BoxRec

Caractacus wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 15:42 I remember reading somewhere thats someone stole Ken Norton's shoes in the dressing room just before his fight with George Foreman
in Caracus Venuezeula. The shoes the finally got in a jiff didn't fit Ken Norton too well either from what I remember.
(how many people in Venuzeula would have had his shoe size ?)

Kalan wrote: ↑19 Apr 2018, 20:02 Sibson bounced around like crazy... And too many feints... I would settle him down, stop the bouncing, get him to step smoother, and be more selective with his punches... You look like you're bouncing when you not if you step in an out quickly and precisely, but you look smooth.. When you bounce you look like a jumping bean.. Mayweather, Lomachenko, and Mikey step well, never giving any opponent any rhythm to work off of.. You can't time them.. Sanchez was another.

Hagler punched the Hell out of Sibson because Sibson was throwing when he didn't have a target... He often missed badly, leaving himself open.. You can't slip every punch and you shouldn't try... You have to block or parry some and slip, duck, or roll some... You learn which ones doing the mitts... He needed a lot more sparring... But 8 to 12 rounds of sparring does you no good if you're not getting good direction from your corner. You'll make the same mistakes over and over til they're so deeply ingrained you can't unlearn them.

Then he needed better range on his jab and straight right.. It's a matter of throwing a smooth effortless punch and making contact, not throwing hard.. Like in basketball you only take high percentage shots.. You don't gun away and hit 20% of your field-goals. If you're landing 50% you're doing well.. You need to outscore the guys you can't KO.

Then he needed better balance. Do handstands, one legged sprints forwards and backwards, use ladder stepping routines, but you need fantastic balance so it's an everyday item.

Defense is the thing he needed to work on overtime, and everyday.. You can box for 20 or 30 years if you can defend well.. You'll be done quickly if you're getting nailed.. The basic description of Boxing is the art of self defense.. It doesn't matter if you score KO's.. Nobody paid to see May-Pac because they knocked anybody out lately.