I had two boxing matches during my college days. Both were backyard with 12 oz gloves. My first was as a light heavyweight at about 175 , 6'6, well conditioned from bicycling, and had no experience. I fought a heavyweight about 6' 2 and 211 who was a gym nut and had sparred some. I did my best to move outside and use my reach and speed to jab and counter but he was fast and came in low under my punches to hit my body. We traded for a couple of minutes with him chasing me, I scored some good jabs and rights to his head but he kept closing and hitting me hard till he landed a hard left hook to my solar plexus when I brought my gloves up to far. I went down for an eight count. Pretty much the same for a couple of more minutes till I was exhausted and getting out punched and went down after he landed a left right combo to my belly and chin. It was the first clean punch to my chin. I got up but was dazed and my legs were numb. I went down for good a few seconds later for a KO. I have an 81" reach and managed to jab pretty well and landed some hard rights at first. I didn't have the upper body power to keep him off me and got tired fast. I tried to cover when he landed some hard punches and moved away jabbing. Lasted longer than I expected when we first started. Trading a couple of punches against the bigger man and not getting kod gave me a rush. Felt good to land some solid punches and surprised I took his punches as long as I did.
I agree with hookuppercut's posts. These skills all need a lot of practice, and a ring is the best place to learn ring generalship. It's good to get a lot of sparring mileage vs as many different opponents as possible, and at times a boxer needs to be prepared to spar guys bigger, taller and better than him. Short boxers should work extra hard in training on their core fitness, footwork and workrate, because fighting taller opponents requires them to be agile and constantly aggressive.
For a short guy like me, a tall guy who uses his reach well and moves around can be a difficult proposition, so I try to close the distance to make it harder for him to use his big weapon: the boom-boom 1-2. Using the step-in to fire a hard jab to set up a combination can work, especially if it catches the guy off-guard. Sometimes tall guys leave their midsections a little open, or might not be well-conditioned down there, so hard body punches can often be effective. Aggression is the best form of defence against tall boxers who are used to fighting the classic circle-and-1-2 style: work out what kind of fight they DON'T want, and give them that!
Love boxing! YEAH!
I know usually in boxing the taller opponent has a longer reach and that is seen as a bigger advantage but are there any scenarios in which a shorter boxer can use his height to have an advantage over his opponent with a longer reach?
There are several things the shorter guy has to do to get inside a taller opponent: 1) Cut off the ring with good foot movement; 2) jab to get inside;3) good head movement to slip punches; 4) once inside, hook and uppercut and change angles with good pivoting.
Tall6x6 (0)
11/05/2017 5:20 AMI had two boxing matches during my college days. Both were backyard with 12 oz gloves. My first was as a light heavyweight at about 175 , 6'6, well conditioned from bicycling, and had no experience. I fought a heavyweight about 6' 2 and 211 who was a gym nut and had sparred some. I did my best to move outside and use my reach and speed to jab and counter but he was fast and came in low under my punches to hit my body. We traded for a couple of minutes with him chasing me, I scored some good jabs and rights to his head but he kept closing and hitting me hard till he landed a hard left hook to my solar plexus when I brought my gloves up to far. I went down for an eight count. Pretty much the same for a couple of more minutes till I was exhausted and getting out punched and went down after he landed a left right combo to my belly and chin. It was the first clean punch to my chin. I got up but was dazed and my legs were numb. I went down for good a few seconds later for a KO. I have an 81" reach and managed to jab pretty well and landed some hard rights at first. I didn't have the upper body power to keep him off me and got tired fast. I tried to cover when he landed some hard punches and moved away jabbing. Lasted longer than I expected when we first started. Trading a couple of punches against the bigger man and not getting kod gave me a rush. Felt good to land some solid punches and surprised I took his punches as long as I did.
AussieBoxer (39 )
10/27/2017 8:43 AMI agree with hookuppercut's posts. These skills all need a lot of practice, and a ring is the best place to learn ring generalship. It's good to get a lot of sparring mileage vs as many different opponents as possible, and at times a boxer needs to be prepared to spar guys bigger, taller and better than him. Short boxers should work extra hard in training on their core fitness, footwork and workrate, because fighting taller opponents requires them to be agile and constantly aggressive.
For a short guy like me, a tall guy who uses his reach well and moves around can be a difficult proposition, so I try to close the distance to make it harder for him to use his big weapon: the boom-boom 1-2. Using the step-in to fire a hard jab to set up a combination can work, especially if it catches the guy off-guard. Sometimes tall guys leave their midsections a little open, or might not be well-conditioned down there, so hard body punches can often be effective. Aggression is the best form of defence against tall boxers who are used to fighting the classic circle-and-1-2 style: work out what kind of fight they DON'T want, and give them that!
Love boxing! YEAH!
Subguy95 (0)
10/26/2017 5:55 AMI know usually in boxing the taller opponent has a longer reach and that is seen as a bigger advantage but are there any scenarios in which a shorter boxer can use his height to have an advantage over his opponent with a longer reach?
hookuppercut (26)
10/27/2017 5:30 AM(In reply to this)
There are several things the shorter guy has to do to get inside a taller opponent: 1) Cut off the ring with good foot movement; 2) jab to get inside;3) good head movement to slip punches; 4) once inside, hook and uppercut and change angles with good pivoting.