what is the best style of defense and blocking shots

Ain't so many guys on there so it'll take a little longer, but you'll get better advice outta it - hopefully:good

 

Your best defence is your height and using your height to fight tall and stay out of range. So go look at some tall fighters like alex arguello and learn they style. You don't want to be bobing and weaving under a guy who is 5'5.

 

yes I like when he laid out Kevin Rooney (mike tyson's trainer) LOL
-I would watch the Alexis Arguello vs Ray Mancini fight to get a good idea of how to really use your height. Notice the combos, notice the defense, nothing TOO fancy, but he is able to wear guys down and mix in a nice set of liver shots to weaken guys. As a tall guy the liver shot is the best shot you can do, it is like the money shot for tall thin guys. Ray Boom Boom Mancini was a really good fighter he was a lightweight with a middleweight's upperbody.

I am not going to lie though, I think boxing is a small man's sport and favours smaller compact boxers followed by tall thin wiry guys. There are plenty of great tall boxers. You can't teach tall, you can't grow taller, etc. But I feel 2 equally trained boxers, the advantage will be to the shorter guy. A shorter guy can duck under punches, a tall guy can't without giving away his only advantages.
-If you are short, your trainer will tell you make yourself small and spring up at the last moment with your weigh behind your punch
-If you are tall, your trainer will tell you fight tall. But if your opponent is very skilled or slick fighting tall won't work, in fact it HURTS. You have to get down low on his level like ODL did to whitaker.
-Taller you are the more inefficient your body is. Boxing is also a stamina contest. Tall bodies mean longer distance for the blood to pump to get to the same parts of the body. Just look at most olympic runners for long distances, even the mile runners are mostly short thin guys from kenya averaging small height like 5'6-5'7.
-Harder to use the great subtleties of boxing. If you are tall, timing, feinting, countering, all become more difficult. Often in boxing we rely on split second reactions and being taller means it takes just a tiny wee beat longer to do everything. Which is why tall guys usually have slower everything. A tall guy throws a jab you can wait for it to go by you and then nail the guy with a counter. You can try to time the shots better. Short guy throws a jab its not going to go by you because he isn't close enough to land, but he is going to follow it with all kinds of other hooks and uppercuts. Tall guy feints he risk being countered over a feint. Despite Ali having the fastest hands, and being able to take 1 large step backwards, it was not enough to evade Frazier who ducked under his punches and countered by timing his jabs and leaping forward.
-Unskilled short guy you can lean and crush him on the inside. Highly skilled short guy rams his head into your sternum which starts to tire you out after he does it for the 100th time in round 6. You will not be able to lean on him that way, you can at best cuff him behind the head which you can be penalized for. Normally tall guy can wrap his hands around small guy and crush him with his upper body. Skilled small guy uses his head, literally, rams it into your sternum and sticks his hands through your arms and uses his entire body weight to pull down the TALLER guy. O yes and that sternum ramming also pushes you off balance preventing you from just nailing him in the head with a vicious uppercut
-Luckily for you 99% of small guys can't successfully perform even just 2 of these. Unless you get up to 20-30 pro fights you probably never have to worry about this because I don't see many guys who can fight like this even at the pro level today.

 

Yeah, that guy with Kinetic in his name knows his stuff. Gave me a really good reply on training.