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Bivol has become really popular in my gym since his last fight. Great that more amateurs are starting to focus on styles like that rather than trying to copy Floyd Mayweather for heavens sake

An underrated aspect of Bivol is his multiple uses of the jab - blocking vision/distance, probing to keep their defense up, power jab, circle jab, feints, use to push opponent, keep opponent at bay…. It’s brilliant.

I'm so glad you covered Bivol. The only man to ever (controversially) beat Mayweather, Serafim Todorov, Is from my home town in Bulgaria and he used the same principles. I also have some experience with the style. There are some really nifty tricks that most coaches would never teach. The squared up, wide stance with weight on the back foot is done because either hand can become lead or power hand. You will sometimes see Bivol turn his right shoulder forward, effectively turning him into a south paw without changing his stance. This gives a massive variety of offensive options using only 2 straight punches. Furthermore, hooks and uppercuts also come from the same high guard hand position and utilise the same kind of body motion as the straights, meaning there is no tell on which punch you're throwing. Weight stays on the back foot while the front foot pressures and stalks. This is a trick we use to move into range without the opponent even noticing. You take a sneaky step forward but keep your body over the back leg. Then you only need to shift your body weight foward slightly and you're in range, shift slightly back and you're out of range and ready to counter. It's an extremely efficient style, aimed for maximum effect with minimum force exerted and risks taken. The key is win the last exchange and then hold your ground, ALWAYS maintaining your stance, stay loose, catch them coming in with straight shots, and a HARD jab constantly working to disrupt your opponent's game plan. The jab needs to have stopping power, that's why it's thrown with the left shoulder pulled back. Vary your jabs, First to the head, then fake head and go body, then fake body and come up with a left hook (that's why Bivol drops his lead hand, it's a setup).

When I look at Dmitry boxing in a gym, shadow boxing particularly, he looks well beatable! But when he’s boxing competitively? Wow! His boxing intelligence is what makes him shine! Boxing since the age of six, and literally thousands of rounds sparring, along with some 300 fights! Not forgetting his extremely good attitude to his craft! What a guy👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Excellent video Fran. Bivol is very underrated for such a master of his craft. I'm glad that Klitchko didn't manage to get Bivol banned before the Canelo fight, even though he tried his hardest to get the fight cancelled just because Bivol is Russian by birth.

Great video Fran. A good exercise to show boxers the benefit of a high guard is to get them to put the high guard up and just pepper it with a couple straight shots while telling them to focus on keeping their eyes open while blocking the shots. Then tell them to put their hands down and do the same with the straight shots just falling short of their face and show them how naturally you will close your eyes and wince, thus affecting your effectiveness in a fight. This has helped me show fighters the benefits of the high guard and it also has a calming effect on the fighters as they now feel more secure with that guard in the ring, knowing they can block shots with confidence.

Hello! Thanks for the good video! Sorry for my english - google translate) I'm from Russia and a longtime Bivol fan. Bivol's style is for the most part the school of coach Isaev. It is somewhat different from the classical Russian (USSR) school of boxing, primarily in the emphasis on developing a sense of distance and working at a long distance. Another difference is the specific explosive strikes. To help you see this specific style and training, I suggest watching a few training videos of the Isaev school, in the 90s and in the present. Unfortunately, Isaev's coach has already died ( Links in next comment.

Bivol definitely one of the best around at the moment. I hope you can do Pirog one day. Slipped under the radar due to injury; otherwise, I think he would have had an exceptional career.

Bivol really mastered the pendulum step boxing style, also loved the analysis.

Fantastic breakdown Fran. He really is a joy to watch!

Really enjoyed this one coach thank you! I have really enjoyed watching Bivol fight and Im glad you covered him

Great analyze, I needed that. Great input specially regarding him maintaining a squared up stance while having the wide stands, that make his lead jab so effective and powerful from naturally turning hip, thanks for sharing 🙂

Great breakdown, I’ve been studying his game. Incredible to watch. Thank you a lot

Great vid Fran! Been training for about 8 months now and after observing so many different styles and fighters I've recently found in the last few months that the Eastern style boxers really resonate with me and my own personal body mechanics and physiology. Not many frills (except for maybe Loma, lol) very direct and a focus on basic rigid structures while maintaining mobility and fluidity. Absolutely love to watch Bivol, Artur, and Usyk work. Thanks again.

