A Rocky Lockridge Tribute
From Oliver at Beatipoli
© 2017 James LaFond
MAR/9/17
From Oliver at Beatipoli, who used my favorite song for this.
The thing to remember about Rocky Lockridge from a small glove or bareknuckle perspective is that his money punch, that overhand right is for the chin only and should only be used on tall men. This punch will break your hand faster than any. However, if you have the shoulders that this little fireplug brought into the ring a generation ago, this could be an open-handed blow to the forehead.
Rocky cycled his lead low, which was fine because he jabbed to the chest.
Jabbing to the chest and then right hooking to the ribs and kidney under his man's jab was really cutch for Lockridge. His style fit the short frame well and was in many ways a throwback to methods of the early gloved boxers.
hate
your trojan whorse
book of nightmares
on the overton railroad
masculine axis
the greatest boxer
under the god of things
predation
beasts of aryas
by the wine dark sea
within leviathan’s craw
the lesser angels of our nature
wife—
the year the world took the z-pill
all-power-fighting
night city
the combat space
orphan nation
logic of steel
the first boxers
songs of aryas
honor among men
the greatest lie ever sold
cracker-boy
triumph
sorcerer!
barbarism versus civilization
ranger?
fiction anthology one
menthol rampage
the sunset saga complete
winter of a fighting life
into leviathan’s maw
taboo you
thriving in bad places
let the world fend for itself
son of a lesser god
time & cosmos
advent america
broken dance
on combat
song of the secret gardener
blue eyed daughter of zeus
fate
the gods of boxing
uncle satan
dark, distant futures
when you're food
america the brutal
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z-pill forever
logic of force
the fighting edge
sons of aryas
Also worth noting....Rocky Lockridge is the smallish street "pimp" in the famous YouTube video of the big cocky dude getting sparked out and dropped by a textbook 1-2 after provoking a confrontation on the sidewalk.
Now I feel dumb. Realized the "pimp punch" is at the end of the video....
I am so glad that Rocky had this last moment of devastating power. I had always thought this was Andrew Council from D.C.
Old boxers seem to be able to keep their coordination, balance, and instincts even when they're well past their prime. I remember this story about Jack Dempsey from our local paper back in the '60's:
http://www.boxingmonthly.com/stories/criminal-stupidity-the-day-two-muggers-tried-to-rob-jack-dempsey/boxingmonthly.com/stories/criminal-stupidity-the-day-two-muggers-tried-to-rob-jack-dempsey/
There was a photo accompanying the article with Jack holding his fist up to the camera so that the perspective made his fist look as big as a basketball.