Mike Tyson | Crazy Drills That Became KOs PART 2 -Technique Breakdown

in the 80s and 90s Mike Tyson ruled the heavyweight division he used custom mottos peekaboo style of boxing to destroy every opponent in his pack last time we looked at some unique drills - Tyson practice with trainer Kevin Rooney these drills helped to set up some Tyson's most spectacular knockouts this time we're gonna cover the remaining drills and fill in the missing pieces of Tyson stop this breakdown will get a bit more advanced as we delve into how these techniques work together the simple elements creating a complex and unique system of fighting that permanently changed the sport of boxing last time we looked at how Tyson practice rapidly shifting forward and squared up stats while dodging an insane amount of punches slipping for straights and weaving for hooks this helped Tyson to quickly and safely close the distance now let's take a look at the offensive version of this truth it's essentially the same footwork as the slipping drill but Tyson is now throwing a rapid-fire punch with each step one of the main principles of D'Amato system was for the practitioner to get close enough to negate the reach of taller opponents Picabo fighters use superior speed to flurry beating their competitors to the punch with short tight hooks and uppercuts this killed a lengthier fighters jab and cross their go-to weapons these close range flurries were also a specialty of de Manos first champion Floyd Patterson Patterson speed was legendary and is an ongoing debate whether he or Muhammad Ali had the fastest hands at heavyweight Tyson was by no means as fast as Patterson but he could regularly beat his opponent to the punch by taking a tighter angle to pull this off Tyson's hooks needed to be so tight there were nearly elbows and while Tyson may not have had Patterson speed he most certainly possessed far greater power to create openings for these close-range punches Tyson's hips and shoulders had to be squared up with his opponents to get there he used some of the drills covered in the last video of course Tyson's competitors usually did their best to keep their stance narrow and stay safely sideways pivoting out to regain their defensive position but obviously this rarely worked that's because Tyson's footwork was primarily geared towards crowding his opponents and then cutting off their escape one way the Tyson did this was to purposefully practice sidestepping so deep inside that he temporarily changed into a southpaw position with his right leg closer to his opponent than his left rooney drilled this concept of Tyson repeatedly in several different scenarios and is one of the keys of Tyson success of pressuring his upon us this was often predicated off of a lead hook as his opponent tried to pivot out of the way the lead hook would change midair into a rear hook and Tyson was an ideal positioned follow-up from southpaw here's a great example from Tyson's early career Tyson enters inside with a 2/3 and his opponent tries to pivot out to stay safe the textbook response would be for Tyson to step forward to regain his stance but Tyson instead turned shifts into southpaw to follow his competitor his deep inside position has placed his right foot on the outside of his opponents cutting him off and aligning his rear hand he puts his opponent down with two vicious hooks this exact same scenario repeats a short while later ending the fight and here are a few more examples of Tyson transitioning into southpaw from a deep inside position the placement of Tyson's rear foot on the outside of his opponent's left is key to cutting off his escape and aligning his shots the next drill is a great example of how Tyson put his combinations together so that each punch set up the next and this one was demonstrated by cus D'Amato himself as mentioned last time Tyson would double up on attacks with the same hand attacking the body so that the opponent would adjust his guard and expose his head Tyson's hook uppercut combination was a variation of this that resulted into multiple Kos and knocked out here are just a few [Music] but what truly made this tactic effective was how words used in tandem with de Manos angled footwork having already stepped inside and squared up his hips with his opponents Tyson would step in even deeper d'amato shifting and changing both himself and his opponent into a southpaw position with each now having their right legs forward here's a great example of a beautiful knockout that's almost moved for moved the sequence Tyson drilled in a previous clip this technique is startling to opponents used to fighting with only one stance and resulted in multiple chaos for Tyson the beauty of these drills is that they all build on each other blending together to fully utilize one of the most unique combat systems ever created Tyson used a model system to seamlessly close the distance square up his hips to his opponents brutalize them on the inside and cache them with powerful attacks as they tried to retreat it's a phenomenal example of creating complexity through simple principles if you would like to learn more about Tyson's footwork you can check out my book for Quinn's fights or check out power of the pros to learn more about generating power in your own strikes from the modern martial artist this has been David Christopher wishing you happy travels [Music]

Channel: The Modern Martial Artist

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Length: 6min 40sec (400 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 19 2019