By Fox Doucette If you are truly to enjoy watching the Sweet Science on television, it is not enough to know how the sport is contested. Yes, that will help you to determine who's winning and make some sense out of the judging (more on that later), but if you're watching in a social setting it won't help to make sense out of why some fight night parties draw every straggler … [Read more...]
Boxing 101 (Lesson #3): Advanced Defense and Countering
By Fox Doucette When we left off last week, I talked about how to avoid getting hit and how to hit back. But all of last week's lesson assumed that your actions existed in a vacuum and that your opponent was doing nothing to adjust his strategy on the fly---he just kept coming forward, walking into your brilliant counter-punches until you knocked him out. That may work in … [Read more...]
Boxing 101 (Lesson #2): Defense
There's an old saying in baseball that the two hardest things to do in the sport are hitting the ball...and stopping the other guy from hitting the ball. Boxing suffers no such dichotomy. Beating someone up is so easy a child can do it, as anyone who's ever seen a schoolyard bully knows. Not getting hit? Well, that's a whole different can of worms entirely. You can block, you … [Read more...]
The Jab (Boxing 101 Lesson #1): The Southpaw
(First in a series of articles to help make you a more informed, knowledgeable fight fan...or to give you something to show your wife or girlfriend so she can be one too. Making the world a better place, one fist to the face at a time.) For today's lesson, allow me to begin by quoting Demetrius Andrade on FNF last week: “My fight plan is to jab, jab, jabjab, … [Read more...]