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Boxing Coach | Video Analyst
Apr 6, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
HOW Floyd Mayweather set the tone in round 1 vs. Manny Pacquiao

A THREAD Image The feeling out process – Mayweather comes out jabbing Pacquiao’s lead hand, feinting, keeping him occupied. Everything about this says “threatening”. Pac clearly respects what Floyd is doing here and repositions himself when he anticipates a 1-2.
May 15, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Linares tamed Loma somewhat (he did a good job of pivoting into the space Loma had just vacated when he tried to step around him), but he never came close to neutralizing him altogether. Linares is inconsistent defensively, and whenever he stood in front of Loma with his ... ... gloves held high, he got picked apart. Loma had a lot of success with same hand, body-head combinations (left to the body-left uppercut up the middle, right to the body-right uppercut up the middle), and when coming back with a right hook upstairs after throwing a left ...