The reason boxers drop their hands

Watt made a lot of outlandish, unfounded, contradictory statements that night.

 

Why?

Froch gets hit a lot, that is clear. The reason for that is he drops his hands, and does not have the reactions to compensate for it.

 

I'm sure Watt said that Pac had started boxing at '7 pounds 8'

Which is quite an achievement to come from that from low to beat the man at 140.

 

Why would Watt feel daft for criticising Froch about his hands? Taylor almost KO'd him!

Surely he'd feel vindicated if nothing else?

 

Ricky was going in with his hands low,head up.Hows that reducing the target he would have been better doing an Arthur Abraham and getting the mufflers on and elbows in.

Pac would jab and Rickys head would move out of the way seconds after connection.

Froch is the same, slow reactions like that they need to have their guards up.

 

And Watt will still critcise Froch. Becaue Carl is a hard hitter with a decent chin but he does have a crap defence. Yeah a former world champion with sweet job on sky feels like a prized twat because a middle aged postman doesn't like him.

And it started at Pacmans hip so Ricky didn't see it? Does he not have eyes that works like everybody elses then? Hatton lost to the best fighter and coach on planet.

 

Yeah you could have but Mayweather is an atg and his natural attributes along with a shell defence allow him to get away with it.

 

Mayweather simply uses a different style of defence. That Philly Shell is great if you have the reflexes to pull it off, and if you watch carefully all angles are covered at the times that matter. His chin is covered by his shoulder, his ribs are covered by his elbows and his chest is covered by his forearms. However, often when he's on the ropes he'll use a conventional defence and keep his arms high.

Froch seems to keep his arms down and have no reflexes, and is easily hit. There is definitely room for criticism. It probably helps his jab to have the hand low, its a double edged sword but when you get put on your ass by Taylor and hit on a regular basis I don't think he's exempt from critcism for keeping his hands low.

 

Fair enough point taken. I was a bit of out line there.

 

there is no definitive method to defence

but keeping your hands low makes it easier to slip punches and come back with counter shots also it stops cuts happening as holding gloves in front of your face means when the gloves get hit your heel of your hand goes stright through your skin happened to me once.

 

Speaking of commentatry gaffes I couldn't help but laugh when the camera panned at Hatton's family after the knockout and Darke said "And there's Hatton's father Jennifer". :rofl