Boxing Like the Champs

Lessons from Boxing's Greatest Fighters

Mark Hatmaker

• Publisher: Tracks Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781935937784
• Year: 2016

How did the old school, all time champs — like Jack Dempsey, Kid McCoy, Sonny Liston and Stanley Ketchel — do it? This manual examines some of the best and most interesting fighters in boxing history and gets inside the historical import of what they accomplished. Examining the training, technique and tactics of past champions, this book provides readers with recreated templates to drill and box precisely as the greats did. Here are five benefits a reader will gain from this book: 1. Gain historical perspective on one of mankind's most riveting and oldest sports. 2. Hone boxing skills via historical recreation modeling. 3. Create bonding with the material through historical perspective and physical execution. 4. Transform your boxing game as you learn to shift gears through champion mindsets. 5. Learn the valuable skill of immersion training versus simulacra training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• How to Use the Boxing Mastery Manuals
• Intro: Brains and Fists
• 1. Building a Fist like Jack Dempsey
• 2. Little Chocolate and the Clinch Jab
• 3. Johnny Dundee and the Leaping Hook
• 4. Jose Napoles and His Hot Buttery Lead Hand
• 5. Artistry of Eder Jofre
• 6. Frank Erne’s Two-point Feint and Long Uppercut
• 7. Freddie Welsh’s Pinpoint Jab
• 8. Kid McCoy’s Corkscrew Punch
• 9. Sandy Saddler’s Slashing Jab
• 10. Tommy Loughran’s Fencing Jabs
• 11. Billy Conn’s Hit and Run
• 12. Pancho Villa’s Hook-jab
• 13. Sonny Liston’s Hammer Hook
• 14. The Mike Gibbons Reconnaissance Book
• 15. Stanley Ketchel, Rotational Power and Boulders
• 16. Joe Frazier and the Dark Road
• 17. Floyd Patterson’s Roadwork Math
• 18. Freddie Welsh’s Accelerated Roadwork
• 19. Sonny Liston’s Secret to Taking a Punch
• 20. Battling Nelson and the Scissors Punch
• 21. Negative Lesson From a Nonchamp
• Photo Credits
• Bibliography
• Backcover