How Do You Feel About "Stiff-Arming"?

No, I'm just responding to the topic alone, what fight, and what happened?

Edit: Nevermind, you did say OP...duh, thanks.

 

Yeah, that was a stiff arm as I know it. My personal definition (that I just made up..lol) is to hold the arm straight out in order to stymie or thwart your opponent's offensive effectiveness or activity. As to the swiftness in which he took a point, I actually wish they would all do so but, as compared to "normal" reffing, far too soon. Sorry fellas, don't like stiff arming at all, I believe boxing would look more like jousting if it were legal, it's not easy to get around at all, so it would most definitely be seen a lot.

 

Well if thats your opinion then cool, just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same thing.

Ive just never seen it as a problem, at least when used to that degree. Golovkin does it, never seen him in a boring fight. Lots of people do it, to a degree or another... Harvey Dock warning GGG in the Stevens fight I thought was fine. But nothing in the Geale fight looked off or illegal to me. Thres billions of equivalent examples, just using GGG in this case because I am fairly certain most posters (plus myself :conf) have the reference relatively fresh in their mind.

I think it becomes too subjective. Where do you cross the line from a "legal" jab to a stiff arm?

To me its not a big deal. If you keep your arm too stiff it can be batted away and you slide a shot under the opponents glove. We see fighters "fencing" with their jab hands all the time. It can be dangerous if overused because once your past the outstretched glove the stiff armer is in a bad position.

 

Oscar did it sometimes in his fights some fighters know how use it without the ref saying anything.

 

I don't like it at all, but to echo Robney's thoughts, it aggravates me a whole lot less than other fouling (low blows, rabbit punches, headbutts, kidney/back punches, hitting during a clinch, knees, tackles, etc).

I view the "stiff arm" similar to the "push off (think Foreman)." They are fouls, and weak, but at the same time if a ref is going to give a dirty fighter some cushion before deducting a point, these would be the two types of "fouls" to do it with as opposed to the others I listed above.

The argument for stiff arming would be: who is to say what is the natural position to hold ones' arms at? To which my response would be: who is to say that low blows should not be scored as a clean connect? / Rules are rules.

 

I have no issue with it unless the opponent's back is on the ropes and his head is being pushed back to make way for a punch with the other hand. That's basically the same as holding an opponent behind the head and hitting him.

 

It's in the same league as pushing off and holding basically. If you do it excessively, you may get warned or deducted a point, but it isn't a big deal if you do it here and there.

 

I don't have a problem with it at all. It's just using the advantage of a long reach. Nothing malicious or harmful about it.

 

Throw a quick jab out, catch your glove on his and pull him toward you, then unload a right cross while his weight is comin at you. Square up behind a slightly southpaw peek-a-boo, bob the head under and outside then uppercut into his armpit.

 

:huh Is it?

I see a lot of fighters do it, from Dirrell to Rigo.