Need to know why ..?

Often it is a mixture of bad habits and tiredness. Although some tall fighters keep their hands lower to protect their body and prefer to move their head.

 

They do it out of habit mainly, it keeps your arms loose. I wouldn't recommend doing the same.

 

In Briggs scenario, I think its because he was tired as hell and getting the **** beat out of him.

In other fights, I've seen boxers take a step back, drop his hands momentarily (usually in the later rounds), and then bring them back up and resume his attack. I think they do it so that they can give their shoulders a little bit of rest.

 

Dropping your hands can be used as a tactic in bouts... you may draw a lead from your opponent which you can counter....

 

thats the main reason you see it among top fighters, for the push overs, its just because they have bad technique

 

yes, quick handed fighters use it to tempt slower guys to lead and open themselves to a counter.

Go watch some roy jones our prince nasssim tape

 

Shooting the jab from the waist if you're fast enough makes it tougher to see since it's outside of their field of vision, and protects your body. If you can use your shoulder, head movement, or your right hand to parry well enough, then it's a decent tactic to be able to pull off.

 

Conditioning. Lack of conditioning doesn't allow you to do what you need to do.

Briggs was never a "speed" or "surprise" guy so he has never had any reason to keep his hands low. He was just tired.

 

Briggs kept his hands low because his tactic worked against lesser opponents.

Unfortunately, the 35 lbs outside of his prime, combined with his inability to react quickly enough, and obviously his opposition didn't allow him to use the style he was trying to emulate effectively.

He should have made an adjustement, but even then the result would have been the same. He wasn't in any condition to fight at that level.

 

Briggs has done that his whole career, especially his later body builder style fighting. It's down to conditioning i think but also his rugged style of fightng i guess.

Vitali would be keeping his hands low to lure briggs in, his his opponant the idea he is reachable then counter them. Sometimes in sparring poor technique can be a mutual agreement, no one would recommend you train like that.

 

I have a friend who does that. If you do it right you can still block with your shoulder. And it also sets up different angles to bring your jab from. I do it sometimes just to throw people off in sparring. But not often.

 

Amatures do 3 rounds pro's can go 12 thats why! there is no need to have a gaurd if your out of range and pro's are great at reserving energy