Straight Right/Overhand Right, Right Cross- the same?

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean its made up. That style of boxing is as technical boxing can get.

 

Stepping back and coming over a punch, like a jab, with a punch of your own IS called a pull counter. Has been called that for 50 years. Thats not made up. It was my best trick with my straight left hand as a teenager. Scored a goodly handful of knockouts with it in my day.

 

How I always thought of it/learned it was like this:

Straight - your typical straight punch from your rear hand.
Overhand - more of a loop/arch to it. Lennox Lewis used it to good affect, look up some of his KOs to see it.
Cross - usually it's done closer to the opponent than the straight. The punch crosses the body more, i.e. the shoulders and legs become more squared up. Southpaws use this most often instead of a rear hook and it's used against southpaws too.

 

Some trainers differentiate the cross and the straight. To others, its two terms that mean the same punch-A straight shot from the rear hand.

 

you're a southpaw?

 

Right, some use them interchangeably. For me (I am a southpaw) I've been taught them as two different punches.

 

This.

 

I can do either, but I am left handed. I box southpaw in most occassions- I change it up only because I can work decently behind a left jab and it changes pace(And helps me get out of the way of big right hands which are, in general, unpleasant).

 

ah, but is it the same as a Philly mayweather pull counter? **** no.

It's a bit like the Italo-Kalambay right hand pull-roll outside slickercutt, you need to learn to differentiate the subtle differences in execution between that and an honest slip and counter right uppercut executed from the outside.

 

spend some time on the floor to ceiling and you will definitely get the jist of the (gun barrel) straight right.