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

I just looked at the Moore article online, and it's missing some items that are in the hard copy, but he's good. Imaginative at times, but good.

A tight, short hook is a vicious shot inside, if you understand how to maximize leverage. A sweeping hook from further back can be useful if you're fighting a guy who is hurt or slow--it will move his head into the range of your right -and the best right cross is shot out when his chin is in line with your right foot. Straight line, punching through the target -BANG.

 

Go with whichever is more comfortable for you.

I have a skinny wrist and for me, throwing it with the palm facing me is far more comfortable. I had a trainer who used to insist that I throw it the technically correct way with the palm facing the floor, but it felt as though any deviation would see me with a broken wrist, so I wouldn't throw it as hard. There are no psychological barriers for me the other way.

 

perfect example of an overhand right is the one maidana landed on khan. Right???

 

I'm a big fan of the Philadelphia Hopkins Reverse Southern Overhand Left Cross Piledriver, myself. Works every time.

 

hopkins doesnt drink...and if he did he wouldnt drink a cocktail. idiotatsch

 

Bernard Hopkins? The punch has nothing to do with him. It's named after the great Jimmy "Son of McMustache" Hopkins, the most artistic boxer to come out of Philly.

 

You must mean that shot Hagler threw at Mugabi that prompted Leonard to say "hmmmmmm... if he tries that on me...."

I don't recommend that shot. If you have a slow guy hurt, feel free, but try that on a guy who knows what he's doing and you'd pay.

 

I've always trained my guys to move their head with the trajectory of the shot and then bend the knees and dip under the shot in a "u." Bending forward slightly is okay, but not so that you cannot see what's happening in front of you. The opponent's shot should skim their scalp and no more. Making the shot miss by a foot is inefficient. Then come up out of the "u" on the other side of the shot and step to either side to get an angle. That helps you to counter whatever hook that was evaded.

That is the best way -it's efficient and it gets you in position to counter.

However, Dempsey's way leaves less target. Dempsey's way seems vulnerable to uppercuts and perhaps wide hooks to the flanks, but if you do it right, it's hard to land even those.

Dempsey's way has problems though -first of all, you're blind when you bend at the waist. Second of all, you have to be exceptionally agile to do it right. I think that there's a third factor -agile and very aggresive fighters can do it because bending at the waist is done with forward propulsion. The move will increase the force of overhands for example.

Most fighters cannot execute it as well as Dempsey did. We spend too much time watching Dempsey the Hollywood dandy who fought Tunney and forget that in 1919, he was bad to the bone. Forget his power and even his speed -it was his agility that springs out at me.

So, the answer is that most fighters should weave under hooks by bending slightly and at the knees. Only a few have the agility and the style to do what Dempsey preached, and do it well. Most will end up like Marvis.

 

Demonstrating it in person is better, but here goes.

The uppercut is best used in close. That variation is short and comes up from a crouch to maximize leverage and force. The crooked arm isn't moving so much but the body is. Your chin is low, left high, and you spring up from a crouch, land it, and go low. You can follow it up immediately by springing back up and doing it again from the left side. See, you do it on bounces. That rhythm gives it more force and balance.

At the middle range, it should be a counter, at an angle. I'd be looking to see if the guy leans in when he jabs. If he does, may God bless him, because I'm gonna slip the jab (and sometimes bump it up with my left as I dip right) and then come up with a right uppercut kind of under the armpit, followed by a short left hook that is aimed through the guy's head.

See, the right uppercut lifts the guy's head for that short left hook.

Now, as you throw the left hook, you can use that momentum to swing your right foot to the front at the angle (a variation of Fitzsimmon's shift) and come back with a short right to the head, followed by another short left hook. Aim that one for the sternum.

--Land those, and you're going home early.

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Uppercuts thrown straight ahead aren't nearly as forceful. Chavez used to do those chest to chest, but they were tactical only. He was trying to bounce that head up for a short hook.

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An uppercut from the outside is dumb and stupid. Ask Buster Douglas how he lost the title. I used to spar big guys, novices from the weight room upstairs who loved to throw looping hooks and uppercuts from way back. They should have chewed tree sap to strengthen up their mandibles, because maybe then they wouldn't have ended up wearing their jaw as a hat.