Often you see fighters get fatigued as a fight wears on and they begin trying to take in more air by opening their mouths. Although this feels like the right solution, they are actually doing themselves more harm than good and exposing themselves to greater potential for injury in the process. It may feel like [...]
Training
If you’ve spent countless hours toiling-away in the gym, left gallons of sweat on the ring canvas and have gone through more ice healing your wounds than 7-Eleven sells for Big Gulps in a week and you still aren’t any closer to becoming the fighter you think and know you should be, then it’s likely [...]
If you’ve spent much time in the gym or listened intently into the corners of many fighters, more than once you’ve probably heard a trainer tell his fighter to “cut the ring off”. Although it sounds like easy-enough advice there are wrong and right ways to go about taking your opponent’s mobility away and effectively [...]
The old saying that “Rules were made to be broken” has some truth in it, even when it comes to boxing. As important as proper fundamentals are, how much good technique can serve you and how valuable it is to master the rules of the ring, there are some unorthodox moves that work for certain [...]
Just like there are Cardinal Sins of Boxing, those things you should never do inside the ring, there are also the Golden Rules of Boxing. These aren’t basic tips that reinforce good boxing form, like using your jab or keeping your hands up. Those are techniques. The Golden Rules of Boxing are ring philosophies. They are [...]
There are some very specific things you have to do inside the ring to be a good boxer, but there are also some very specific things you should NEVER do in the ring in order to be a good boxer. Of course, there are the basic rules, like…don’t drop your jab when you bring it [...]
When boxing’s first protective gum shield (mouthpiece) was introduced in 1913 by dentist, Jack Marks, and was consequently made popular by boxer Ted “Kid” Lewis, his creation was purely intended to provide protection for the teeth and gums. Little did he know, his simple product would ultimately be altered and engineered to improve athletic performance? [...]
In order to be successful in boxing, you have to be willing to go against the grain a little, fly in the face of adversity and do some things that aren’t necessarily considered “normal.” The thing is…most of the adversity and emotions you experience in the ring actually are normal and even practical, but over [...]
You can place fighters in a wide variety of categories. Aside from obvious weight divisions, they can be separated by fighting style, size, shapes or skill level. Those are the tangibles, the more physical attributes that differentiate them from each other, but when it comes to the mentality of a fighter, most of them fall [...]
No matter who you ask in boxing, they will likely tell you that the sport is as much about mental toughness as it is physical ability. Teddy Atlas has always said that, “Boxing is 75 percent mental and 25 percent physical.” Former Jr. Welterweight champion, Devon Alexander says similarly “I think boxing is definitely 80 [...]
