Team Katsidis: An Example Of What Not To Do

[brently1979]

That's it right there mate! His ****ing corner truly lost him the fight. All the corner should have been telling him to do was "keep your hands high and when you get in close **** to the body and you'll have 'im!"

I just don't think they have the ability to lead him against the big boys. He needs a new trainer badly as I started thinking in his last fight against Amonsot. They never actually give him any specific advice, it's all just "C,mon mate, you gotta pick it up now." or "You're doing great mate, just more of the same, more of the same!" What the **** is that all about? He needed to be told to relax, that he had the fight in the bag and he could of had it won if he just took it easy kept his hands, threw more left hooks as Casa was expecting the right hand, and went to the body more than anything.

That's all they needed to tell him to do and he would of had it! God damn, I was so depressed when that happened! Still am. He was deserving of that title and his corner ****ed it up.

I totally agree, he needs a new trainer for this level of fighting. Some trainers can make that jump, Smith can't. He's inability to read a fight is terrible.

[BennyST]

I totally agree, he needs a new trainer for this level of fighting. Some trainer can make that jump, Smith can't. He's inability to read a fight is terrible.

Yeah, I think that is what it comes down to. At the lower level of competition he was getting away with not actually giving any specific advice and just telling Katsidis to "pick it up" etc was working. Now though, when he needed to be told to do certain things to win and cut out certain things that were very obviously not going to win him the fight it wasn't said....?

Sometimes a fighter and corner have to recognise that they need someone who can take them to that next level and who has the experience at the highest level to make it happen. If his corner can't see the huge mistakes they were making by not telling him certain things in a video playback then I actually feel sorry for Katsidis' career because if he comes up in this type of situation again, which will most certainly happen, and doesn't get sound advice, it could ruin what may have been an amazing and exciting career.

Katsidis went a bit wild towards the end and left to his own devices would have lost the fight, but, the whole point of a corner is to see what's happening and curb those tendencies in a fighter. To tell him what to do and what not to do is what they're there for, and sadly, these guy just weren't there for Katsidis when he needed them most.

After seeing the Amonsot fight I had some pretty big reservations about his corner who seemed to be making some pretty ****** decisions that may have cost him that fight. Now, this has just cemented what I thought then because at this level you need to know that what your corner is telling you is going to win you the fight and after this performance I wouldn't be so confident if I was Katsidis.