I often hear commentators and pundits talk about boxers being great at setting traps. When I hear that I think of the old Lee Wylie video where he explains how rigondeaux leads his opponents on a certain rhythm just to then punch in between the beats. What other traps are there that you know of? (Video would be amazing, too)
The simplest and most straightforward trap is throwing a convincing feint to provoke a counter, then countering that counter.
Here's a basic one: jab to the body to the point it becomes a rhythm, then feint the jab and transition to a left hook upstairs. Mayweather Jr was brilliant at this specific one, especially against Corrales. Floyd being Floyd, he would then use the threat of the hook as a feint and land right hands instead. Great fighters like Floyd, Pac etc usually set one trap then build more traps off of it as the bout goes on.
Another basic one you can do with positioning is to deliberately move to your opponents power hand for a time to get them to throw it, then suddenly change your movement pattern away from the power hand and work counters and hooks from that side.
Fury basically spent the entire Whyte fight not throwing an uppercut and that eventually Whyte would plod into him then he'd throw it and that's what happened. To be fair Whyte was beaten before he even got in that ring. Fury Usyk had some real class gamesmanship by the 2nd bout the boxing was kind of irrelevent they had each other worked out very well and it came down to small physical differences with two men who are physical outliers.
You could argue that wilder was trying to set a trap with his body work in the opening rounds of fury wilder 3. couldn’t take advantage
On the broadcast of Floyd Ghost Paulie was doing color commentating and during the live broadcast Paulie had the editors put together a Floyd montage. It was just Floyd throwing right hands and after each right hand he did something different (left hook, dip out to right, jab, fall backward straight, dip out to left, double right hand, etc.) which demonstrated how hard it was to counter Floyd because he was steps ahead of you setting additional traps
Foreman throwing a number of big left hooks at the start of the 10th round against Moorer in order to straighten him up and stop him moving to his right. Foreman then loads up on the right hand after he gets Moorer to stand in front of him. George was a cunning old *******.