Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
the left foot is illusory. The real distance, where you need to be to effectively land each and every punch, is judged by your right foot.
i don't know how true that is. roy jones fought from his front foot a lot. he pushed off of it to throw a left hook, or a jump hook as he called it, or he pushed off of it to move back from your right hand to throw a check hook over it in the same motion. he even threw his right hand from it because he liked to use it to square his hips to throw a clean up left hook. he threw jabs from his front foot because he needed his body weight to be over his front foot for this style to work. that check hook over a right hand you can't even throw without pushing off of your front foot. i think jones only used his back foot to get body weight over it when he would slip a jab through the space that he has next to his left ear and over his left shoulder to come back over it with a counter right hand. you look at the stance that jones had and its very front foot dominant. there were very few things a guy like jones was doing from his back foot and why is that so wrong. you look at a guy like muhammad ali. a guy like pernell whitaker. a guy like floyd mayweather. its front foot. its not about back foot. i don't understand this bias against guys who do things from the front foot.