Proper thumb placement in fist?

[Yanphuv]

I've been wondering about this for a while now. Since we use gloves in boxing with the thumb to the side. Should my thumb be over my index and middle finger or just my index? Personally I just put my thumb over my index, but I feel like I'll bang my thumb really hard if I punch something or someone bare fisted. What do you think is best and what do you use?

By the way, my thumb placement is the same as Ali in this picture :

 

[lts5025]

Close your eyes and make a fist without thinking about it. Open your eyes and take notice of your thumb placement. Make your fist like that from then on.

 

[KyleInAction]

Don't listen to that ^, and search the forum. This has been covered many times.

 

[The One True]

always have your thumbs sticking out while making a fist, that's how all the gangstaz roll.

 

[Yanphuv]

Don't listen to that ^, and search the forum. This has been covered many times.

Link me? I can't even find one thread about this.

 

[KyleInAction]

... here is a thread you started in October about this same thing ...

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f11/proper-thumb-placement-bare-fist-1873101/

 

[Francis Rossi]

always have your thumbs sticking out while making a fist, that's how all the gangstaz roll.

I thought they put their thumbs inside their fists, to protect them?

 

[Mumrik]

... here is a thread you started in October about this same thing ...

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f11/proper-thumb-placement-bare-fist-1873101/

What the... a poster with Alzheimer's?

 

[Shuque]

... here is a thread you started in October about this same thing ...

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f11/proper-thumb-placement-bare-fist-1873101/

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