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@@va4001 dont be dumb!!! We need them all!! MMA, Boxing, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, BJJ, swordfighting, nunchuck wars, knife fights. We just need to watch more ppl beat the shit out of eachother. So ppl like me can watch it and think one day if somebody tried me I could break the shit out my hand on his face. Well now the liver. No offense on the dont be dumb comment btw.
Great to see Teddy atlas teaching it exactly spot on,best person ever heard talk about the liver shot was bas rutten !!!!,it’s not a hook as can slide of the body,it’s a hybrid of a hook/uppercut dig it in diagonal into the liver,now the hard part is getting in close enough to deliver it,
A LITTLE SNAP WITH YOUR SHOULDER YOU GOT TO BE A LITTLE LOOSE.. BOP BOP... I WAS WAITING FOR BANG BANG.... LOL... TEDDY AIN'T NO ONE LIKE YOU BROTHER YOU BE MAKING MY DAY LOL... I CAN WATCH YOUR DEMONSTRATIONS OF SIGNATURE PUNCHES ALL DAY WITH KEN!! YOU AND KEN ARE A GOOD COMBO...
mickey ward. one of the best body punchers i ever saw- he would tap your head with that left hook and come right back under the elbow with that leverage uppercut- every opponent he faced knew it was coming- but he would get it in there anyway....
Teddy please do more demos like Mick's perfect liver shot. Explaining as you did, about the hook uppercut kinda angle was spot on. Excellent work guys.
Me and my grandad both agree we'd rather get knocked out than take a solid fight ending liver shot. You catch a man right in the liver, you will watch him crawl back from death.
The liver punch. I (knock on wood) was never stopped to the head, of course everyone eventually will be stopped with the right opposition or even the right angle and timing on a not so hard punch, but I had a good chin so basic shots weren't going to drop me. BUT that liver shot really floored me. I was an amateur boxer and while I was doing well, solid with my fundamentals and generally a "tough" and aggressive fight for anyone around my weight this was my first time hard sparring against a Professional boxer who was several weight classes above me as well. Anyhow, looking back I look at it, as he was taking it easy on me , since I guess he could have probably taken my head off instead - but so looking back its all crystal clear - he was jabbing, hooking and feinting high to bring my guard up - obviously testing and timing my reaction to defend the head - until there it was a hit, what we called the "shovel uppercut" to the body just below right-side ribcage. It took a half a second and I took a few steps back. Within a 2 seconds it was an ache and hard to breath. I danced around a bit and decided to tough that one out, but before the round was up, he set up another liver shot on me. This one was placed better and landed harder and this time the same pain hit, but I couldn't breath at all - it felt almost as if there was a set of nuts up in my ribs, like that dull and sickly aching feeling all cramping up. I took a knee from which I didn't get back up, I lost that session lol. It was a huge lesson for me and after that I worked a LOT of liver shots for my own arsenal including a lead liver kick which I set up well in muay thai / MMA from that point on.
Loving the videos lads! Could we get a vid on how specific Teddy gets in terms of targets? Some fighters just aim for areas as opposed to targets.... Is the physiology of the body something to study ???
Can't remember someone from the lighter weights who got the body so much when people knew it was coming. Even in fights he lost (like judah) he landed to the body and hurt him
What's better, this left upstairs followed by the left hook to the body, or what coach Anthony calls the Mexican set up, where you throw a big right to get the hands up and then throw the left to the body?
Ruben Olivares had a great left hook to the liver. It was a very long punch and I'm not sure how he managed to land it -- I need to go back and watch some of his RU-vid videos. When he won the bantamweight title from Lionel Rose, Lionel spent that night in the hospital urinating blood. Amazing power punching from such a small guy. Once he started his opponent backing up to avoid those hooks the fight was as good as over.
Teddy this my question. Mickey fought unorthodox style however the hook to head and hook to body looked like a lead hook?…. But if he fought unorthodox, Mickey liver punch was from the power side 🤷🏾♂️ confusing to me
Love me a good liver hook when i am the one putting it out. Hate to be on the recieving end, though. You knock me out for good on the chin, i never feel a thing. Just waking up , thinking: why am i on the floor? Not so with a liver punch, that shit hurts a lot...
Depends dude, how do you like to fight? Do you like to get inside and bang away? Fight on the outside and be selective with your shots? Counter punch? Like who do you look up to in boxing and what style’s appeal to you? Think about your arm length, and you body size and weight and then see how one might be more conducive than another. I loved Roberto Duran and Ward, and when I started boxing I wanted to fight just like them. Nothing wrong with attempting to mimic different styles and being vocal about who you look up to and how you want to develop as a fighter to a coach. He would give you his own input as to what seems like the best way to develop your craft, but the basics are the basics. Style is a grey area sort of thing; which develops on its own or you can work towards after those initial basics are grilled ad nasum. Footwork, the jab, the guard, blocking, etc. You have years worth of material right there and getting phenomenal in the fundamentals is the best thing you can do. Then if you want to get a little more Mickey ward with how you fight, alter it slightly and throw in pad work to mimic it, work on different combinations utilizing the body and change how some punches are thrown. Say you like throwing an upjab in, or a sneaky jab, or a shovel hook, or whatever variation and see what sticks. Nothing wrong with trying the inside route like mickey during sparring and seeing how it feels. Try to work to whatever your body is naturally set up for, not against it unless for some reason it’s doing something for you and you can get away with it