Thank you, enjoyed watching.

You did a great job explaining how his style works. Glad I watched this. Thank you.

Thank you very much for the amazing analysis Sir.

So much value, thankyou for sharing.

Great stuff, Fran! great video about an absolutely mesmerizing fighter

Brilliant analysis you can see how passionate you are for his style. Simple really is best when done right!!!

Great video. Honestly would love a follow up or a series on Bivol. Would be great if you could list some specific drills to do to emulate his style

absolutely brilliant analysis! i would love to hear you talk more about bivol. in particular, the various jabs and hooks he throws, his changing lead hand position from high, to mid, to low, how he changes levels by what looks like bringing the rear leg out while bending the front knee... or anything else you'd like to add or talk about. the bit about the bladed lower body and the squared upper body as well as the power jab were absolute game changers for me! thank you so much!

Thanks coach for this great analysis. You’re really good at observing these little details and explain to us very well!

Glad to see you are still at it Coach Fran. From fighting and coaching solely the Gloves/PAL and Amateurs I have really grown to love the Eastern European ethos. These are men whom even the best like Loma, Usyk, Beterbiev and Bivol end up fighting as an amateur till they are almost 30, wracking up a ton of experience and gaining National recognition. I too am a big fan of the extra wide stance as it give you so many options, especially with feinting and on defense. You can lean back altering your opponents perception of range and leading him to come in for a shot while all you have to do to counter is bring that weight forward again without changing the front foot placement. Face shielding, slick lateral movement to open up angles, using the hook as a distraction to get the uppercut in. Eastern European/Cuban boxing is great. God Bless and please dont ever stop coaching. Right on about everyone wanting to keep that lead hand low, especially at midrange. It is an awful habit so many guys do these days, never wanting to keep their high guard up.

These analysis videos are really interesting 👍👍

Excellent study coach.

great work coach. simple, straight forward analysis. quality stuff.

Thanks for the work you put in Coach!!! I would love a Bivol drills like the Usyk videos you did last time. I really appreciate the content you put out. Simple, direct and effective the perfect stuff for all levels of boxing.

More than 20 years ago, with my 14yo son we joined a Fight Gym on the northern beaches in Sydney. He went on to become state welterweight amateur champion and a jujitsu gold medal winner. I live in another country but have continued to train to a boxing routine - sometimes in gyms, often solo. My sporting background is swimming and rowing - boxing is a skills based exercise that doesn't require much equipment or other people - at home i train with 14oz gloves, floor to ceiling bag and 2kg weights - for me, boxing based training is the best exercise rountine i have ever undertaken.

Thank you for the great break down

Bivol made me a boxing fan again.

thanks for the video! you were saying its hard to get your fighters to keep their guard up and the biggest reason we put our guard down is to get more vision. After I learned this it was easier for me to mentally keep track of when I was dropping my guard.

Coach is Super Quick and Smooth!

you are the best man, this video is pure gold,I have an amateur fight tomorrow and you helped me consolidating my style respect from Italy 🇮🇹💪🏼

Incredible video, subscribed after 5 minutes, can't wait to watch your other videos!!

The gym is slowly progressing.. Looks good

Brilliant video

Brilliant Fran, a great one for newbies to learn from

you're still my favorite boxing youtuber to watch and listen to coach!!!! keep bringing the sport to us who wouldn't know squat about boxing otherwise!!!!!

great video

Happy new year coach, great video as per. Bivol’s been my favourite fight for a while now, criminally underrated but I think people are starting to wake up and realise how good he is. My 14yr old cousin has just started boxing so I’ll be sharing the video with him, as you say, any amateur should want to emulate him but I think if you paired your points with clips of him doing the point you’re talking about it would help even more. Thanks for the vids

Thanks for that. Bivol is a fascinating athlete, and I need noticers to show me some of why that is.

Thank you coach!

