Boxing 101: Why fighters look the way they look.

OK, here is the first lesson. It will help you with watching boxing.

If you fight a rubbish fighter you will probably look better than when in against a decent one. You will be able to throw combos.

This can be very confusing for some as they see a guy throwing combos against one fighter, and against the next it is like they have disappeared! It can be scary and confusing.

But don't worry. Jazzo is your friend and here to help you make sense of the madness.

Try this:

Throw combos on a heavy bag. It is easy! Your combos fly and you look like Tyson in there. np.

OK, now go into the ring and do the same.

You don't look as good! What the hell happened? Should you go to the doctor or a phycologist? Many will, but don't do it. This is natural!

Boxers do better against bums than they do against good fighters because better fighters don't want you to hit them. OK, neither does the bum, but here is the difference.

The good fighter has the skills to out-do you and make you look as if you can't throw. You can and will against the heavy bag, but the heavy bag does not try to get out of the way.

Skills make a difference.

So, the next time you see a guy look good against a bum and then not good against a decent fighter, you will not be scared.

 

This is not for you , Arran.

I will see you in the lounge.

Bye for now.

 

It is all I plan to do.

 

If you study more you will pass.

Do you have any questions?

I should have asked.

Sorry.

You may ask.

 

Throw a punch. Just 1.

Now, put rope around the punching arm.

Now, try to throw the punch.

You cannot do it.

The rope stops you.

This is a more extreme version of what happens in the ring.

 

Yes, that is perhaps true. It was not important.

You will look like Shannon The Cannon Briggs though.