Winky Wright's Defense

[Sinister]

I wonder if McCallum would have developed more of a guard had he faced taller opponents. The Milton McCrory fight sticks out. McCrory fought the most disciplined and technically sharp fight of his career in the early rounds, and forced McCallum into making wild moves, by his standards, to close the distance.

Maybe it was a combination of McCrory's reach and his clean, untelegraphed punching, but McCallum probably would have had an easier time if kept a higher guard in that fight.

The idea was to break Milton down to the body. That's what happened. It's harder to attack the body when your gloves are up at your forehead. Mike's style was based more on upper-body movement and slight dips, to create the angles to hit the body. Milton did well because Milton was a fantastic, and today very overlooked, Fighter.

holy shit really ? 10-13 rds of pads with 10 second breaks ??? Max speed.....max power too ?

Shit man dont take this the wrong way but i just cant see that. Not that it isnt happening.....i just dont see it.
You go all out from start to finish ? halfway through its gotta get sloppy or does he get u to throw limited punches n work defense in between ?

It's not all-out from beginning to end. But most of it is full speed and power. If you need time to get the mechanics of a combination, he'll do a couple slow runs, but then he'll want it like 7 or 8 times at full speed. The offense is tied with the defense, there's no separation of the two.

But yeah, he basically likes to run you until you can't breathe, and can't hold up your arms anymore. If he thinks you're capable of it. It's because that was a big part of how he used to train for long Fights.

 

[5acrossYOeye]

smitty is the truth. i love all of his work.

i like what winky said about, you have to think in there and not just throw punches.

 

[Emiliaan]

So shelling up it's like a static crazy monkey defense right?But if you listen to someone who teaches CM defense(rodney king) ,he says always move your hands on your head,don't make the mistake to keep them static.Which one is better?

 

[dtravis92]

I think you need to move your arms a little bit in mma to close the gap that the small gloves could get through. I don't do mma but I move my arms slightly instead of keeping them static, but i don't raise my elbows up to defend all the shots. If you watch Rodney's sparring 101 video then you can see he doesn't really swing his arms around a lot, so i basically just try to copy how his style in the sparring 101 dvd.

 

[NuTzOnSwOll]

He mentions it every now and again, but he'd rather not cover up. Mike prefers to actively blend offense and defense, so the opponent can't distinguish one from the other. .

could you elaborate on that ?