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When people say "jab is the most important punch" it's because jab is a distance/timing thing So if a guy has a better jab, that's cool you don't have to match it. You wanna just do to overcome that timing by coming in and taking fire, keeping them guessing... but yeah, practicing your own jab...

Another thing to concentrate on noticing is if someone "prefers" a certain reaction. Me for instance, I happen to like ducking and if you spar with me you'll see me start to duck when you throw a variety of moves. You could use that to set something up. Freddie Roach said this about Mayweather...

This. There's no substitute for experience (and general intelligence - that's why Mayweather says boxing is all about brains and not brawn). The more you fight/spar, the calmer you can remain and the more experience you get observing people. In the end doing safe moves IE moves that are hard...

so in the end striking (whether in kicking or punching range) really depends on how good you are at detecting the other guy's patterns. How good are you at feinting and getting a reaction out of the other guy, and how good he is at feinting and getting a reaction out of you Other than...

SpineBreaker's response is the truth Unless you like to rush in and go balls out swinging for the fences (which actually isn't a bad strategy if you time it right! Dan Henderson would approve) there's no such thing as ranges. It's all about feinting and reacting at a certain skill level: - if...

Since Aldo, along with the other mentioned guys are just so goddamn talented and experienced, I just want to point out that for your personal training purposes you'd probably be better off practicing your timing to stick a jab in the face of someone who tries to rush you, and then stepping...

yeah i mean dude - boxing has been the means for unarmed self defense (you're not always going to have time to pull out mace/tazer/knife) on the street in America/Europe/everywhere outside of Asia for the last couple of hundred years. psh.

haha oh wow, those were some mean intentions!

+1 totally. He didn't eat the kick, he saw it and braced to put himself in a position to counter

Cung Le's KO was a good example of how reach isn't actually that big of a deal b/c striking is all about timing. So basically if your timing is good and you step in once the opponent has already committed to something, all you need to do is step in a bit. Another way reach gets negated is if...

Jabbing to the body is a strategic move. You're doing it to mix it up between head and body. Striking at the higher levels is all about trying to predict each other. Every guy at the top level already has a lifetime's worth of training and is an expert. It comes down to figuring out what the...

O another revelation I had is that if you have good evasive defense, like you already use a lot of head movement and timing to defend punches - you can use that to purposely get hit and land a BETTER shot. There are TONS of opportunities to do that. Probably the most famous one is rolling with...

I used to have a very cautious style and it's costed me in both in offense and defense. Offensively since I've got enough speed and timing to get the initiative, but I'd always just throw one pot shot. That in turn affected defense - if you don't hit people enough to discourage them they'll just...

Man JDS displayed picture perfect boxer-puncher strategy along with some stick and move (the style adapted to MMA purposes I suppose). - do a lot of feints to gauge the opponent's reaction - mix it up with jabs to the head and body to keep the opponent guessing whether you are attacking high...

Hammer him in the body - you can lean back with your head, but you can't move your body. I doubt he can block body shots the way Mayweather does.

Morales looks a bit flabby at 140, doesn't he? His arms are about the same size as they were at flyweight but the waistline is bigger. On the other hand look how buff JMM (who is three years older than El Terrible) got in his last fight with Pacman. His arms and back were totally ripped...

Dude Aldo's TD defense is like some boxing footwork! After using his beastly reflexes to secure an underhook he pivots to negate the angle of the takedown. Pretty awesome/sick stuff... pivoting in TD defense

Yah I love it. If a guy catches him off guard he circles back and away like Machida does If he's in counter mode he uses head movement and stays in the pocket If he's in offense mode he explodes forward a la prime CroCop style.

haha!

People also defend this by jamming you so you can't turn them Another important thing to remember when turning is to keep your head down - a lot of times both guys turn at the same time to hit each other