I've been put down twice in my career and got up to win, do you know what I mean?
What about you, you haven't been KO'd? – I haven't been KO'd no.
I've never KO'd anyone with a pad on either. – There's always a first.
Have you got a good defence? – I don't know we'll see.
Let's have a look at your jab. And again.
If we're in a fight and you're jabbing, I'm going to go here and knock you spark out underneath
the chin You've got to be cute with it. You're trying
to catch your opponent out with a jab. So got you, don't know where it's coming from
Got you. Right, let's see what your hook's looking like
Right that's a rubbish left hook.
What you're doing with that left hook, you're trying to throw it like a jab.
When you hook, if you have a look at what my arm does, it's already bent, look, watch,
and it stays bent. Everything is from the legs and the body twisting.
Better! Let's see if you can throw a right hand after
that hook. Ideally this is what it should look like.
Can you throw an uppercut? Not too long, you're reaching!
Just shorten it. Better!
And a hook. Rubbish!
And again, and a right hand on that! Nice!
Right back to the jab. No good, see it coming. Relax.
Everything is relaxed, and when you're ready to jab, yeah, sharp, step in with it. Better.
You hear that last one? That was a proper jab.
I can hear the difference Have a breather that will do you for now.
So, you've had one round with your opponent, and you've had a chance to see what he's got.
Do you ever change your game plan? If you think they're weaker or stronger?
Do you know what? It might sound ridiculous, we never really had, when I say we, Rob MacCracken
and myself, we never really had a game plan as such. We never say, right, we're going
to go for the finish, or we're just going to box and move and keep out of his way.
Plan A for any boxer as far as I'm concerned is hit and don't get hit, so land your shots
and get hit as little as possible. What's the most difficult skill, landing a
barrage of punches or avoiding a barrage of punches?
For me it was avoiding punches. It's hard to avoid shots, especially when you're trying
to land your own because you can always put yourself in a safe place and keep yourself
out the way but then you're not going to be in a position to land your shots, so you have
to be in the danger zone, which is in punching range to get your shots of. And it is hard
to defend yourself in punching range. We'l go back to the Jab just to show you how
difficult it is for an opponent to get past somebody with reach advantage.
See the jab is always threatening you. The jab can come when it wants.
You've got to get in range. You've got me in the corner, now this is when
you'd left your shots go. A professional fighter who's experienced would just go here I come.
Grab you. You try and hit me now to the body.
Nothing! There's nothing on them punches. You can't
hit me. Essentially, when you were boxing, where you
looking at gloves, head body. I look at the chest. I don't like looking
them in the eyes until I've hurt them, it puts me of.
As soon as I've hurt them with a shot or catch them with a shot where I know it's landed
hard, I'd look in there eyes. When I had Groves in the first fight and I
had him hurt, I knew he was gone because his eyes were rolling, not focused on anything,
he's just looking into nowhere, just a vacant stare and you can see that when you're fighting.
So now I'll start to jab. So you got to try and get past this jab now.
This is just one arm. So that jab there's that's hitting you in
the shoulder. That would be in your face. It would be your nose. Your mouth. Your eye.
After three rounds, your eye'd closed. Your nose is bleeding that heavy you can't breath.
Have you ever eased up on a boxer? What do you do when you know it's a mismatch?
Try and finish them. To stop it. Listen some boxers don't, some boxers jab and move and
keep out of the way. When Wladimir Klitschko hurt Anthony Joshua in their fight, by nature
and because Manny Steward got him boxing and moving because Corey Sanders knocked him out
terrible. So since then he adopted a safety first style, so he's good with his jab and
his movement. So when he had Anthony Joshua hurt in their first fight, it wasn't in him
to go for the finish. As opposed to some like me when I boxed, or Deontay Wilder if he catches
you, he then tries to finish you off. I'm going to give you something else to think
about now, which you'll know straight away because the right hand is going to come back
at you. So you're not only just thinking about the jab coming at you and where that's coming,
and what's he going to hit me with. But also the right hand comes in to play. So you've
now got to be careful. Theoretically you should be able to hit me because you're in range.
You gotta try and hit me.
See the problem you've got?
– I see the problem I've got, you're a world champion.
Once you get in range it's difficult to get your shots off.
– And once you feel them coming back you don't want to let them go as much.
Good that, good work. He's a tough son of a bitch.