Sparring Strategies
- Sparring Strategies
- Sparring and Chess
- Fighter classifications
- Kicker
- Puncher
- Combination Fighter
- Counter Fighters
- Sniper
- Faker
- Shorter Opponent
- Taller Opponent
- Out of Control Opponents
- Bob and Weaver
- Runner
- Persistent Jabber
- Southpaw
- Aggressive Opponent
- Blitzer
- Wait and Counter Fighter
- Very Fast Opponent
- Lightweight vs. Heavyweight Opponents
- Total Package Opponents
- Strategies to use if you are a lead fighter
- Strategies if you are a counter fighter
- Sources
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Lightweight vs. Heavyweight Opponents
Each wants what the other has. Lightweight fighters tend to have good skills, mobility, speed, and endurance. This is partially due to the circulatory system, which has to work harder to circulate oxygen in the heavier person. Thus, heavier fighters are generally less conditioned. Although they may be fast for their size, they rely mostly on their reach and power and are often not as conditioned enough in the abs and lower back to allow for crisp, quick footwork, body angling, head movement, etc.
If you take a lighter person and give him or her a classic heavyweight characteristic such as power, you get a Roberto (Hands of Stone) Duran. He had the quickness of a lightweight plus the knockout power of a heavyweight. If you take a heavier fighter and give him the skills, mobility, speed, and conditioning of a lightweight, you get a Muhammad Ali, a powerful puncher with the quickness of a lightweight.