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Hey I just wanted to see if we could make a thread linking some of the WBC fights that guys in the library have had?

 

Samart vs Jeff Fenech.  Super Bantemweight title fight 1987.   Story from what I’m hearing is Samart was very sick before this fight.  Still we can see just how slick Samart is in the beginning until he gassed. 

This one is of Samart vs Rafael Gandarilla.  Masterclass in open stance jabbing.  Samart absolutely destroys this guy.  So cool how damn GOOD Thais are at moving backwards.  Even in western boxing.  I love this match, the strange venue (it’s like a fancy dinner?) the video quality is amazing too.  
 

I’m really hoping especially to find some Samson fights.  It’s cool seeing how these guys boxed. 

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Samson Issan (Dutch boy) vs Benjie Canete.  
 

Samson vs Canete

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Also Samson vs Thembinkosi Ntyinkala

very cool.  Extremely demonstrative for anyone looking to study/incorporate Samson’s “max guard”.  I’m taking note that an essential part of this guard is forwards movement and bullying his opponent around.  It looks a little similar to the much crappier version that a lot of bad fighters use where their gloves are more at their temples.  Samson’s head posture and the fact that his hands are at the top (or crown) is only 1/2 of the effectiveness.  The other half is how he actually pushes into the opponents fist which may seem counterintuitive.  However, not only is he stifling the last few inches of the punch which is where “pop” comes from, he also ends up engaging his muscles around this guard (that being mostly his neck and lats) which takes energy that would be transferred to the head and redirects it to his torso.  Kind of like a lightning rod for kinetic energy from a punch.  He also pushes his forearms outwards at times which again is capturing kinetic energy and rerouting it to his much heavier torso through his much bigger lat muscles with much more inertia to overcome to make him move.  

Absolutely brilliant, cannot believe we don’t see this guard more often. 

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8 hours ago, Nightshade said:

Extremely demonstrative for anyone looking to study/incorporate Samson’s “max guard”.  I’m taking note that an essential part of this guard is forwards movement and bullying his opponent around.  It looks a little similar to the much crappier version that a lot of bad fighters use where their gloves are more at their temples.  Samson’s head posture and the fact that his hands are at the top (or crown) is only 1/2 of the effectiveness.  The other half is how he actually pushes into the opponents fist which may seem counterintuitive.  However, not only is he stifling the last few inches of the punch which is where “pop” comes from, he also ends up engaging his muscles around this guard (that being mostly his neck and lats) which takes energy that would be transferred to the head and redirects it to his torso.  Kind of like a lightning rod for kinetic energy from a punch.  He also pushes his forearms outwards at times which again is capturing kinetic energy and rerouting it to his much heavier torso through his much bigger lat muscles with much more inertia to overcome to make him move.

These are really great observations. Perfectly said.

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