The Boxer from Turkey

This is a nice demonstration of what I call a low functioning group where they attack as individuals, greatly reducing the effectiveness and relevance of the group’s numbers.

For the individual’s part, he was doing what came naturally to him, that is, he backed away from the danger to get a clear field of vision so that he could see who was coming at him and to give himself some time to prepare, so he could measure each attack.

Have a look at the video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7X6WyjzXK8

How many people were actually attacking him and who started the fight? From what I can see there were three attackers overall but there were only two guys really after him for most of the battle:

• The boxer threw the first punch at a guy with a beard (call him person A)
• Then a guy in a white shirt (person B) came at him throwing a right punch which misses and his momentum cause him to stumble forward
• Another guy (person C) throws a kick that misses and also takes a swing and doesn’t really connect
• The white shirt (B) returns and gets hit by a left hook from the boxer and goes down
• Boxer then hits (C) with a right punch and (C) goes down, and he does not participate any further in the battle.
• Boxer pushes person (A) off and then backs away to get some distance and assumes a fighting stance
• (A) comes at the boxer and tries to throw a punch which falls short and he overbalances into the boxer and gets shoved to the ground, and the boxer backs away again.
• White shirt (B) returns again and aims a kick at the boxer but (B) is being held back by someone who has his shirt and luckily a big right punch from the boxer misses (B) mainly because the guy still holding his shirt changed his trajectory from that which the boxer was measuring.
• White shirt (B) then takes a sort of running leap at the boxer and runs into a left jab from the boxer and falls badly and hits his head, knocking him out.
• (A) then comes at the boxer again and gets hit with a left jab and goes down.

As always with group work, train safely and under the supervision of a qualified instructor.