The best technique between Louis, Lewis, Wlad and Vitaly?

But a guard has disadvantages too.
There is always an opening.
And staying in a guard could force you to see less, and do worse at anticipating attacks. Punches are a lot more predictable out of a guard too.

When Wlad is waving his arms in your face, or moving his hands all over the place it's really hard to anticipate the direction of the attack.

Fighters who are more guard oriented could come out of the same gym as someone who barely uses a passive guard. It goes to show how stylistic it is, rather than how correct it is.

 

lol .. Nobody is going to buy into your Hogworths that Wlad had a high guard and used traditional defensive methods of slipping and parrying to evade punches. Stop making a fool out of yourself.

Wach and Leapi were the only guys he didn't clinch to death and they wouldn't be good enough to be considered viable opponents for a guy like Deontay Wilder

I could be here all day running through it , so ill just give you one example of why his defence wasn't up to scratch.

When he fought Jennings in America his illegal holding wasn't tolerated and it resulted in him getting a point deducted. When he realised he couldn't hold any more he resorted to running away. Against a routine ordinary challenger any so called 'ATG' would breeze past like a Sunday stroll through the park way.

Fact his he made a dogs dinner out of the majority of his performances during his championship run.

If you got proof to the contrary , by all means go ahead and show me.

 

Byrd does employ the parry several times in those clips...I'll make a gif. lol

 

Doza , you have have Chaggy as well. But thats only cos the guy fought like a moron trying to out box Wlad from far out which basically handed Wlad the victory up on a platter.

 

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So...will Bokaj admit to being wrong, or will we get an absurd explanation as to how that isn't a parry? Or better yet, he gave his observation and will just request to move on.

 

Byrd was a parry master.
That's why the palms of his hands are often facing the opponent with both arms out.

 

That's a parry my friend.

 

post #65 address it. And it's Wlad in that video. You picked a fight where Byrd was completely outclassed and still examples of text book parry.

 

Utilizing his glove to catch and misdirect his opponent's punches is a parry. And beyond that, there are text book examples in that highlight of him knocking Wlad's punches down.

 

Here Byrd used an outside parry for the body jab, and parrys the smoke screen paw jabs.
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Maybe post a clip showing that?