Streetfighter or boxer?

[Soju]

wow that guy's a colossal ****tard and was obviously going to the gym for the wrong reasons

[MonsieurGeorges]

good for you man, shows why you should always stick with something difficult

[Juof]

good to hear you boxed the socks off him to force him to use dirty tactics shows why boxing is a thinking mans game and not just anyone can bulldoze thier way to victories

[squealpiggy]

Hey guys,

I sparred again with him...

The outcome was unexpected...

I decided to think more and wait for his shots, jabbin him all the time...every time he used to throw his right, which was almost always a power punch I just turned towards his right shoulder making him miss wildly. I did this over and over countering with 1-2s and right hands, the guy got so pissed, he just could´t find me...

Half way through the second round he got so angry he pushed me against the rope, i leaned on them givin my back to him and the S.O.B. just started pounding on the back of my head!

I guess that was the only way to get to me..so the ref stopped the session and the guy´s not allowed in the gym no more lol.

Impressive changes from one sparring session to another..it was just a confidence boost. Great experience.

I'm glad you managed to learn from this knuckle-dragging doofus. Guys come to the boxing gym thinking they can fight and thinking that sparring is fighting, and it's tough for a small guy to cope if they start being dirty. You did really well adapting, and got some really good advice from here as well.

You spar another doofus who wants to cheat to "win" at sparring by breaking the rules of boxing, pull some of the more subtle boxing tricks in return. Push off with the elbow for example or, my favourite when someone is leaning on me and holding is to drop the shoulder his chin is resting on and sharply bring it up again. Then when he backs off step on his toe and throw an overhand right.

Oh and work on really short lefts to the body. If you can hit with power into the liver while he's holding then he won't hold any more.