Kessler requires new sparring not a new trainer

[Rosseboi]

He needs to pay someone with a style like Ward's to help him train not change trainer. You cannot theory train for the style Ward brings but you can neutralize it through experienced sparring.

Kessler needs to pay Calzaghe to lightly spar with him. Calzaghe is the master feinter and like ward is great on the inside hitting on clinches and pulling away. Plus Calzaghhe fights at really oblique angles like Ward and can use Ward's technique in sparring.

Cazalghe doesn't have to get ring fit; just enough for sparring and be paid well for it and it will be money well spent.

imho 9/10 trainer changes rarely work because a fighter has become set to a certain style and Kessler is one of the most robotic of all fighters. He needs to spar and spar and spar and spar with a tricky, crafty fighter who'll use every trick against him so he can prevent another embarrasing loss like the ward one.

I'm on the fence for the Froch fight it's 50/50 but even if he gets past Froch he's only going to meet Ward again.


Kessler....invest in your future well. Pay Calzaghe well or the S6 tournament will end your career.

[ИATAS]

Don't trainers select sparring partners?

It's also their job to prepare their fighters for various different styles, especially guys like Ward, and Kessler's trainer failed miserably. Kessler looked absolutely lost in the ring against Ward, like he had no clue what to do with against him. That is all the trainers fault my friend.

[BattlingNelson]

The sparring for Ward was awful. First it was perhaps a week in Copenhagen against a Baltic hobo followed by a about a week in Berlin with some locals. Then a camp in Sacramento where he had about 2 weeks with the very able Otis Griffin and others.

The one glaring weakness? There was no southpaws in camp. Former trainer Olsen went public before the fight stating that Ward was awful when he fought as a southpaw..... In retrospect that was a big mistake as Ward was highly effective.

I don't know if Olsen really believed that Ward was bad as a righty but if he was serious then he looks really bad. Of course it could be that he said so to strenghten Kessler's confidence if they simply coldn't find any southpaws.