From: "Jacob Andersen"
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Subject: Re: Boxing for the man on the street (BKB)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:10:29 +0100
Message-ID: 418bd026$0$32297$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk

"BillMahoney68" <billmahone...@aol.com> wrote in message 
news: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.

Sounds similar to what Rodney King (from SBG South Africa) recommends in his 
crazy monkey style of boxing. It's not really similar to my inner picture of 
bare knuckle boxing where the fighters are pretty erect (right?). Rodney 
recommends a very hunched over position.

> 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.

Some were quick enough to get it out on video :-)

> 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.

/Jacob

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