Thanks coach You are the best! Wish you were in Texas I would come train with you in person!

Always love watching your analysis, Fran lad. 👊🏻👍🏻👏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱

What I love is his left hook when he retreats always covering a counterattack. He’s so loose with his left hand.

Bivol is the boxing school of Nikolai Isaev

subscribed! amazing teaching!

After I completed the Boxing Training Foundation, I watched your old long range hook videos, and it seems that Bivol does this exactly as you explained it. He seems to really confuse his opponents with mixing up the jab and the long-range hook with just a subtle difference in trajectory to sneak around the guard. Great video.

tremendous video

Bivol takes you to the Realm of Straight Punches. Straight Power!

Bravo

Bivol its so so clean when he fight perfecto tecnique

Love your videos, and I think that you are currently one of the best channels for boxers. Do you currently train any fighters that actually compete? If no, were you training fighters in the past?

Bivol should do more fights, he is so good and ppl just started to see him, but he should fight more, get more spotlight, and consolidate his legacy. He should also learn how to be popular, learn English etc... Boxing world is missing so much by not knowing and seeing Bivol.

gracial al subtitulo puedo entender lo que explica ...muy buen video saludos desde lima peru

Loved this! Definitely hope to see more drill-based videos on fighters like Loma, Usyk, and Bivol so we can practice at home. No other boxers intrigue me in the slightest compared to them.

So true without amateur you don't get pro boxers

Brilliant thanks, I'll have to do my homework on Dmitry! Big fan of the old Soviet style of boxing and the styles you see from places like Cuba. How is the gym getting on Fran? Hope all is well.

Super Fran

Could you make a specific drills video, like how you did with Usyk? Thanks for the awesome content! :)

He also uses his wide and defensive stance (keeping his weight on his back leg whilst being on his back toes) to allow more fluid movement in his upper body. This leg is used for leverage in small bouncy movements giving him much easier and faster use of defence techniques like the pull etc. I must also add his high guard is impenetrable. Although I do wonder why people don't go to the body more with him? Maybe he keeps the distance too well

Flody too. Have fundamental, said when he was young they 1st taught feet than hands

When it was announced Bivol was to fight Canelo I had no idea who Bivol was, I went out and started watching videos of Bivol, after watching a couple of them, tbh I was scared for Canelo because this dude is so hard to catch clean. I was not surprised by the results of that fight. Now I watch more of Bivol videos than Canelo. He has such an impeccable style.

I would say, don’t be throwing while moving. Bivol stops/settles then throws, it’s fast but he does. He is in a solid stance when he throws his punch. Ali even, when he exchanged he would be in stance and throw then move. You don’t want to be caught with a punch while on your toes or your feet are off the ground, even if it’s on the gloves. Bivol is very patient!! He chooses his shots, he doesn’t let his opponents choose his shots. He throws punches that will land and doesn’t when they won’t.

Could you please do Artur Beterbiev next? Thank you!

Hello Sir. Question: what is the main change that Bivol had to make for a professional style from Olympic boxing? I always wonder what is the main problem. Is that energy distribution? I mean he can't jump with pendulum for 12 rounds so he add more frontal position for a traditional squared stance?

Bivol seems to have a really good sense for when his opponents are tired and when they're recovered and just baiting as well (his radar was perfect against Canelo). He's a very smart/focused fighter The fight against Beterbiev will be legendary if they get around to it.

Comparing hands down in range to drunk driving had me laughing so hard. I 100% agree emulate Bivol. Proof that you can win fights with good conditioning and a good 1 2.

This is absolute gold. The part about the body position is interesting as John Jones does the same in MMA, turning himself into a two handed fighter rather than having a dominant hand. The slight turn of the body also seems to help get all of the slack out of the body so he can kick instantly from either side.

Maybe you could do a vid on how to counter this style? I mean, I love Bivol, I don't want his opponents to know how to beat him, but I am also curious what can be done to defeat this style?

