Thread: Is the jab to the body the biggest nuisance punch?

Aside from just taking it or giving up ground, it's a very hard punch to counter.
You can't slip it, you can't roll with it... What can you do with it?

page 24 if t doesn't take you there.
https://archive.org/details/Boxing

Originally Posted by greynotsoold

page 24 if t doesn't take you there.
https://archive.org/details/Boxing

I printed a copy of this following your prior advice a good few weeks back (thank you!).

I really do like the book (particularity, with the order in which the information is given, layer by layer. Very very good book), however I struggle with the idea that blocking with a downward parry (brush-away) is fundamentally sound - plus it just plays in to the opponents hand; He can work off that reaction yet you have gained nothing.

The reason why I'm at logger heads with the punch is because (*back-story alert*) I'm currently looking/ learning about the cause and effect of each defensive manoeuvre in a way that leads me to understand more about being defensively responsible and also trying to get my head around deliberate positioning along with manoeuvring, to set up punches (I'll bring myself along to combination punching further down the road) and for example the one punch I just wouldn't want to draw from my opponent, is the jab to the body - because there is nothing to gain form it.

Keeps me at bay, allows him to reset. Nuisance.

I agree with you about the parry; it can get you into trouble. If you watch the DLH v Ruelas fight, the first knockdown comes after Ruelas reacts to a DLH feinted jab to the body with a sweep of his right hand. Personally I would just ease back, get barely out of range of his jab.
And a jab to the body is a great indicator of distance. If you are a taller fighter, getting low and jabbing to the body will keep a pressing fighter away from you. As you said earlier, you can't slip a jab to the body.

Also not a big fan of the scooping parry defense, maidana nailed broner with his left hook for that reaction.

You can bend your knees with him and take it on the elbow then throw back, you can throw a left hook at the same time while turning off, you can step back and let it fall short, you can jab his left hand just before he throws it to disrupt it (and get a priceless look of confusion), etc. really anything to let him know you're not gonna just stand there and get set up. Don't let him feel comfortable throwing it.

I agree that's not a punch you ever really want the guy throwing at you. You wanna make him feel it's not worth it.

It's also an excellent way for shorter guy to get inside.Dwight Braxton used it as did Mike Tyson.

Originally Posted by BCBUD

It's also an excellent way for shorter guy to get inside.Dwight Braxton used it as did Mike Tyson.

Yes touch the body, touch the head.

Its a stopper when connecting with the sternum.