JEEP Horn’s team is burning with anger after being forced to train in a dilapidated sauna-like Las Vegas gymnasium for his world title defence against American Terence Crawford next week.
``The facilities and conditions here are very oppressive,’’ Rushton said.
``We were expected to work out in 40 degree heat and I believe the temperature is going above 40 next week ahead of the fight.
``The Top Rank gym has a tin roof so the heat is stifling. The people who run it told us the air conditioning didn’t work. Then we tried to get the big metal roller doors lifted but they were locked tight and no one had the key. The punching bags were in poor shape and the speed ball was totally deflated. We eventually got one of the roller doors up yesterday but we don’t want to continue training there.
I agree that all pro boxers deserve the respect to called by their right name and not an insulting made up name.As a GGG fan I know of dozens of insulting nick names his haters call him. However team Horn has been guilty of huge disrespect and name calling of Crawford for months now. Now team Horn has to back up all that bragging if they can. It will be a fair fight and the better fighter should win it.
I dont like it when any fan resorts to name calling its just stupid and immature.
I also like GGG and admit i do get pi..ed of when people resort to these kind of cheap insults esp. Considering he is an atg in and out of the ring.
Getting back to Horn, this guy is as humble as they come you wouldnt find a nicer guy boxing atm yet all he gets is disrespect and insults.
I just dont get it.
Anyone else feel like Jeffery’s head got huge after the Pacquiao gift. Manny trained in that gym Hell even Floyd trained in there when he was with top rank. I can’t wait for bud to finish off this paper champ I also can’t wait to hear from his promoter and trainer after all the **** talking they’ve been doing.
It would be hilarious if Jeep miss the weight. :D
Robert ain’t know dummy! Maybe cheap jeep looked a lil thick and the Bobfather said, “I got the perfect spot for you fellas coming here from the outback! Lmao”
The Bobfather just wants to ensure that Jeep, I mean Jeff, makes weight with no problems. Das all doe🤣
It would be hilarious if Jeep miss the weight. :D
That type of heat is no joke, and he seemed to be talking about more than just "not to his liking"; he described it as intentional, which seems to be full deflation.
Jeep is complaining like there's no heatwave in Brisbane, Australia.
Welcome to the Nevada desert heat Jeep...
Hope you won't complain about the heat Bud will bring on fight night...
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The Bobfather just wants to ensure that Jeep, I mean Jeff, makes weight with no problems. Das all doe🤣
I don't doubt the quality of the gym or the ability of its workers to keep it suitable, but the situation here is that Horn arrives, and everything's deflated--and there isn't even anyone around to open a vent of some sort. That's just not fitting for what it should be in a fight of this level. I can understand why he feels that's odd. Does Arum think Crawford needs help or something? Why not have it ready or with employees?
The heat in Vegas is just the heat in Vegas, the gym has always operated the same way for years.
And maybe the bags weren’t inflated to his liking and if that was the case he could of just asked for a hand pump to adjust the air pressure himself, Rich is always there for things like that.
I could see if you have limited experience in Vegas how the heat can be different but it’s nothing that hundreds of fighters before him have endured and thrived on for years.
And trust me no one cares about Horn at that level, he doesn’t and won’t generate the type of revenue to warrant special treatment either positive or negative.
There are tons of gyms to train at
And horn fights same way every fight anyway so its not like he has to be worried about other people seeing his gameplan
How is it in working condition if the equipment is mysteriously deflated, and there's no one around to even try adjusting the temperature by letting air in?
That's what speed bags do. They deflate. You fill them up every few days to keep them full so they rebound. It sounds like there wasn't a staff guy on hand to tend to them and these sheilas ouldn't figure out how a gym works.
right thats literally what every boxing team do, they hit up some connects or other boxing gyms if they can use their gyms when they in town for fight night etc its acutally very common practice in the boxing world.
also I think they were talking about celius which woul dmake it about 104 degrees actually but still that aint shit.
If we had that hit in Britain the country would grind to a halt. People would be being peeled off the street
It should still be in working condition; if they couldn't have it ready, they should have told him, so that they could find another place. It's just not very responsible, and I understand why they were annoyed.
The Top Rank gym is a quality boxing gym, owned by one of the most powerful promoters in the world.
Countless champions and contenders have worked out there, everything in it is was in excellent working condition and was replaced often, hell even the canvases in the two rings were always replaced after a promotion were there was a custom canvas used.
The gym manager was a old guy from Hawaii named Mitch and Bob Arum gave Richard Sandaval a job for life after he was damaged in his last fight many years ago, and he makes sure everything is in proper working order, and he never did the work himself, they always had professionals come in and upkeep the gym.
It’s a million dollar operation so if anyone thinks Horn is in some bad gym to try to rattle him is silly.
Yeah there’s no AC or heat (Vegas is cold in the winter) which should not matter to a fighter training to fight.
It should still be in working condition; if they couldn't have it ready, they should have told him, so that they could find another place. It's just not very responsible, and I understand why they were annoyed.
It IS in working condition. Its the way its always been. There is no AC. All the other fighters never have a problem with it. Horn is soft as hell, in school class rooms there is always AC so he cant hack it in the standard Top Rank gym that hundreds of other fighters use and never complain about.
Straight out.
Hes a world champion boxer flying half way around the world to take on the best in Buds backyard.
Atleast give him a decent gym to train in.
For real man, last I chekced he was +1000 which is a very sizable underdog price. Top Rank turning shiest.
It's winter in Australia. The heat in Vegas probably came as a bit of a shock to his system. Hope he acclimitises quickly. If not, then that is poor preparation on his behalf.
Sure, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to complain now does it?
He's being treated poorly, dam fùcking right he should complain.
Straight out.
Hes a world champion boxer flying half way around the world to take on the best in Buds backyard.
Atleast give him a decent gym to train in.