Nerdcore Boxing

Forgive me father for I only did 20 min of cardio last night. The lunges had my legs feeling like jello, so I cut back a bit. While I’m here confessing, I only did 20 mins today too. My thighs and glutes are hella sore.

After the cardio I did 5 rounds of bobbing & weaving and worked moving in all directions during v-slips. I’m going to take an ice bath before I go to sleep to try and eliminate some soreness before class tomorrow.

Last weekend one of my sparring partners won a gold medal in the junior Olympics.

The kid is an awesome boxer and no one works harder at my gym. It’s going to be tough but my new goal is to match his work ethic.

After Dana White and Floyd Mayweather Jr’s tiff, there’s been a lot of talk recently about the quality of boxing in MMA. Today I saw a well written, but flawed article in IndsideFighting.com.

The article starts off strong with records of former boxers losing in MMA but makes some unsubstantiated conclusions, why exactly wouldn’t shoulder rolls work and why would smaller gloves favor looping punches? But more importantly it misses out on analyzing large amounts of data:

* K-1 has knees, kicks and clinch and many of the top fighters (Hoost, Kaman, Leko, Hug, Cro Cop, etc.) are excellent boxers, much better than most MMA’ers.

* Today’s MMA fighters are more likely to work with boxing trainers than in the past. Probably as a result pf this the level of boxing in MMA has gotten a lot better in the last 3 years.

* Many contenders and some MMA champions are some of the better boxers within MMA. Some come from boxing backgrounds. Lytle, GSP, Fedor, Kang, Davis, Cro Cop, Pulver, etc.

Personally I think in 3 years you won’t hear much criticism of MMA fighter’s boxing skills. The sport is just evolving.