Use of the Forearm in boxing

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Also

While i rememeber to ask...

Is it fair to pressume that if a fighter dips below waist level that it is illigal to punch as the only viable place to strike is on the back of the head?

Should it not then be the case that any fighter should not be permitted to contort to such unearthly disfiguremnet


..... Phhh! Im never gonna get anywhere with this question, i just know it

Yeh i'd actually like to know the proper answers to these questions.

No i'm not bitter by the way....you all know am a Hatton fan....but he just got beat, plain and simple.

Is Floyd defence bordering on illegal? Or is it the most effective way to avoid punches? Or is it both?

If it is legal (and i think it must be) then it is by far the most effective defence i have ever seen. There is basically no target to land a punch on.

And the use of the forearm is the perfect set up to land a lead right.....seriously Floyd has got everything.

it's clever if you bend to the waist line, you have little target unless the guy is real short and can land an uppercut, what usually happens is the other guys charges forward and leans on, in which case you can claim he was pushing you down, and/or the ref steps in and restarts.