Video of my last fight !

[0james0]

Tam, you're a stockier guy use it to your advantage. Keep pressing forward, wear those bastards down. Your jab is great keep pumping that out, drive your opponent backwards keep your head moving keep your hands moving and don't allow them to get set.









A rangy guy like you last fought will want a slow pace, they'll want to measure and prod with the jab. If you're a moving target it's going to be difficult for them to handle you because once you're in range and they haven't had time to measure out their own range you can rip off some devastating punches.

Also fight in the clinch dern it, don't be so damned nice!

Great videos, love the first one. I'm also a stocky midget, so this is really helpful

[El Kabong]

Great videos, love the first one. I'm also a stocky midget, so this is really helpful

When I was boxing (heavyweight, average height about 6'2) I tried to utilize what other boxers had success with and create my own style. I'd fight small guys or guys who fought in a crouch and I'd want to keep range, keep distance so I looked to Lennox Lewis and The Klitschko brothers...sharp hard telephone pole style jab, right cross had to be quick, straight, and land right behind it so as to hit the same open spot on my opponent's face and also to use my shoulders as cover for my chin in case of counters. I used the jab, polar bear paw swat the opponent's guard down, right cross the Klitschko's always used (brilliant move by the way) and I also tried to hook off the jab as well as look for the uppercut when my opponent was over reaching.

When I was fighting taller boxers I used the Tyson style. Quick hooks, both hands, high and low, moving my opponent's guard, my head constantly moving...my favorite was to get an opponent on the ropes and rip off a left hook body, right hook body, left hook head combination...sometimes even throwing a right uppercut and another left hook to the head to finish it off. But with those kind of combinations it's all SPEED and the transfer of weight and there is a rhythm to that.

I was starting to get into using different defensive styles as I progressed. I would pivot, roll, bob, weave...I wanted a subtler version of how James Toney fought in his pomp and how Evander Holyfield fought in close. Use the counter punching which I was learning but never got round to implementing.

I suggest both you and Tam do the same, study the fighters you admire, study the styles that you feel fit you and how you want to fight (knowing that how you WANT to fight and how you BEST fight may not be the same thing). Don't just look at the guys in your weight class either, look at welterweights, flyweights, lightweights, heavyweights whatever...look at them all, study them all, practice their moves and try to make them your own.

I started off as just a slugger wailing away, tiring myself out early...I learned quite a bit of nuance as I progressed I do have natural power at least given my stature it's pretty good for a guy who isn't a professional...I never got to use that in sparring of course so I had no other choice but to learn to BOX and learn I did.

[Master]

Tam you have to live like a monk and be disciplined. That means no sex or mince pies.

[Andre]

Tam you have to live like a monk and be disciplined. That means no sex or mince pies.

No American pie either.

[Andre]

Unlucky mate.
I recon you are game gutsy fighter. Maybe were too game for your own good when he was storming you like that,you remained upright and tried to tangle him. He was over committing and coming forward keyed on your timing. So you can re watch it then next time feign more,(even feign a miss when you know the corner is behind you) and know he is coming. You can cover up go low,then rise up in between his arms and make him really pay from the ground up mate.
You could go under the arm he favors coming in on and be turned around already throwing at him so when he turns to see where you went he is caught already.
Just get your sparring partner to copy what went down in the corner and dont be there upright meeting it head on.
Work on leg and hip stretches. Then train some low moves, tight turns and uppercuts for these bigger fellas, make them hate their style.