So you're not the best at parrying punches in the world, who cares neither am I. I found a solid defense that can be frustrating if you're going up against it. It's not much different than what Muhammad Ali would do.

Follow me on this one.

-First you need to go to 'Create a Champ'
-Now you have 2 choices, you can either make a new guy from scratch or adjust one of your guys accordingly to what I'm about to tell you.

-Okay in Edit Boxer change his base style to smooth. Set his punching style to something that's not slow; I picked 'Sinister Cross" in my set-up. Blocking style doesn't matter a whole lot but I went with Philly-shell. The idea is to get someone that can really move quickly on their feet and be pretty fast when it comes to throwing leather.

-It's best that you make him in the lighter weights classes. For my guy he's a lightweight. Make your guy as tall as possible for his weight, this is important both offensively and defensively.

-Now we are on to stats, you want speed, agility and stamina maxed out. You can adjust the others to anything you want.-

-Let's take your new fighter for a test run. Your opponent for this fight-- let's pick Roberto Duran.

-Now here's the strategy, you use your timing and control of the distance to land your long range shots while always staying out of range of your opponent when you're not attacking. You can can attack in close but be vary reserved about it because this is the only way he can hit you.

-Here is the defensive part, you cover your body up by blockin. You need to stay out of range for the most part with your defense commited to blocking body punches, when he steps into range to hit you, all you'll have to do is lean back. It's that easy, you'll have the advantage against anyone that's not taller than you.

You don't have to worry about body punches or parrying you just control the distance, pick him apart with jabs, and lean back when they want to hit you in the face. Just don't let them get to close to you, you can even clinch and then push them away to create range, or exchange punches on the inside until you can get away.

This defense would be 100% solid if only you had an extra arm to protect your nuts from low blows, but that's a problem with every defense now isn't it.

Anyways give this style of defense a shot, once you have the reflexes down when it comes to leaning away from the punch, keeping them at distance and picking your shots you'll be invincible!

This even works well against real people, and some probably use this defense somewhat.


Peace...