Once you've mastered the basic boxing punches, you may want to consider adding some other more advanced boxing techniques and punches into your repertoire. The bolo punch is just such a technique. It is not used very often and for reasons you'll soon learn, but if mastered can give you options in the ring. You'll be pretty hard pressed to find a lot of professional boxers who use it and probably even fewer amateur boxers. But, if you look hard enough...
Low Blow - Round 11
A low blow is any punch that falls below the beltline. In other words, if you punch someone in the gonads, the privates, the family jewels, the place where the sun don't shine, etc... you have just given a low blow.
In boxing, you get three hits before a point is deducted. It is an illegal hit and when it happens, your opponent has up to 5 minutes to get himself ready to fight again (at least in professional boxing).
A butt, or head butt, is an intentional use of the head to inflict damage on your opponent. An accidental butt lacks the intentional part that equation. In other words, the head butt is an accident.
So who cares about an occasional butt? Well, head butts both accidental and intentional are the causes of a lot of stopped fights due to the cuts that get opened up because of them.
Your noggin is hard and if you slam it against a nice soft fleshy eye, crushing the tissue above your eye against the eye socket, a deep gash can be opened up instantly.
Then you not only have an accidental butt, but you also get to see what is referred to as a bleeder. Where an intentional head butt is illegal, a butt that is ruled accidental can actually win you the fight. Just ask Holyfield about it in his fight against Hasim Rahman. In that fight, an accidental butt by Holyfield led to a referee stoppage forcing them to go to the scorecards and low and behold Holyfield was in front.
A bleeder is a boxer who is prone to cuts, scratches, and other injuries that typically result in blood. Could be a trickle, could be a gusher, but in all instances the bleeder is a boxer who is known for his ability to bleed.
In all fairness, it's not always the boxer's fault. Genetically they could have issues such as deviated septums that place the vein inside the nose in a position that it gets cut very easily.
From BBC: Is boxing legal homicide?There is the other end of the spectrum though as well. Bleeders tend to be those boxers that like to lead with their face and lack a defensive game. It's only logical - you get hit enough and you have a better chance of being cut.
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