it's very hard for him to break my guard
i've let the shoulder take the other punch i can get there and back faster on
this video i'm going to talk about the four different stances and guards that we see in
boxing i'm also going to tell you the pros and cons of each one and give you some tips
on how to beat someone with that boxing stance my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist
boxer former undefeated professional seven times national champion european champion
and today i'm joined by my business partner top box and fitness expert Kevan Watson so
the first stance is kind like the roy jones jr prince nazim hammed this is a stance that
everyone thinks looks cool and it does look cool and people try to do which is having their hands
down so i'll be in front of my opponent I'll have my wide stance my hands down head
moving and this is a good stance for a lot of reasons but as well it's a
bad stance for a lot of reasons and the reason why it's good is i'm in front of my
opponent here i'm moving if he throws a jab i can slip and come back with my counter punches
there and it makes him really think and makes him really wary about throwing the punches if i'm
in front of him like this then he'll throw a jab and i'll come back and he'll slip out of the way
so the pros with this is your opponent doesn't know what you're going to throw which makes
it very wary for him to throw a punch because he's going to be expecting a counter punch coming
from a different sort of angle than he's used to and as well another pro with having this style is
you're staying relaxed your upper body's relaxed you're not using too much energy compared to
traditional boxing styles where you might be tight now going on to the cons about this style is well
the first one is your hands is down you're wide open and all you're doing for defense is relying
on your reaction so you've got to have very very good reactions to have this boxing stance so if
you're in the ring with an opponent like this how would you beat them well i want to give you a
couple of different ways the first thing you want to be doing is you want to be feinting and you want
to be thrown the punch because if he's feinting all the time to me now what that does that keeps me
thinking and now i'm getting aware of your throwing punches because i don't know what's going to come
back at me so yeah definitely keep feinting and then the other way to beat someone like this is
throw multiple punches if you're throwing single punches throwing single punches i can always come
back with the counters and that's what i would want if i had that boxing stance it's my opponent
to throw single punches so i can counter him fast now what he should do is throw multiple punches
moving forward now let's see if he throws multiple punches at me and i've got my hands down now i'm
here now i'm on the ropes now i'm where he wants me to be which is on the rope so that's what you
want to do you want to throw multiple punches try and cutting the ring down getting this guy to get
onto the ropes keeping them hands tight always be wary of the counter punches coming at you number
two is the peekaboo style and we see fighters like a mike tyson with his hands up in this
peekaboo style position and my favorite fighter to have this style was ronald winky wright and
i've done a full video on the tight guard the pros and cons so click up here wherever it is and watch
that full video because i'll break it down for you telling you exactly what you need to know about
that and this is called the peekaboo style because when you've got your hands up every time you
pull your hands down you've got to see a peekaboo that's that's a joke you don't do that so with
this stance you've got your hands up and you're very tight you want to be covering your full body
here so if i'm in with a traditional boxer and i've got this peekaboo style my hands up and
he throws the punches it's very hard for him to break my guard get through and create space with
these punches here it's great for not getting hit that is the biggest pro for this is obviously
the defense you've got your hands up you can't really get hit when you're in that position
now the cons for me totally outweigh the pros the cons are even right there when he's still
throwing the punches if you notice he's just touching there but the punches are still hitting
my glove against my head so i can still feel it and as well when he is here and he's throwing the
punches like my vision is very blocked it's hard to really see and when he throws them hooks around
the side i can't see these punches coming because i'm blocking here now the other thing is when
i want to throw punches my punches have got to come all the way from here all the way out all the
way back they've got that extra distance to travel compared to the traditional style if i'm here
it's got less distance to travel than here and now the less distance it's got to travel the
faster it's going to get there so there are a couple of the cons of the peekaboo style so how
to beat someone with this style i mean the the big thing is try and keep the punches long you
don't want to smooth your punches he's trying to get in close to me so if he's in close to me now i
mean he's ranged now he can throw the punches and land them i want to try and keep the punches long
keep him out the distance like this and then from there what i want to do is try and create space
so i'll hit him up to the head to try and land our body shot hit him up with the body then try
and land the head shots after that so hitting high going low hitting low going high and as well not
