Professional boxing is all about thinking on your feet in there in the heat of the battle and strategies while important, are not everything.
If someone in a build up to a fight thinks he can anticipate what his opponent is going to do by mapping possible paths of attack or action of an opponent, that can essentially go completely out the window in the middle of a fight anyway when he gets hit with something he doesn’t see.
if you look at much of the big fights this year, there is often feints used to draw out a reaction from the opponent and you could liken it to reverse psychology many in live time in a live prize fight.
Important for new fans to boxing to know what they are in the first place.
Boxing training for feints can be done in the gym like anything else.
The Art of Feinting: Setting Traps as a Weapon
A fighter might dummy a jab, as in, not throw the jab fully at all and just motion with his fist or his left shoulder (if a right handed orthodox fighter) that he was going to throw it, and instead throw a lead right hand to confuse his opponent with something he didn’t see coming.
This is setting a simple trap as a weapon in a bait and switch type scenario in boxing and can work well in professional boxing in these days.
Again, feints are maybe not used enough in professional boxing these days but can be used more.
That’s where changing and adjusting a game plan mid fight during the actual fight itself comes in and is most important, as that can often separate the very best fighters at the highest level of professional boxing from contenders.
There has to be total unpredictability and subtlety at the highest level of professional boxing and fighting.
