How do i keep an aggressive boxer away while he s trying to close the distance?

Question

for example how come roy jone jr couldnt keep glen johnson away and keep a comfortable distance like he wanted... ?

Answer 1

First make sure you have a decent jab. the jab is the most effective way to keep distance, agrevate, and score points in a fight. and also make your self a moving target, don't stand still to long. RJJ had great hand speed, but never really used his jab because he relied so much on reflexes and agility. plus standing on the ropes and making yourself a target is not gonna help any boxer.

Answer 2

Always make him pay with your jab.  If this doesn't stop an aggressive fighter, hit him with a one two and then tie him up.  

Watch the Buster Douglas vs Tyson fight.  Douglas used a very basic and effective strategy to deal with a fighter of this nature.

Answer 3

Like every poster above me said, you should jab. Look at the Floyd Mayweather/Ricky Hatton fight.Mayweather as able to use the other boxer's aggressiveness against him by making walk into jabs and power punches. Another important thing is footwork, footwork lets you back away and sidestep when your oppentent charges in. It also confuses your opponent, giving you the oppurtunitiy to tag him. Paul Williams also bobs and weaves(well, he didn't in the quintana fight but he clearly wasn't himself), but look at the Margarito fight, everytime Margarito tried to charge in he bobbed and weaved and contorted his body so that all those punches Margrito threw pretty much missed.

Answer 4

Simple, always stay to his left, or away from his power hand.

Throw your jab at least 200 times a day, let him come, let him move towards you and boom throw that left and move, an aggressive fighter may become over anxious, watch his feet, if he is leaning in a bit more, throw that left and follow it with your right, don't open up on him right away, let him come to you, let him be the one to make the mistake.

Answer 5

by being aggressive yourself and fighting the fight the way you want it to go and not letting the other person take control. go to a boxing gym, get a trainer, start training, and when you start sparing you will get experience and knowledge on how to do this in a fight.

Answer 6

Work your jab!  I tell newbies all the time that the jab is the most important punch in the sport.... not to be confused with most powerful. If you're working the jab correctly, then you're giving something for your opponent to think about before charging in. Either he is going to slow up and be a little more cautious or he is going to continue being wreckless as you are tattooing jabs on him and adding points.

That was the problem with Roy Jones, during his entire career. Jones didn't rely on using his jab too much, which was fine with the competition he was fighting early in his career. As Jones gets older, not as fast and fights tougher competition, his jabbing should become more important. Glen Johnson is already tough enough, but Jones didn't help matters by not giving Johnson enough to think or worry about, by not establishing his jab, which I've already mentioned he didn't use often in his career.

Answer 7

JAB! JAB! JAB! JAB!  

Work that JAB!  It is one of THE if not THE most important punch!