Is The Peek A Boo Style Finished?

High guards are incredibly popular for come forward fighters today. Of course most of them don't have much style to it, but you can see peek-a-boo's being used by guys in almost all classes of competition, Cotto and Abraham use one most of the time.

A guy here in memphis teaches the peek a boo, http://hadleysboxing.com/about-joey.htm

 

Manny Pac seems to use it a bit. He moves his head a lot but hes never been able to perfect the defensive moves associated with it. Rooney is still alive and well and training fighters. I hope someday he gets another great fighter to work with, because the main focus of that style, and what D'Amato always told his fighters, was to be exciting. Rooney's son fights balls to the walls, but he has a long way to go.

 

shame on you

 

Me too, it would require a fighter with top class potential to train like a spartan in the Catskill mountain town with great dedication, it would be superb if they had great attributes & natural ability. Rooney is 55 years old now, fingers crossed, there is still time for him to train another great exciting Heavyweight Champion.

 

I always thought that style was a huge waste of energy and really only fit young fighters for a short time. I am not sure it is such a great loss.

 

Nah it doesnt take that much energy to keep your head moving. Its certainly better than getting hit a lot.

 

I would say that depends on the fighter. For some guys getting hit allot would be the better option that using a lot of head movement.

 

Rooney train enough boxers

 

Getting hit a lot flush isn't good for anyone, but i agree that many come-forward fighters shouldn't use headmovement as part of their defense. For instance, Sam Peter tried to use headmovement in Wlad II, but he didn't have the skills or reflexes to be elusive, to Wlad was still constantly hitting him clean like a fish in a barrel. In cases like that, such a fighter should focus on improving their guard to block punches as they close the distance, fight in a low crouch, or rolling with punches if they have the ability to pull that off, rather than waste time & stamina doing headmovement which serves them no purpose.

 

I would say come forward, low stamina, good chin kind of fighters would be better suited to taking some jabs than they would using a lot of head movement.

 

I found it didn't when I was really young. Then by the time I was early 20's and got back into the gym, it seemed to consume too much energy and there were more "relaxed" ways to avoid getting hit. Also, it seems like some guys who try it get a real repetitive rhythm to their movements and easy to anticipate.

 

I didn't say he was good at it. Abraham uses a Peek-A-Boo.

I also used to box with something more like this style, I liked how well designed for slip n' countering it was, and it is a solid method of making yourself less of a target. But it does use a ton of energy, and if you catch a counter weaving about too much you will get hurt.

Seamus is right about people using a really predictable rhythm with it.

 

in which fight abraham fight like a peek-a-boo fighter ?

 

In pretty much every one i see him in he's walking a guy down with both hands up high and squared... He drops his hands when he starts slugging or gets tired but generally that's his base look every time he goes out.