Love the Heavy's use of the jab. He used the orthodox style and jab to shut down the lightweight and force the lightweight to overcommit. Heavy even used this same strategy when switching to southpaw. Classic defense.

Heavy was patient and def know how to box, switching it up. Good work from both

Love seeing the spear/long arm defense. Deflecting punch trajectory is so underutilized in favor of hard blocking or head movement. Andy Ruiz is a great example when he sticks either arm out across his body it both deflects an incoming straight punch from either side and simultaneously protects your face with your shoulder for incoming hooks to the same side. Leaves you more open to body shots but when you know that you drill reactions and counters specifically for that. Also when you stick your arm all the way out like that it's a perfect set up for a non-telegraph punch. Love Heavy's technique here

This is why weight classes exist. A long jab is hard to beat when you’re own jab can’t reach and the heavier guy isn’t overcommitting so he can be the one to start boxing or counter-punching with plenty of room for defense. When you’re a smaller boxer, you’re kinda forced to fight by mixing and sacrificing a little defense (balance) to make your offense good enough to get in a position to trade shots. If you fail you get hurt and worse knocked out so your punches have to count. Loma and Usyk have the safer more balanced approach to this using great balance, punch selection, and smart entries. Pacquiao achieved this by being a little more wild and abused his speed and timing. Pacquiao committing hard on his offense after getting the guy in front of him to undercommit on defense or overcommit on offense after testing the waters using real jabs, bait jabs, and jab counters. It really helps to have that southpaw-orthodox familiarity advantage in that regard like they did. Otherwise, you can play defense and try to counter-punch, but if the bigger guy is disciplined he’ll likely be able just score and keep distance like was the case here mostly.

Great body shots, when he got use to them though, going up stairs with it would be amazing.

I like this, I got a style similar to both of them.

When are you boys gonna go pro

I think bro in the gray shirt tryna flex his abs

All blue has to do is parry with the same hand and return his jab…using the left to parry a jab limits you.

😂Is the lightweight injured and got replaced. Neither of these mf lightweights

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