Peek-A-Boo the Ultimate Style for Short HW?

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  1. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Mike Tyson Training HL:
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    For any HW 6'0 and under, it seems to me that Tyson's style is the only style that would allow them any chance of success at HW or even CW. Utilize head movement, footwork to get in and dash off combos on the inside and force the taller HW to clinch. Then repeat.
     
  2. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    David Tua didn't need no peekaboo.

    Yes, later on he had less succes.
    That had more to do with him not training properly, going into a shell after getting hurt often, and relying on 1 shot power to do the trick.

    Also Peekaboo is pretty weak to uppercuts, Tyson had a monster chin but could still break.
    Most guys don't have a 20 inch neck in their prime and won't take the uppercuts Mike could absorb.
     
  3. tezel8764

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  4. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Nice one Tezel.:good

    Fair point but I think Tyson's overall movement made it hard to time an uppercut. By the time you're set to throw, he's on top of you with fast combinations.
     
  5. MrMagic

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    Mike Tyson was such an amazing athlete, there will probably never be anyone like him.

    He must've worked incredibly hard.
     
  6. dealt_with

    dealt_with Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    What fighters throw good uppercuts anyway? The uppercut/peekaboo thing is just one of those boxing myths that doesn't happen in actuality, the same as the southpaw/right hand nonsense. The only downside to peekaboo is that it requires a lot of energy, you need to be in supreme condition to use it throughout a whole fight.
     
  7. Sugar Nick

    Sugar Nick He's A Good Boy Full Member

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    That's not the only style you idiot! David Tua was 5'10 and fights nothing like Tyson,Sherman Williams doesn't either.

    You can be any size and accomplish anything if you have the skill.
     
  8. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    From Google:

    Daily Regime (7 days a week):
    5am: get up and go for a 3 mile jog
    6am: come back home shower and go back to bed (great workout for those huge legs of his)
    10am wake up: eat oatmeal
    12pm: do ring work (10 rounds of sparring)
    2pm: have another meal (steak and pasta with fruit juice drink)
    3pm: more ring work and 60 mins on the exercise bike (again working those huge legs for endurance)
    5pm: 2000 sit-ups; 500-800 dips; 500 press-ups; 500 shrugs with a 30kg barbell and 10 mins of neck exercises
    7pm: steak and pasta meal again with fruit juice (orange i think it was)
    8pm: another 30 minutes on the exercise bike
    then watch TV and then go to bed.

    Before jogging in the morning he did a lot of stretching followed by 10 jumps onto boxes and 10 bursts of sprints, then he went jogging.
    At 12pm he sparred.
    At 3pm he did focus mitt work or heavy bag work inside the ring. He warmed up for all ring work with light exercises such as skipping or shadow boxing or speed ball.
    At 5pm Tyson did 10 quick circuits, each circuit consisting of: 200 sit-ups, then 25-40 dips, then 50 press-ups, then 25-40 dips, then 50 shrugs, followed by 10 mins of neck work on the floor. What an animal!

    Tyson said that the shrugs "built his shoulders up" to help unleash punches with his short arms whilst at the same time building endurance in the neck. It should be noted though that Tyson couldn't do any more than 50 sit-ups a day and 50 press-ups a day when he was 13, but gradually increasing the reps each week got him to a higher level over many years, so that he was doing 2000 sit-ups inside 2 hours every day by the time he was 20!

    Mike told Ian Durke (Sky commentator) his above workout regime when he visited England to watch a Frank Bruno fight in March 1987. Durke told Mike that Bruno trained like a bodybuilder and asked Mike about this, but Mike said that floor exercises and natural exercises work better. Mike explained that his punch-power comes from nothing more than heavy bag work "works your strength through the hips" he said, despite doing shrugs with a barbell he said that lifting weights has about as much resemblance to punching as "cheesecake" (contradicting himself though due to doing shrugs).
     
  9. dyna

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    Mike Tyson is an exception when it comes to supreme condition in his "prime", so the good uppercuts are probably not even needed against most peekaboo users.

    Dwight Muhammad Qawi at 5'6 was also a monster without peekaboo
     
  10. dealt_with

    dealt_with Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I'm pretty sure this has been confirmed as fake before.
     
  11. RJJFan

    RJJFan Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Thats not the only style that I said works for short HW, IDIOT. It just SEEMS that way for me.
     
  12. Vidic

    Vidic Rest in Peace Manny Full Member

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    If you string it together with his other talents

    PERPETUAL MOTION
    combination punching
    Good jab

    A simple peak a boo style won't be that helpful in itself, there are many who have tried solar and not been successful

    But the way Tyson did it, yes that was practically perfected for fighting bigger men
     
  13. MrMagic

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    People need to remember, Mike Tyson effectively outjabbed Tony Tucker.

    He was not this one trick pony people think he was.
     
  14. tezel8764

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    The uppercut was one of the few weaknesses of the Peak-A-Boo style.

    Douglas used it to finish Mike, Lewis used it frequently to keep Mike off him and here Tucker stuns Mike with an uppercut:

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    It one of reasons why I find it hard for Wladimir Klitschko to beat Mike, he has a weak inside game. :D

    True, Tucker was a big man as well and Mike out-jabbed him.
     
  15. Vidic

    Vidic Rest in Peace Manny Full Member

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    Every style is vulnerable in some manner or other

    Lennox did stop the shell of Tyson in his tracks with an uppercut in the first round of their fight that really seemed to affect him mentally

    Ruddock tried similar with little success