just to let you know, during a fight, you cannot be in a "perfect" stance 24/7. Your hands are not always going to be up etc. The picture of myself your using your analogies on, the exact moment of that picture taken, is when I did a lunge fwd feint. My right shin was injured 1 week prior to this fight. Im more of a kick, knee, elbow kinda guy over punching, however I was working my boxing alot building up to this fight, and due to my shin being injured, I was forced to rely on my boxing heavily in this fight, which I did, as a result I ended up winning this fight due to my boxing.
To further my point, here are some pictures of saenchai fighting and training, and as you can see, his hands are not in "optimal" position. Please elaborate on how Saenchai needs to fix his technique. Point being, its not a perfect science.