Kevin Rooney's opinion's! (how to be a great fighter, training, etc)

[The Troll]

yeah I enjoyed reading that

belated thanks for posting this

[tyson]

bump just because it's fitting with Addison's thread

[Hook00513z]

Hey. I'm 15, and have...every one of the three D's. I never take breaks on my body when it comes to training, and im practicing punches I see on Mike Tyson videos basically 24/7. Right now, I just finished doing my handstand pushups. I believe the only thing I want to do in live is to box, and I dedicate myself to it. I live in ******ia and am determined to make it, regardless of what my ****in father sais. He tells me i need to get my priorities straight. he never made it that far in boxing but I will because its my purpose and calling. Id rather die than box, and Tyson started at 13. I just turned 15, and thats when it hit me, I need to get the **** out of this place and make my journey to the Catskill boxing gym. I can either make money on the streets doin ****ed up stuff...and ride a train there..or..my ***********al family is going to NY this weekend. Right when we get there, ill talk to my sister who lives there and got kicked out of the house as a kid, and then Im ****in bookin it. Ill run across NY day and night to get to that damn gym and meet Kevin Rooney. I know im dedicated.

Anybody got any help they want to give me, or advice

[MonsieurGeorges]

"Cus had his fighters train the same from his earliest days til his last days - it never changed. Just like the three D's never change, the three D's never advance and it's the three D's that makes champions. You don't need no special science or pushing weights or any of that bulls***. You need the three D's above anything else, that's whats most important. Then Cus can mould you on a daily basis with advise and secrets and s*** like that, Cus had instinct and wisdom so he was able to mould or could vision well. Really the training was just running 30 minutes a morning and sparring 10 rounds a day - compulsory, increasing size of heavy bag every six months and decreasing size of speed bag every six months, and on top of that maybe some bodyweight exercises such as sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, dips - but those are by no means compulsory. Another thing, Cus had a problem when fighters only approached shadowboxing as a warming-up exercise.. which was literally all of 'em! What they do is - they simply go through the motions, p**** about doing f*** all, stab at the air, before moving onto the so-called real workout on the bags. But once you are in the ring, you will be confronted by different opponents who will use different styles and techniques. If you've already seen this guy, played these situations out and predicted your reactions as you shadowboxed, that puts you one step and one punch ahead of your opponent. Think in terms of combination punching.. it's how big, heavy guys like Floyd Patterson and Mike Tyson got their hands moving quick as f*** and their combinations flowing like f***.. without the resistance of a bag or the impact of hitting an opponent to affect your punches, it's shadowboxing that is the time to concentrate on the importance of throwing more than one shot at a time. Taking this approach will create a good habit of punching in combinations. It will also help you to become more fluid in your delivery and create better balance between your footwork and hand activity. Do not throw a meaningless punch, without an opponent to fend off or a bag to react to, you have the time and clear thinking to concentrate on the punches you throw. Throwing a lazy jab or a slapping right hand out doesn't help you in the ring, so do not do it in training. How many boxers do you know who approach shadowboxing as a serious workout? Probably some of the more successful boxers I'd guess.. that's if you know any at all who can actually be bothered to approach his shadowboxing seriously enough. It's no good feeling that skipping is a chore either, you gotta master it to improve your feet. You know something, Cus used to be up at 4am every morning to check his fighters feet and everything when they were going off to do roadwork.. making sure their feet were right when running and s***."

"As far as I'm concerned, if you're a guy who can fight, what would be the reason for taking drugs if you know how to punch right? It's in the technique, and timing is everything when you going for a knockout punch - it's all about timing. Drugs cannot improve timing, but practice can, technique can, experience can.. not drugs. Aiming for the temple, drugs don't help that. Also, I don't care what type of steroid you're taking, there's no way you can beat a guy like 'Smokin' Joe Frazier who's coming after you.. winging punches. No steroid in the world can help you handle something like that! Steroids may make you bigger, but they don't make you better. You gotta be old school and use the three D's, you gotta learn how to punch and you gotta practice like f*** instead of just sticking a needle up your ass. Just because your muscles get bigger doesn't make you a powerful puncher. A perfect example would be the fight between Oscar de la Hoya and Fernando Vargas - there's the proof in the pudding right there."

"Dehydrating s*** is how all the boxers back in the day would make the weight, but that's f***ing horses p***! If you have to starve yourself to make a weight, then you aint fighting in ya proper weight class are you? Come on, it aint no rocket science. You will be at such a disadvatage starving yourself anyway, it's obvious.. no energy and s***. Instead of having fighters dry out, Cus had them work out!"

"Cus had the greatest mind in boxing. He always predicted things that would happen and they all came true, everything came true what he predicted.. I mean, come on man.. it's scarey s*** right? Just a little example is when he had Cassius Clay spar Floyd in 1959, he said there and then that they would one day fight eachother in a heavyweight title fight. When we had Lennox Lewis over in 1984 way before the LA Olympics sparring Mike, he said there and then that those two would one day fight eachother for the heavyweight title. You know, guys would go to him for advise all the time. He was more of an advise man. Ray Robinson went to him and Cus' particular advise for him worked, Rocky Marciano went to him and Cus' particular advise for him worked, Joe Frazier went to him and Cus' particular advise for him worked, to name just a few. Every bit of advise he gave to those who came to him - worked! Ali came to him and actually admitted privately to Cus that he was worried about the Foreman fight, but Cus soon sorted him out mentally. Also, Cus told Ali: 'George doesn't respect your punch, so go out there and nail him!', if you watch the fight, you see in the first two rounds that Ali plants himself and nails Foreman hard with a straight hand - right on the button! Now that was due to some work Cus had done with him for a quick half hour. And you can see the suprise in Foreman's eyes! With 30 seconds left in the rounds, Ali would open up on Foreman. So, after every f***in' round, George is going back to his corner and they'd be telling him that Ali can't punch! That was the psychology and Cus saw that. After the rope-a-dope, Foreman was tired and he more or less gave up. I don't know if Cus gave Ali the rope-a-dope tactics though, I think he may of though.


recent pic of Rooney..
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a lot of wisdom here man