Gamber: I'll tell you this about Andy. I felt like I figured out how to get the best out of him. But I figured out that when he was willing to work, to push him hard. When I could tell that he wasn't really going to do anything, don't even try. Just give him the day off, just let him go, but push him when he was willing to work. And that was the mentality and the strategy that I had with him, and I felt like I got the most out of him. In my last fight with him [in March 2013], we got him down to the lightest weight of his pro career – 246 pounds – to fight a fighter that Deontay Wilder had previously fought, guy named Matthew “Gator” Greer, and Andy fought him in the last fight that I coached him. Deontay had knocked this guy out in two rounds. So we wanted to do better and stop him in the first. Andy dropped him four times in the first and stopped him in the first, the lightest weight of his pro career. Top Rank, his promoter at that time, had never been happier. From what I had been told, it was a success. But after that fight, it was hard to get back into the gym with them. I think, honestly, we were supposed to get into the gym, or somewhere around 15 times once we did get in the gym, he didn't show up very much. That's why I got frustrated and decided to move back to Nashville and open my own gym and try to make something out of this kid named Caleb Plant.
