Quiz – Your Two Cents Needed

By Paul Strauss:

(Pick an Answer and support it).

1.) Which is the most important punch in boxing?.

a. jab b. bolo c. left hook d. right cross e. uppercut

Helpful hints: (Not so fast) Think Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, or Jack Dempsey, Joe Frazier, or maybe Mike Tyson

2.) After learning how to make a fist and establishing a proper stance, what is the next most important thing to learn?

a. footwork b. how to shadow box c. defense d. how to punch

Helpful hints: If you don’t know how to do this………nothing else matters much.

3.) Which style of defense is the most effective?

a. peek-a-boo b. footwork c. offense d. slipping e. bobbing and weaving

Helpful hints: Cus D’Mato, Sugar Ray, and Marciano

4.) What is the falling step?

a. a clumsy move b. tripping over opponent’s feet c. power punching d. broken tread

Helping hint: Think power and one of the hardest hitters of all time

5.) What is the power line?

a. a teenager’s cell phone b. a pre-fight stare down c. punch loaded with electricity d. promoters and managers e. simple physics

Helptul hint: Fighter who espoused this technique repeatedly demonstrated its value.

6.) Tall fighters are generally better that short fighters.

True False

Helpful hint: There’s a rule of thumb that applies here.

7.). What is the double shift? .

a. Kirstie Alley’s “Dancing with the Stars” move b. fighting twice on the same day c. a method of closing the distance

d. hand signals from your corner man e. referee’s attempt to break a clinch

Helpful hint: Think Golden Age of Sports

8.) Boxing should use instant replay to avoid missed calls.

True False

Helpful hint: Let’s be objective and provide a little analysis, okay?

9.) Boxing needs to do away with all of the “title belts” and have a single governing body.

True False

Helpful hint: If true, who would be in charge? (No, not Teddy Atlas) If false, why are you happy with the current mess?

10.) Modern day fighters are more skilled than fighters of first half of this century?

True False

Helpful hint: No right answer, but support your preference …. length of fights, numbers of fights, equipment, treatment of injuries, ignoring injuries, etc.