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Taking a step is not new in boxing. Duh! But sometimes the way you take them might be. Once in a while a move is so identified with a fighter that his name must be included in the name of the move. An additional really good example is the Walcott Walk-Away. The Starling Stomp was another good example. How about the Ali Shuffle?
The Walcott walk-away I have never heard before. I just coined it. The move always needed a name anyway, Joe's name had to be in it.
Same with Lomachenko's step-around--his name had to be in it. Others have used it to some degree before. But both Mayweather and Pep only used it to scoot around to the back of their opponent like a standing doggie style, so the ref would then step in and break them up and they could start clean again. Lomachenko uses the halfway position to punch his man from the side. This is innovative. I cannot think of anyone before him who performs this move as easily as a jab. For decades in my mind I saw someone who was fast enough doing this. I wondered why the few guys who were fast enough never tried it, and certainly never developed it. Well, then someone came along.
The Lomachenko Step-Around.
The Walcott walk-away I have never heard before. I just coined it. The move always needed a name anyway, Joe's name had to be in it.
Same with Lomachenko's step-around--his name had to be in it. Others have used it to some degree before. But both Mayweather and Pep only used it to scoot around to the back of their opponent like a standing doggie style, so the ref would then step in and break them up and they could start clean again. Lomachenko uses the halfway position to punch his man from the side. This is innovative. I cannot think of anyone before him who performs this move as easily as a jab. For decades in my mind I saw someone who was fast enough doing this. I wondered why the few guys who were fast enough never tried it, and certainly never developed it. Well, then someone came along.
The Lomachenko Step-Around.
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