How to deal with peek a boo?

It really depends on how the opponent is built. If you really want to control them you need to go forward but keep your distance at the same time. Keep power jabbing and slowly walk towards them. If they get close as well, clinch and push them back. I’d recommend getting a little handsy as well, press your lead hand on their forehead to keep them at bay. Peek a boo really isn’t that great of a style unless you’re a genetic freak.

 

If you’re standing right - Let him come to you he’ll oblige, don’t offer anything real he won’t be able to light you up off your jab if you’re alert.
Try to remember you don’t need to step into every jab he’ll do that for you when you do decide to hit him with it so stay mobile.
That sort of fighter has to react to everything his heads right there in that sort of stance, see where he puts his head after you’re jabbing and some resets, when you’re sure drop a right.
Take advantage of the square way he’s standing at close quarters with your shoulder in his chest move him back, bang him up, stay close.
When he tries clinching don’t stop trying to hurt him with any free hand watch what Gene Fullmer does inside or trapped in a clinch.
Wrestle him around the ring, put your forearm under his chin and push up, you’ll break his balance with how he has his hips one way or another.
if he comes loose, don’t waste any time get your head on a shoulder work him good with both hands high or low with the same idea as before.
If he puts his hands high on the inside and leans forward take the liver or the uppercut with either hand.

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I always thought Jose Torres wasn’t overly physically impressive and he did good enough with the style.

 

Its going to be difficult if they are athletic or fast but its a very energetically expensive style meaning they can tire out quick

Most important thing for countering them is to catch onto their rhythm and trying to time them if you are the longer fighter and I know it sounds weird, but to get advantageous head position

 

If you have a definitive height and reach advantage, look at how Lewis had Tua suck on his left jab and peppered his body. Also look how he kept clinching and holding Tyson off to slow his waning momentum. Keep moving around the ring but stay in the centre, don't turn to the ropes or corners, or else you'd end up like Marvis Frazier and Frank Bruno.

 

Based upon numerous Classic versus threads, the following strategies have been found effective against Peekaboo:

- Being a Swedish playboy who gets underestimated
- Having a close relative die shortly before the fight
- Not being afraid
- Taking steroids
- Headbutts
- Being big

Boxing technique, since it is rarely discussed in this context, is likely irrelevant.

 

Amateurs or pros is an important distinction. Some effective things can get you out of an amateurs really quickly.

 

Depending on level of experience, I’d start with simple combos or single punches to the head, then bend the knees and blast the body.

Say a 1-2 to the head (which will hit gloves if he’s peek-a-booing you) then drop levels and double hook to the body. Work up and down. He’s going to have to make some choices eventually about what he wants to guard most, which gives you opportunities —- if he begins to drop the hands a bit after the body blistering, attack the head; if he keeps the guard high, work the body. Take what he gives you.

As you get more adept (and deft), you learn little tricks like punching one of his gloves out of the way (as a southpaw myself, for instance, I could tap his left glove down and jab over it; or slide to my left (his right) at like a 45 degree angle (so forward and to the left) and do the same thing with my jab hand to clear an opening for my left.

As you evolve, you might put your hands on him (glove to glove) and push his guard out of the way. Pernell Whitaker and Larry Holmes are two good examples.

You get really good and you’ll do some Joe Louis stuff — hook to his left elbow, right uppercut straight up the path left by his left arm getting displaced — but that’s advanced degree curriculum.

 

You should act all surprised and then peek-a-boo them back.

Tradition.

 

I remember boxing somebody who fought with that style. Watch out for their elbows..... you try to touch his body with a hook (or something) and your face runs in to his elbows.

 

Also, I remember throwing something at him and my bicep crashes into his elbow.

That sheet leaves knots.

 

I was thinking about it.... Who used the peek a boo defense: was it Joe Fraizer or Marlon Starling, or both?

 

Mike Tyson, Jose Torres and Floyd Patterson are the most famous users the “Peek a boo” style originated from Cus D’mato all three of those champs were trained by him and he began the style after watching Maxie Rosenbloom or Beau Jack? I forget which one. Starling was a Futch fighter and so was Frazier but Frazier was more one of Yank Durham’s fighters I think.