How do you defend against wild attack

What I usually do if a guy wildly attacks is keep a really tight guard and chin down and try to punch in between his shots

 

-- He's asking for experience on a boxing forum, is this not an indication that he's inexperienced?

Try throw a wide angled hook at someone with their shoulder against your chest and see how much leverage you can actually get. It's not easy to hit someone with wide angled punches if they're close in, in fact, it's why most 'defensive geniuses' are well known for their in close fighting skills )Hopkins, Toney, Floyd, Winky( rather than their distance fighting skills.

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Well obviously from what you've written, I'd point that question back at you - you seemingly seem to think it's easy to hit someone if they're close in on your chest, this leads me to believe you've never been in a boxing fight.

 

Fight a boxer, box a fighter. You can box on the inside as well as on the outside. Both are an option, but they require a different skill set.

 

Keep the punches straight and quick, go on the front foot but use plenty of lateral movement, going back is a straight line in no good agaisnt these type of guys.

If your knew try not to get overwhelmed, keep you eyes open and look for openings, dont just get into a swinging match with him as you dont learn anything from it and proved nothing.

 

jab his face in.

 

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In addition to that, it's annoying fighting them too.


In general, i think it's lame to go hard on someone when you have much more experience/skill, but when they put everything behind their swings, i just can't help countering with hard shots...... to keep them off and teach them a lesson. But of course when you hit them and something happens it's your fault. :-(



By the way, one thing that works really well is backing off - not straight - but turning about 90 degrees. It throws off their forward-based swinging and you can open up really nice with a 1-2 after/when stopping their attack.

 

I agree with most of this. I was actually talking to a guy who has a ton of experience-went to the Olympic Trials, won the PAL, and has over 160 fights now and he said even now he doesn't like fighting guys who are inexperienced because they're just wild and hard to figure out.

 

i like fighting people like that because i hate counter punchers.....

 

Watch him vs De La Hoya in that last fight, when pressed against the rope landing repetitive right hands, using his shoulder to block De La Hoya and swivelling to land his right hand - almost put him down with it.

 

Cool Thanks. I just dug up a video of mayweather explaining a few pocket techniques, maybe the poster might get something out of this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_l7P5T8qs&feature=related

 

They have unpredictable rythms which I find annoying. Even the staggered timings are difficult to defend against when you can see the punch coming miles away. Once you are trained it just seems impossible to flick a switch and use that on an experienced fighter. Itd be nice if you could though... deliberate fluking.

 

Floyd is a master in the pocket, very underrated in my view and he catches a lot of shots that people think are hitting him. In the pocket, what he's doing is exactly what I tried to explain above.

Give them your lead shoulder, wait for their move, if their weight comes onto you, swivel away and take them off balance and land your right.

If their weight starts pulling back, push and pivot forward and throw the uppercut.

Each of those punches set you up to throw a good combination but I've always been cautious, I don't like throwing more than three to four punches at any stage, you maxmise the chances of being caught if you do.