Oldschool Briliance

**greynotsoold** · 01-31-2011 04:58 PM

Good stuff! Louis/Schmeling I is one of my favorite tactical fights of all time. Schmeling's positioning made it hard for Louis to throw combinations and enabled Schmeling to keep the fight between his greatest strength (his excellant right hand) and the biggest weakness of Louis (a tendency to drop his jab).

**donnydarkoIRL** · 02-01-2011 02:33 AM

My favourite recent piece of positioning was martinez vs. williams 2.
Martinez had been giving ground. He did something I like- he took one step back from the centre of the ring and then moved laterally, so as not to sacrifice too much ground.
Williams changed direction when Martinez took a lateral and allowed his back to face the ropes. This allowed Martinez a direct root to the centre of the ring, across the face of Williams. Martinez threw the overhand left moving across Williams and a wonderful KO was the result. I believe this was a purposeful move and I enjoyed the ring awareness.

**greynotsoold** · 02-01-2011 02:40 AM

Something looked odd to me about that fight, and then it hit me. Two southpaws!!!!!!
When did that become acceptable?

**donnydarkoIRL** · 02-01-2011 02:42 AM

Ha yes, its rare to see two southies fight- rarer to see two left handed guys that want to mix it.

**Andre** · 02-01-2011 07:17 AM

Gee even the sound has two hits landing. The commentators are confused right hand , no left hand, williams threw the left hand williams is down

**Jimanuel Boogustus** · 02-01-2011 12:12 PM

I'm sure the ref is still there, counting while the doctor is rolling him over...

**Nameless** · 02-01-2011 12:20 PM

In my opinion, movement wise, 2 of the greatest tactitians have been The mangoose Archie Moore and Marvin HAgler, these 2 knew where to get the guys exactly where they wanted it in a position to hit them with combos.