general tips for inside fighting.

[ShoulderRoll]

Some nuggets of wisdom from the master:

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

Some nuggets of wisdom from the master:

Duran really was a master of inside fighting, man, he makes it look graceful, poetry in motion, underrated defensively too

[OctoberRed]

Duran really was a master of inside fighting, man, he makes it look graceful, poetry in motion, underrated defensively too

Inside fighting, women, booze. Nobody could hang with a prime Duran.

[Coyote142]

I just get in close by either holding my gloves up, head movement and absorbing a few shots, slip a punch and throw a left hook or two, that is usually enough to get them to either back off or try to get away. I don't clinch, I hate clinching, it's gay.

[OctoberRed]

I just get in close by either holding my gloves up, head movement and absorbing a few shots, slip a punch and throw a left hook or two, that is usually enough to get them to either back off or try to get away. I don't clinch, I hate clinching, it's gay.

I do some of these moves.

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[StefanTosic]

For the phonebooth fighting, it's always great to pivot around the opponent, in order not to be squared up right in front of him. Some of the things I found pretty effective were to keep my guard up and wait for the opponent to open up by being the first to throw, than counter him. But to do it, you have to believe in your handspeed and timing. That's something Gassiev did many times against Dorticos.

Or as somebody else wrote, you can keep your head out of the center, on your opponent's shoulder, like Duran used to do a lot, but than again you have to pay attention to your opponents rear hand and be ready to block it with your lead shoulder, or slip it (given that both of you are in ortodox stance).

It would help you a lot to spin him as much as possible while fighting in a phonebooth, instead of staying there in front of him all the time. It makes it much more difficult for him to hit you.

The options are limitless, it only depends on how creative you are. You can leave the right side of your head opened on purpose for the left hook (or any other target on your body for that purpose), than weave underneath and counter it.

Study Duran, Roman Gonzalez and James Toney.

Now for breaking out of clinch, GGG and Loma videos are great, but there's another creative solution: When your opponent trap your arm between his upper-arm and body...
1 - Start pulling it out AS IF YOU WANTED TO FREE YOURSELF JUST BY PULLING OUT
2 - Than quickly do the opposite and push your arm all the way in inside, between his arm and body
3 - Bump him back explossively with the shoulder of your trapped arm, which would make you get out of his clinch
4 - Immediately after that
a - Either club him with the other hand that was free (if it was free) and than follow with the uppercut with the hand you just got out of clinch
b - inverse it - after bumping him back explossively with your shoulder, throw the uppercut with the same hand you just got out of clinch, than throw the hook with the other

[OctoberRed]

For the phonebooth fighting, it's always great to pivot around the opponent, in order not to be squared up right in front of him. Some of the things I found pretty effective were to keep my guard up and wait for the opponent to open up by being the first to throw, than counter him. But to do it, you have to believe in your handspeed and timing. That's something Gassiev did many times against Dorticos.

Or as somebody else wrote, you can keep your head out of the center, on your opponent's shoulder, like Duran used to do a lot, but than again you have to pay attention to your opponents rear hand and be ready to block it with your lead shoulder, or slip it (given that both of you are in ortodox stance).

It would help you a lot to spin him as much as possible while fighting in a phonebooth, instead of staying there in front of him all the time. It makes it much more difficult for him to hit you.

The options are limitless, it only depends on how creative you are. You can leave the right side of your head opened on purpose for the left hook (or any other target on your body for that purpose), than weave underneath and counter it.

Study Duran, Roman Gonzalez and James Toney.

Now for breaking out of clinch, GGG and Loma videos are great, but there's another creative solution: When your opponent trap your arm between his upper-arm and body...
1 - Start pulling it out AS IF YOU WANTED TO FREE YOURSELF JUST BY PULLING OUT
2 - Than quickly do the opposite and push your arm all the way in inside, between his arm and body
3 - Bump him back explossively with the shoulder of your trapped arm, which would make you get out of his clinch
4 - Immediately after that
a - Either club him with the other hand that was free (if it was free) and than follow with the uppercut with the hand you just got out of clinch
b - inverse it - after bumping him back explossively with your shoulder, throw the uppercut with the same hand you just got out of clinch, than throw the hook with the other

You broke it down nicely. Kudos for that.

[Ren28]

yeah good stuff. thanks

[OctoberRed]

yeah good stuff. thanks

Anymore videos coming?