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Fran can you please do a breakdown video of Gervonta Davis his style is becoming more popular and I want to learn it

What do you make of the advice to “stay off the centre line” Frano?? To open up angles.. My coach told me this last week. I think it really helps…

Bivol / usyk style is very exhausting, you got to have a stamina of marathon runner to keep fighting that way😮

Can you do a video on Charles burley

really like canals style tho. do you think there's any way to make it applicable?

Willie pep is smiling down on you. 😊

Bivol and Usyk 💯🤺

Bivol has perfect jeb and body punches of left hand . He is the King of Jeb

I’ve always said it. Bivol wins because of his footwork😎🎯

About canelo can you make a video about his style very good video 😄👍

Mate, how do you condition yourself to last 3 rounds with this pendulum style. I can barely last a round using this..😭

i m a huge fan of Bivol movement/footwork style. Russian style, which has many thing in common with Cuban style imo. If I was 30 years younger I would definitely adopt this fighting style!! However I recognize that it is a ,way too much stamina consuming, style which requires a top condition in order to perform consistently for 12 rounds, like Bivol. Only few pro boxers I ve seen through the years would be able to do that for 36 fighting minutes. On the other hand Mexican style is less demanding, in case you are willing to stay in the pocket and absorb more damage of course. Just some thoughts. Tell if you think otherwise

I learnt more in one minute from the Russian school of boxing.

Hello coach, do you think its possible to adapt this style to fight an opponent taller than you ?

How do you fight someone who has long arms like 7’5 inches longer and big hands and bone density like 5 times thicker ?

This style consume a lot of energy.. in case wanna master it you have to need tons of cardio

Fran, does Bivol have a pendulum-based technique? I can’t tell. Excellent lesson!

I saw him fight 2 years ago and said on the spot he would beat Canelo. They called me madman. Canelo needs to to be feed a steady diet of glass chinned British Fighters.

If you check his fight Vs radchenko it's beautiful

Dmitry Bivol is the best technician in boxing history, and the Soviet school of boxing is the best in the world.

Don't you think that bivol's weakness in his style would be body shots?

Great advice about not using Pro styles in amateurs. 😏🤣🤣. I used to train with an amateur. Who had that pro style. When sparring or fighting an inexperienced am. He looked incredible. But when fighting an elite am. He got absolutely schooled 🤣🤣🤣

To my observation..every now and than some new style comes and becomes famous....but after sometime it becomes obsolete... I will suggest not to copy anyone style... have your own style...you are different...your height body,mind,your reach,your favourite punches,your reflexes,your speed will decide what suits you. Tyson,Ali,lomachanko,now bivol and so many others developed their own style and became famous.... Ofcourse one should new styles but see to it wether it suits you or not. For small guy bivol style won't work samething for tall guy tyson style won't work. One should learn basics of boxing like distance management,blocking,parring,ducking,footwork,proper guard4,hand spéed,reflexes, pinching combinations,ring generalship,fighting spirit and than see what suits you,develope your ownstyle.... don't become follower but become innovator. Coach hope you agree with me

Love the fact you talked about people trying to be like Canelo in the Amateurs, because I find so many people doing that and they just get tagged and tagged and tagged. One guy I know litteraly goes on about how his "style is the low hands shoulder roll" and any time I've sparred him I just pop jabs, doubled and tripped up in his face because he insists on walking me down with his hand by his waist because "it's his style" 😂 I used to be a lot more heavy footed and I'd fight rather low with knees bent and try to land a left body shot, but I started to adjust my technique a while back now and I began to use the pendulum step, long guard and lots of feints with most of my punches being straight. This style works so well in the Amateurs because of the fact that it helps you to land more punches in a shorter space of time, rather than what I used to do, which was more like a sort of burst puncher style only throwing big shots when I saw an opening. I used to be so negative with punch output because of that, but now I will throw shots even if they hit the gloves or arms and although it took some getting used to with the constant bouncing on the heels/ankles, after a while it started to pay off massively! I think the main thing with this style would be the ability to punch while going forward or backward. When I shadow box I even just walk and punch both ways to get used to it and it definitely helps a lot.

Lomanchenko?

His style very much remind me of Wladimir klitschkos

So you can’t use this style very much if you’re the shorter fighter?