From: (BillMahoney68)
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Date: 05 Nov 2004 02:06:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Boxing for the man on the street (BKB)
Message-ID: 20041104210650.00405.00000109@mb-m17.aol.com

>m: lklaw...@my-deja.com  (Kirk Lawson)

As a boxing-wrestling historian, i think youd be interested in the new trend in
MMA.
MMA boxing is moving away from modern western boxing.
Largely due to smaller gloves sizes.

Check out randy counture, Tito ortiz, and the recent fight between silva and
rampage.

Rampage uses a stance where he doesnt pat punches, not even jabs.He keeps his
elbows up real high and his head inside his arms as if in a cage.
He avoids all silvas punches, til he gases and gets hurt bad.

In sparring with VT gloves only i )over years) slowely adopted this stance.In a
case or parelel evolution many of us in the new evolving sport did as well.

Of course I am more open to a body punch, but in small gloves/no gloves fist
fights rarely last long enough for body blows to factor in, and heasd shots are
so damaging, throwing to the body is just too risky to try much.

Gi

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