uppercut by Sugar Ray Robinson
how to use the uppercut by sugar ray robinson.
Continue readingOn This Day – Salvador Sanchez Dies…
On August 12th 1982, Salvador Sanchez would die in a car crash whilst still in training for his next fight. Sanchez was just 23yrs old.
Continue readingWho was the Best ever Boxing trainer?
Boxing Coach – Who’s the greatest? Boxing trainers don’t always get a love of love, they are the people who work diligently in the background, making sure their fighter is in shape for the contest, working on a game plan, ensuring the fighter makes weight, gets his sparring partners. When a fighter wins or puts […]
Continue readingBoxing Feints by Muhammad Ali
How to use the feint by Muhammad Ali Feinting is an extremely important art in boxing. The better you become as a boxer, the more important it is to learn boxing feints in order to open up your opponent. A skilled opponent would have been drilled in defending the basic punches and punch combinations, […]
Continue readingPunching with the Roll – Salvador Sanchez
Boxing Tricks – Punching with the Roll Salvador Sanchez might have gone on to become Mexico’s greatest ever boxer but sadly died in a car accident aged just 23. Not only was he headed for greatness in a land full of supreme fighters, he would have become an all time great boxer and one […]
Continue readingSweet Pea Pernell Whitaker Dies Aged 55 in Accident
Boxing Great Pernell Whitaker hit by car and dies from injuries The first time I saw Pernell Whitaker box was in the early 1990’s. My brother called me over to watch one of his fights on TV(before the days of pay per view and fights were available on channels such as Sky Sports and Eurosport). […]
Continue readingBoxing Skills – The Spin and Shoot
Turning an opponent, spinning an opponent are great skills to possess in boxing, even better though is to add a punch to the end of the turning or spinning. This is because by turning your opponent you have moved them to a position of weakness whilst you are in a position of strength. They say […]
Continue readingBoxing Tricks – The Push and Shoot
The Push and Punch The push and shoot is a great tool to use for inside fighting, many past greats such as Henry Armstrong(who was featured in my book Forgotten Legends of the Ring), often used this tactic to land unsuspecting punches on their opponents. The trick is best used inside by using the lead […]
Continue readingHow to Defend the Double Jab by James Toney
The Catch and Slip How to defend the double jab is not something I am commonly asked, which is almost a surprise because you would think the double jab is one of the attacks a boxer is most used to seeing and having to defend against. I have previously made a video on how to […]
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