I am afraid u r indeed "dead wrong" using your words. Not only was he not in the act of throwing a punch balboa was merely flexing which means a male dominance display designed to elevate social status in the context of a verbal situation. Dominant displays are meant to actually substitute for physical violence.
Shilling himself admitted that he only saw balboa as flexing and he hs never accused balboa of looking as if he were about to punch him and that he had to intercept that incoming punch with his own first. Instead schilling was saying therefore that the mere flex by balboa was enough to put him in fear - a flex from a 150 pound flabby inebriated person much shorter than he is.
Therefore all your speculation about balboa being about to punch is a non starter. Worse u even speculate about there being possibly a knife and knuckle duster when there was nothing of the sort happening here. The possibility of there beig suh weapons clearly never entered shilling's mind because it was shilling and not balboa who closed distance! That fact again was confirmed by schilling saying that balboa flexed at him which clearly shows he never contemplated an attack of any kind let alone an armed attack.
To add insult to injury u even suggested that balboa should be charged with 3 or 4 offences! For what??? Shouting hey after being shoved and leanig forward with chin stuck in the air and leaving himself completely open and unprotected in order to argue verbally wth schilling?
The fsct is the clip shows clearly balboa mare himself more vulnerable when he lened forward and he made it almost impossible to throw a punch which his weight forward off balance leaning forward his chin in the air and his chest stuck out and his arms swept behind his torso. Any attempt to punch would have been seen by schilling a mile away and would have been a weak arm punch without any real force - certainly nothing that would faze a profighrer.
Furthermore from the moment schilliling turned around to when he punched Balboa his movements were smooth and not interrupted and Unbroken. He didn't flinch or react at all to Balboa's movement.instead he even had time to execute a stepping right hook and just before that when he reached balboa he rocked his weight on his left foot and poised his right foot on its balls.this move is preparatory to a stepping punch most likely a stepping right hook. This is further evidence thr the right hook was premeditated m and not caused by balboa's own movement.
