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

by Mark Hatmaker

Overview

How did the old school, all time champs — like Jack Dempsey, Kid McCoy, Sonny Liston and Stanley Ketchel — do it? This manual examines some of the best and most interesting fighters in boxing history and gets inside the historical import of what they accomplished. Examining the training, technique and tactics of past champions, this book provides readers with recreated templates to drill and box precisely as the greats did. Here are five benefits a reader will gain from this book: 1. Gain historical perspective on one of mankind's most riveting and oldest sports. 2. Hone boxing skills via historical recreation modeling. 3. Create bonding with the material through historical perspective and physical execution. 4. Transform your boxing game as you learn to shift gears through champion mindsets. 5. Learn the valuable skill of immersion training versus simulacra training.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935937784
Publisher:	Tracks Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 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 also has produced more than 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), a research body that compiles, analyzes and teaches the most effective Western combat methods known. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

How to use the Boxing Mastery Manuals 7

Intro: Brains and fists 9

1 Building a fist like Jack Dempsey 11

2 Little Chocolate and the clinch jab 16

3 Johnny Dundee and the leaping hook 22

4 Jose Napoles and his hot buttery lead hand 25

5 Artistry of Eder Jofre 31

6 Frank Erne's two-point feint and long uppercut 38

7 Freddie Welsh's pinpoint jab 42

8 Kid McCoy's corkscrew punch 49

9 Sandy Saddler's slashing jab 54

10 Tommy Loughran's fencing jabs 60

11 Billy Conn's hit and run 70

12 Pancho Villa's hook-jab 85

13 Sonny Liston's hammer hook 90

14 The Mike Gibbons reconnaissance book 94

15 Stanley Ketchel, rotational power and boulders 111

16 Joe Frazier and the dark road 116

17 Floyd Patterson's roadwork math 120

18 Freddie Welsh's accelerated roadwork 122

19 Sonny Liston's secret to taking a punch 127

20 Battling Nelson and the scissors punch 130

21 Negative lesson from a nonchamp 134

Photo credits 145

Bibliography 146

Index 149