Comments Thread For: Hot Heavyweight Prospect Itauma Links Up With New Coach Ben Davison

[billeau2]

THIS GUY IS THE BOMB!!!!! If he has a little luck, a lot of pluck and learns the ropes, this guy is gooooood!!!! I used to like him and Wardley but Wardley has become just another sluggish heavyweight who gases and fell in love with his power... I hope this kid goes in a different direction.

Ben Davis is a rarity: He is a young guy who is a trainer. He has talent, he will improve as he works with talented kids like Moses Itauma. I like the partnership.

[billeau2]

Watch out for Itauma, and this is a great move because it puts him in the same gym and sparring regularly with AJ. To anybody who doesn’t think Davison is a good trainer, you’re wrong because top fighters keep going to him, and they know more about boxing than you lol.

He is 19. Think about that for a second….

The kid has great feet and instincts. He can hit like a pile driver and seems mentally strong. He is also a great size, not to big... Have to see how his chin is when he gets tested lol. Might be a while!

[Sid-Knee]

Is anyone else baffled as to why fighters go with Davison?

I suspect he must be willing to take a really small cut compared to his competitors.

Does your wife or girlfriend have a thing for him or something? He's a good trainer. He's proven you wrong more than a few times now.

[Butt stuff]

I used to dislike Boxercise Ben, he came across so smug. But he’s undeniably the goods now. In all the years he’s had his (admittedly very talented) stable, they’ve hardly taken any losses. He’s doing some, or a lot of things, very right.

[1Eriugenus]

I've said before, I haven't been so excited by a British lad since Prince Naseem. Ituama puts punches together quickly & effectively. His hand speed is exceptional & he puts money on his punches. That is incredibly rare in the H/W division. IDK why he is leaving the trainer that taught him to do that BUT I understand so much of boxing is politics not sport. I honestly see Itauma being world champion because the skills he has, compared to almost everyone in the H/W division, are different level. Of course, when he starts to close in on the top level we may find he just doesn't have the chin, or the heart or the stamina to be champion but just on skills, IMO, he is the next generation world H/W champion.

[1Eriugenus]

Everyone laughed at boxercise Ben but MoFos not laughing no mo.

[Atypicalbrit]

Is anyone else baffled as to why fighters go with Davison?

I suspect he must be willing to take a really small cut compared to his competitors.

I think Ben is underrated, he's new school in his approach which rubs some people up the wrong way, but what I like is he takes fighters attributes into account and works everything around maximjsibg their existing strengths.

So many old school UK trainers like the Ingles and Joe Gallagher etc all try and paste their same style onto every fighter that walks into their gym.

If Davidson actually completes this repair job he's having to do with AJ it's time to start calling him the best trainer in the UK because all these glamorous foreign coaches weren't able to do it.

[Mick Higgs]

I think it's a good move & hope they stick together. Hopefully Moses gets either Johnny Fisher or the Dacres/Adelaye winner by the end of the Summer & it happens in the UK!.....

[CasperUK]

Is anyone else baffled as to why fighters go with Davison?

I suspect he must be willing to take a really small cut compared to his competitors.

He is better than he gets credit for.

Him and Shane McGuigan are the best trainers in the UK now.

[hennanra1000]

Of the top 10 trainers (based on world champions trained) in last 50 years and many of them never boxed or left boxing early. So the ‘boxercise’ is just bit of petty hate.

I believe Ben Davison will go on to be one of best trainers in the world. As much as people want to deny him his credit there is a pattern emerging of taking fighters written off as damaged good and reviving. Its as if Fury and AJ comebacks are not enough leave aside all other fighters he has helped.

He had amateur boxing background already along with semi pro football and takes more analytical approach. Seems most commentators haven’t looked at his background.