Boxing

A Professional Hand Wrapping

In Canada, at least, an amateur boxer is supposed to be provided with certain handwraps (bandages) when he/she arrives at a competition. They are allowed a very short piece of tape that is used primarily to hold the bandages in place on the wrist.

In professional boxing, the rules are a bit different. There, the boxer is allowed to basically make a cast out of tape and gauze that not only protects his knuckles, but also serves to turn his fists into hard mallets. The actual impact area isn't allowed to be hardened, but the entire wrist and a good portion of the fist can be made rock solid which is great for protecting the small bones in the hand.

In this video, you'll not only learn how to wrap a professional boxer's hands, but you'll get some insight into what happens when one punches someone without handwraps. Keith McKnight almost ended his boxing career as you'll see and it took reconstructive surgery on his hand to allow him to keep going.

What is a Six Series?

This page will show you how to build the pinnacle of the combinations - the 6 series boxing combination. There's actually a 7 series as well, but I'll get to that a bit later on in this article. As with the rest of the series, my terminology is just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 6 series combination, it consists of all six types of punches.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a 1-2-3-4-5-6 (jab, straight right, left hook, right hook (slam), left uppercut, right uppercut) or a 1-3-2-5-4-6 (jab, left hook, straight right, left uppercut, right hook (slam), right uppercut), you are throwing a six series combination because it consists of six different punches. If you throw a 1-1-2-3-4-5-6 or a 1-3-1-2-4-5-6, you are still throwing a six series combination even though you have thrown seven punches, because they consist of only six types of punches. Make sense?

Like all series, six series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1-1B-3-2-5-4-6 is still a six series even though it kind of looks like there are seven diferent types of punches -- the jabs are still jabs - just different targets.

What is a Five Series?

This page will show you how to build 5 series boxing combinations. That's just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 5 series combination, it consists of five types of punches.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a 1-2-3-4-5 (jab, straight right, left hook, right hook (slam), left uppercut) or a 1-3-2-5-4 (jab, left hook, straight right, left uppercut, right hook (slam)), you are throwing a five series combination because it consists of five different punches. If you throw a 1-1-2-3-4-5 or a 1-3-1-2--45, you are still throwing a five series combination even though you have thrown six punches, because they consist of only five types of punches. Make sense?

Like all series, five series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1-1B-3-2-5-4 is still a five series even though it kind of looks like there are six diferent types of punches -- the jabs are still jabs - just different targets.

What is a Four Series?

This page will show you how to build 4 series boxing combinations. That's just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 4 series combination, it consists of four types of punches.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a 1-2-3-4 (jab, straight right, left hook, right hook (slam)) or a 1-3-2-5 (jab, left hook, straight right, left uppercut), you are throwing a four series combination because it consists of four different punches. If you throw a 1-1-2-3-4 or a 1-3-1-2-5, you are still throwing a four series combination even though you have thrown five punches, because they consist of only four types of punches. Make sense?

Like all series, four series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1-1B-3-2-5 is still a four series even though it kind of looks like there are five diferent types of punches -- the jabs are still jabs - just different targets.

What is a Three Series?

This page will show you how to build 3 series boxing combinations. That's just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 3 series combination, it consists of three types of punches.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a 1-2-3 (jab, straight right, left hook) or a 1-3-2 (jab, left hook, straight right), you are throwing a three series combination because it consists of three different punches. If you throw a 1-1-2-3 or a 1-3-1-2, you are still throwing a three series combination even though you have thrown four punches, because they consist of only three types of punches. Make sense?

Like all series, three series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1-1B-3-2 is still a three series even though it kind of looks like there are four diferent types of punches -- the jabs are still jabs - just different targets.

What is a Two Series?

This page will show you how to build 2 series boxing combinations. That's just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 2 series combination, it consists of only two types of punches.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a 1-2 (jab, straight right) or a 1-3 (jab, left hook), you are throwing a two series combination because it consists of different punches. If you throw a 1-1-2 or a 1-3-1, you are still throwing a two series combination even though have thrown three punches, because they consist of only two types of punches. Make sense?

Like all series, two series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1B-3-1 is still a two series even though it kind of looks like there are three diferent types of punches -- the jabs are still jabs - just different targets.

What is a Series?

This page will show you how to build 1 series boxing combinations. That's just my fancy way of saying that when you throw a 1 series combination, it consists of only one type of punch.

So, for instance, if you're instructed to throw a double jab or triple jab - you are throwing a one series combination because it consists only of the jab. If you throw a double right or triple right - again, you are throwing a one series combination because it consists of only one type of punch.

To note, one series combinations also include punches thrown to both the body and head - so a 1B-1-1B is still a one series even though it kind of looks like there are two diferent types of punches -- they are both still jabs, just different targets.

John Broughton

The first thing resembling boxing rules was put forth in 1743 by John "Jack" Broughton, a bareknuckle fighter in Britain. This set of 7 rules would eventually be expanded to 29, and become known as the London Prize Ring Rules. They would govern boxing and more specifically bareknuckle prizefighting for the next 100 years. These rules were still a long way from the boxing rules of today and were geared more to a hybrid of fighting more resembling MMA than boxing. Like nearly all sports, a set of rules is drawn up and refined over time.