The Nuances Of Setting A Trap

I just watched Dwight Braxton vs Mathew Saad Muhammed I and noticed a superb trap set by Braxton.

In the early goings Braxton works with a consistent jab to the body of Muhammed, because of this MSM slowly starts to bring his left hand down to protect his body from the jabs, and the jabs to the head are picked off by his right glove. Braxton isnt throwing many right hands and is really using his left hand to occupy MSM's left hand. As MSM gets more relaxed Braxton brings in an overhand right that stuns MSM, as he cant see them coming due to Braton being shorter and MSm tucking his left shoulder over his chin. Off of this right hand Qawi gets inside and lands his combinations and when MSM recovers Qawi goes back to jabbing again, looking to repeat the process and he does sucessfully.

Cant find a video of it though.

 

You don't seem to see this sort of thing in fights so much now whether fighters are less schooled I am not sure.

 

punchy, a lot of it is noticing it. It happens in most fights, it just might not jump out and bite you, next time you watch a fight look for stuff like this. You will be surprised.

 

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The best fighters can still do this.

 

Great, great fighter, and i find it hard to believe some don't think so personally.

 

This isnt my video but i was thinking of making one with pacquiao's 'boxing skills'. Rounds 1-4 of pacquiao-cotto should provide more than enough material. Pacquiao is setting traps like crazy, so much so that cotto simply doesnt know where to defend from.

'I Just couldnt defend my self'

Miguel Cotto - Post Fight Interview

 

One that sticks out in my mind was Evander Holyfield vs Buster Douglas. Evander Knew Douglas liked to throw his uppercut from the outside, which is a big no no in boxing. Douglas often tried to time his opponents as they moved in.

Evander picked up on this and used his feint to get Douglas to commit to the shot which in turn left him wide open for Holy to counter with his righthand which dropped Douglas for the count.

Another good example is old George Foreman. Because of his overwhelming lack of speed he almost had to rely completely on setting traps to get close enough to land his big right hand. What he often did was throw half jabs or not extend his jab completely to his opponent to get them to think they were out of his punching range. Once he knew his opponent was close enough he threw a beautiful, but slow, jab, righthand which hurt a lot of opponents.

 

Might be a good idea if you could pull it off. In this regard though, Mayweather>Pacquiao easily.

 

No doubt mayweather is the daddy at the moment.

 

Pac is absolutely brilliant at this these days. Watch how many times he baits Cotto into throwing a jab only to duck under it and land his left behind it. He kind of puts himself right in the spot where Cotto will think he can land his jab, and then Pac knows its coming before it even comes.

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Also, Marciano baited Walcott into throwing that right hand before he knocked him out. He knew that the moment Walcott's back touched the ropes he would take the first shot that presented itself. MArciano fist-pumped the jab to bring out the right and had already thrown his right to counter.

 

Great choice. I don't think anyone is better at setting traps.

 

George Foreman said he spent years perfecting a left jab that went through people, but for the Moorer fight he purposely utilised a soft jab so he wouldn't knock Moorer back too far for a follow up shot ,he also wanted Moorer to be overconfident.
How much credence you give to this is up to you.

 

Yeah - the brawler traps the slickster! And they say Marciano couldn't box.