Teddy is a typical East-Coast NY City Slicker, Boxing establishment Elitist.
He loves himself New York Gym full of young, sweaty black kids/would be fighters. Probably has wet dreams of big NFL African-Americans being Heavyweight Boxers. This is the same hard-on that Roger Mayweather has for Mid-Western fighters. It's not exactly Nationalism, but even worse.
He can't stand the fact that fighters from other continents are kicking ass in a sport that evolved for decades with great African-American fighters leading the charge.
So Wlad Klitschko and Manny Pacquiao are on his (S)hit-list, throwing passive-aggressive criticism at them every chance he gets. Probably upsets him because deep inside, he knows that a Boxing Trainer with a philosophy and training style like his, would have nothing to offer if he were their trainer. All famous boxing trainer have this attitude (I.E. FLoyd Mayweather Senior) that if they were training a elite fighter, they would improve them. It's that insecurity that drives him. And now he is trying to impose that East-Coast slick philosophy on a Eastern-Europan named Povetkin, and is too stubborn & proud to admit that it's not working. I can't wait until Povetkin gets beat under his watch.
Out of green k, but great post.
I like Teddy as a commentator on FNF but his opinions on other boxing matters are ridiculous at times.
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