My last fight

bigger stronger lad in the red, hard slog, but I like your movement i.e prefering to box, but also showing the want and desire for infighting when up close - good work...

fitness is key to success, if your 150% fit you'll more often than not compensate for otherwise weakness in your game - boxing ability and/or strength.

good luck.

 

Thanks, Greg! Always nice to see these, and I agree that your are progressing. Your movement is good, you work well behind the jab and your head movement has improved as well. Just a couple of pointers:

1. Your right is quite looped. You should throw it tighter and throw more straight rights down the pipe.

2. Your left is held low. I used to hold my left low as well, felt it improved both my jab and right, but it really isn't necessary. You improve your defence so much and so easily by just keeping that left up.

3. It was a bit scrappy and I felt that you perhaps could be calmer in the clinches. No real damage seemed to be done there anyhow (even though you landed a couple of nice uppercuts to the belly in the last round), so you should probably focus on staying calm and balanced and letting the other guy exert himself. Then there's always the thing to practice on being exact and balanced when stepping in with jabs and combinations so you get the room you need and don't clash wih the other guy, but that's always an ongoing work.

But all in all it looked good, and judging from those two rounds it seemed to me that you edged it.

 

Yeah, as far as I could see you weren't punished for it. It's just a dangerous habit to cultivate,

 

Not watched the video yet GPater, but i'd just like to say you've got a very calculating mind for such a young kid

 

I dont know, just the way you talk about and study things. Its very mature. Im 23 and if i'd just won a fight i wouldnt be studying things and asking for indepth constructive critism. I'd be more like....

"Yeeeeeee..yeyeyeyeyeyea! My dick hard mother ****ers! my dick hard! Come get some...Klitchko sisters, David Gay, where you at? Lennox, Lennox Lewis, im coming for you....Burger king baby!"

 

That damn ring post blocks a lot of the action. I thought he edged you, but it's hard to tell from the angle. You seem more comfortable fighting on the front fight instead of the back foot? Is this an accurate observation? Sometimes that eagerness seems to allow opponents to lead or counter off your aggression. I feel maybe you could get better or more comfortable going backwards or fighting backwards. Just being more relaxed, and maybe feinting a little could give you more success with that jab. I like how you push that jab, and don't just flick it. Perhaps if you were more comfortable going on the back-foot as well you could add some variation to your jab as well. Just a thought.

 

I thought you won, though it was close.

 

Grinnin' from ear to ear, P. Have felt EXACTLY the same. Pigged-out at Howard Johnson -- our BK. Was high as a kite for days.

 

That mentality is a very important asset, though. When I sparr with the young amateurs in the gym, thoughtfulness and ability to adapt is mostly what seem to be missing. I think that I would be quite similar in that age. That's the one advatange I think age have given me; a more dispassionate way of looking at my flaws and shortcomings in order to try and rectify them.

 

You should try the jab to the body more. Seemed like he was open to it. Or a jab to the face, a straight right to the body and then back up with a left hook.