smothering your work not letting him dictate the pace and put the pressure on and definitely you
want to keep off the ropes when you're fighting someone like this number three is the philly
shell now this is getting very popular through the likes of floyd mayweather also roy jones was a
master at the philly shell as well and what you're doing here you're defending your body with your
lead hand here your back hands here defending the hooks that's coming in and then your shoulder is
defending the straight punches here and because your hands are here you've got great vision to see
everything else that's coming at ya so when i'm boxing the philly shell here and he'll pull the
one two i'll defend it like this one two again so i've parried and then i've let the shoulder
take the other punch okay even when he aims for my head there i'm defending that by blocking with
the shoulder which can be very effective and then if he throws the one two hook i'll defend
it with this one so he's done the one two hook there i've defended with my back hand there
again one two hook yeah so it can be very useful for defending punches like i said with the vision
open it's great because you've got great vision so the pros with the philly shell is like i mentioned
the vision is great because you've got your hands here you're not blocking your face also you're
putting yourself in a great position to counter if he throws a right hand at me i've blocked there
look i'm in that great position to come back with a right hand of my own yes so them are some of the
pros there now the cons is you've got this lead hand down here you've got to have great reactions
to be able to to defend uh the punches coming out and as well with this you're blasting someone
in the arm if you're getting blasted in the arm all the time guess what your arm is going to be
tired in round two three four five so you know you got to think about that as well when i when
i box people who did this style i used to always throw that big right hand over the top so i fully
jabbed the body that's through the right hand over the top he's blocked it with his shoulder i would
step in and throw another one and keep throwing them punches over the top and they were kind
of stuck in this position there so if you are fighting someone with a philly shell what you
need to do is work on feints and getting your feet closer to land them punches they want to stay
out of range like this you want to get your feet closer and then throw the punches and land at the
punches now moving on to number four this is the boxing stance that i recommend this is the boxing
stance that i did that i recommend everyone does especially when you're starting out boxing before
you figure out what stance you want to do and that is the traditional boxing stance with your legs
just more than shoulder width apart hands up by the face you've got your right hand tight to your
body here to defend these punches your lead hands out a little bit now you look at someone like a
triple g who's a master at this style with great footwork and great defense hands up high now this
here is solid defending the punches and if i'm in front of an opponent my my lead hand is out just
a little bit which means i can get there and back faster than if my hand was here all the way
out and all the way back and with this hand out as well it's great to find the range triggered
moving up and down keep my opponent thinking with the feints up and down then throwing the punches so
you can really find the range with this lead hand keeping this one tight before a he comes forward
with multiple punches let's block it up then i can come back with punches of my own so some of
the pros with the traditional boxing stance is i think the first one is balance so you're
in a great balanced position when you throw them punches you can throw long combinations and keep
in a great balanced position i've done a video on keeping your balance when you're throwing a
long combination so check that video out as well so the balance is great compared to another
stance where it might be here with your arm down and your weight's kind of more on the back foot or
to the first one that we did with the hands down you've got that right guard you're kind of off
balance here so the traditional boxing stance the balance is a massive pro for that one another pro
is you can work on all of your punches that you've worked on in the past in the gym all punches
work from a traditional boxing stance compared to this stance or this stance or this stance with a
traditional boxing stance you can pull off just about any punch that you want and i guess the
cons with this is it's the traditional boxing stance 95 percent of boxers have this boxing
stance so when you're in there with someone you've got to do something special to be able
to land them punches you've got to be someone special to have success in doing this because
people are used to fighting or training with people with this boxing stance so how do you beat
someone with this boxing stance well basically it's the same way as you would beat all of the
other boxing styles all combined so you've got the feints you've got the multiple punches you've
got the head body punches and it really comes down to the opponent you're in with what their
style is how good they are how good they're not so guys but the most important thing is you
practice find out what boxing stance works for you do that stick with that if you enjoyed this video
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