Does Katsidis have the worst trainer in the sport?

[Miburo]

Better than Pavlik's corner being completely tongue-tied and stuttering against Taylor. What was up with all the training it showed Katsidis doing in what appeared to be a parking lot though, does the man not even have a gym?

[OnePunch]

Actually, I voted no. His corner work, suspect as it was, is not a reflection of him as a trainer. It's 2 different things. Some trainers just aren't good in the corner, and maybe should let someone else handle the advice/adjustments part. Jim Strickland would have done much better in this case. And if I'm not mistaken, I think at one point I heard Jim saying something to Katsidis between rounds, and Smith says "No advice please, I told you about that" or something to that effect. But back to my point, some trainers are good in the gym, but not so good in the corner. McGirt and Roach also come to mind. McGirt just says "jab him to the chest baby" over and over again, and Roach just sits there with a blank look on his face and says "give me more water".

[abadger]

I think the trainer had a very simple plan, get Katsidis to box cautiously so that the fight would go into the later rounds and bank on his power carrying the day. The problem was that he was too cautious and didn't do any kind of damge early that would have helped this plan succeed. With a fighter like Katsidis, that isn't a bad plan, but I think they underestimated Diaz.

[F-22 Raptor]

Its a tie between him and Yoel Judah.

No it's not Yoel, it's Zab, Zab is the biggest disgrace to boxing ever.

[bp4pbjr]

Katsidis seemed look like he thought he was winning in the way in which he fought and when they announced the decision he was crushed after he heard that first judge gave it to him but awsome fight

[roundingace]

The problem with this fight is that HBO talked as though Diaz totally destroyed Katsidis, but he didn't. I personally had Diaz winning 9 rounds to 3, but this wasn't a beatdown it was simply a case of two fairly evenly matched brawlers but where one is a much superior outboxer. Diaz won the rounds based on landing his jab on Katsidis over and over again, but there is plenty of case for arguing that Katsidis landed harder and cleaner combos in several rounds, especially towards the end of the fight, when I felt he often had the better of it.

The point is that the verdict was correct but the spin placed on it by the coverage wasn't.

He methodically picked apart the stronger puncher in a lobsided victory. You said it yourself, 9 rounds to 3. That sir, is a beatdown. Didn't his face show enough of that for you?

[Mistadobalina]

yes, but at least he was calm about it lol

[Dambala]

It seemed to me like Kessler corner against Calzaghe. They didn't readjust well, or maybe they wanted him to pace himself for the later rounds, but it didn't work.

[roundingace]

It seemed to me like Kessler corner against Calzaghe. They didn't readjust well, or maybe they wanted him to pace himself for the later rounds, but it didn't work.

Shshhhhhhh! Christ, now you awoke all the JC people! Great, thanks.

[Landshark]

Jesus christ, he kept lying to katsidis the whole fight and gave him the worst advice in the world. And was one of the judges paid off? Did the ****** judge who thought katsidis win was a woman who thought kats is hot?

Mac you are right, if I was his trainer the first thing I would have told him katz to go to diazes left, dude was getting HIT ALL NIGHT with the left jab, I mean how hard is it to go opposite of the jab? Next thing is, in the beginning of the fight he NEVER went to juans body, I mean juan is not a bodybuilder or anything but the body early part of the fight would have worked wonders! I honestly think this was a VERY Evenly matched fight and winnable for kats.
I did score it 115-111 for diaz