Holly Holm's Overhand Inverted Punch

[Better Every Day]

Overhand inverted punch - underused gem
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015

http://dandjurdjevic.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/overhand-inverted-punch-underused-gem.html

One of the techniques I noticed frequently in the Rousey vs. Holm fight was the overhand inverted punch. In karate I suppose it would be an otoshi ura zuki (an inverted dropping punch).

Holm used it time and time again to devastating effect - both moving to the outside of Rousey's lead (something I'll examine in a moment), and sometimes just square down the middle on the inside, as shown in the three pictures to the right. However it lands, the technique is devastating. It's a very useful punch precisely because it is so unexpected.

 

[frandie2b]

This is what happens when a fighter with great boxing skills fights someone with average stand up.

 

[DanTheWolfman.com]

11:45 here my old sd vids.....

what style of Karate teaches this?

 

[Roca]

This is what happens when a fighter with great boxing skills fights someone with terrible, amateur, essentially non-existant stand up.

ftfy

 

[The Don]

They looked like straight lefts to me, TBH.

 

[Zefram Cochrane]

good read

 

[Erick Silva]

They looked like straight lefts to me, TBH.

Me too...

Basic Straigh Left...

 

[TheGrouch]

That accuracy tho!! #HollyForever

 

[Dolomite]

This is what happens when a fighter with great boxing skills fights someone with average stand up.

/thread

It's called a corkscrew or a twist - and it can turn your face into mush.

 

[wallyboxngvsmma]

She was sticking her with them beams!

 

[KantoTerror]

Holm displayed a lot of boxing in the fight. Whenever she sees her range, she steps in with a lead left straight...if Ronda gets in to throw a punch, she side steps and throw a counter right hook. or she ducks under a punch and resets...

 

[The Don]

Me too...

Basic Straigh Left...

The left that dethroned the queen!

 

[Torrid]

For some reason it rubs me the wrong way whenever someone wants to attach a superfluous name to movements of striking arts.

 

[DanTheWolfman.com]

if this thread continues,and frame grab of Liddell/overeem Pride KO forehead punch would be nice

 

[AshiharaFan]

Two things:

1). In Karate that "overhand inverted punch" is called Uraken Mawashi Uchi, not that other name in the quote (otoshi ura zuki )

2). I don't think that is punch Holly is using. I think she was corkscrewing her straight lefts. Corkscrewing a straight punch right before impact adds a lot more hot sauce to it.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

If I wouldn't have seen these freeze frame pics I never would have thought they looked like the bombs Igor and Fedor threw. In the fight they looked like they were going right down the pipe.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

reminds me of fedors punches

 

[KlNG]

reminds me of fedors punches

That's what I was going to say..Looks like one of those casting strikes.