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Whilst many people might suggest Manny and Roach, or Bro Nas / Mosely, the simple fact of the matter is that Rees / Lockett is now the best boxer/trainer partnership in boxing today.
Rees has gone 7-0 since losing controversially to Kotelnik in 2008 (a fight incidentally that Kotelnik should have been disqualified from and the loss on Rees record is almost certainly a result not from the KO but from the bent world in which boxing lives). This fantastic turnaround in his career which has seen him quite legitimacy enter the P4P top 10 for the first time is due not just because of his ability, but also to his trainer, Gary Lockett.
Gary Lockett himself had a wonderful boxing career, losing just once to Kelly Pavlik. A fight that should not have taken place due to Pavliks addiction to performance enhancing drugs, but nonetheless the ‘0’ had to go and Gary was robbed of his opportunity to become one of the best middleweight champions of the last 5-10 years by a drug riddled American.
2011 should see both boxer and trainer cleaning up the LW division, with predicted wins over both the old and limited Juan Manuel Marquez, and the overrated and none-skilful, Katstidis.
Thankfully in a year of miss-matches, injuries and American cowards such as Andre Dirrell and Allan Green all damaging the good name of the sport, there are good honest and talented British people such as Gavin Rees and Gary Lockett who can hold their heads up high with pride, unlike so many of our cheating, cowardly boxing foes across the pond.
Rees has gone 7-0 since losing controversially to Kotelnik in 2008 (a fight incidentally that Kotelnik should have been disqualified from and the loss on Rees record is almost certainly a result not from the KO but from the bent world in which boxing lives). This fantastic turnaround in his career which has seen him quite legitimacy enter the P4P top 10 for the first time is due not just because of his ability, but also to his trainer, Gary Lockett.
Gary Lockett himself had a wonderful boxing career, losing just once to Kelly Pavlik. A fight that should not have taken place due to Pavliks addiction to performance enhancing drugs, but nonetheless the ‘0’ had to go and Gary was robbed of his opportunity to become one of the best middleweight champions of the last 5-10 years by a drug riddled American.
2011 should see both boxer and trainer cleaning up the LW division, with predicted wins over both the old and limited Juan Manuel Marquez, and the overrated and none-skilful, Katstidis.
Thankfully in a year of miss-matches, injuries and American cowards such as Andre Dirrell and Allan Green all damaging the good name of the sport, there are good honest and talented British people such as Gavin Rees and Gary Lockett who can hold their heads up high with pride, unlike so many of our cheating, cowardly boxing foes across the pond.
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