Boxing Like the Champs 2: More Lessons from Boxing's Greatest Fighters

by Mark Hatmaker

Overview

Get a load of just some of the recently unearthed gold in this volume: 1. Jack Johnson's "Biceps Punch." 2. Gentleman Jim's Not-Quite-a-Jab. 3. Joe Louis's "Attacking the Buckler" strategy. 4. Gunboat Smith's devastating "Occipital Punch." 5. Bare-knuckle legend Jack Slack's "Chopper." 6. The real deal on how Jack Dempsey built the power in that Lead Hook. 7. "Hurricane" Jackson's wild "Scoop Punch." 8. How Joe Frazier built his eccentric defensive rhythm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935937814
Publisher:	Tracks Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Mark Hatmaker is the bestselling author of the No Holds Barred Fighting Series, the MMA Mastery Series, No Second Chance and Boxing Mastery. He has sold more than 200,000 books and produced 40 instructional videos. His resume includes extensive experience in the combat arts including boxing, wrestling, Jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai. He is a highly regarded coach of professional and amateur fighters, law enforcement officials, and security personnel. Hatmaker founded Extreme Self Protection (ESP). ESP holds numerous seminars throughout the country each year including the prestigious Karate College/Martial Arts Universities in Radford, Virginia.

Table of Contents

How to use the Boxing Mastery manuals 7

Intro: Condemn yourself 9

Part 1 Tactics 11

1 "Susie-Q" x 2 11

2 Joe Louis and "Brewster style" 16

3 Joe Louis' step & throw 24

4 Joe Louis' balancing act 28

5 "Biting," bare-knuckle boxing & Jack Johnson's biceps punch 31

6 Movement-under-load training 36

7 The Corbett jab 39

8 "Attacking the buckler" from Heenan to Louis 45

9 Frank Moran's "Mary Ann" 49

10 Gunboat Smith's "occipital punch" 52

11 Kid Gavilan's bolo punch 57

12 George Dawson & the kidney punch 63

13 Champ to champ 70

14 Jack Slack's "chopper" 74

15 Building Dempsey's hook 80

16 "Hurricane" Jackson's "scoop punch" 82

17 Smokin' Joe's erratic bob & weave 86

18 Punching up, Marciano style 91

19 Jack McCarthy's "chin hook" clinch 97

20 Tommy Farr & pit fighting 100

21 Johnny Wilson's body-killing & hand-saving tactics 104

22 Two-fisted, body-killing Pete "Kid" Herman style 108

23 Tommy Burns' darting lead hook 114

24 Panama Browns' up fist 120

25 Luther McCarthy's "Betsy" 124

26 Parsing Marciano's trailing forearm 131

27 Ken Norton's personal one-two 134

28 Salvador Sanchez's "short hook" 142

Part 2 Strategy & observations 144

1 Master trainer on training for toughness 144

2 Kid McCoy's "shoelace trick" 147

3 Charley Goodman & Angelo Dundee: "Be you, but more so" 149

4 Joe Louts and "working softly" 151

Part 3 Training & conditioning 156

1 Boxing & lumberjack connection 156

2 Jack Johnson & gandy dancing 167

3 Mr. Owen's exertions 172

4 Jaw training with Alan Minter & others 178

5 Several roads to neck training 183

6 "The Herkimer Hurricane" push & shove drill 190

7 A dip in the pool with Giovani "Nino" Benvenuti & others 194

8 Blitz-drills 'The Hawk" style 198