Teddy Atlas 'I Want Haye To Win'

[Toe Injury]

Watching a bad race car driver smash into a wall and burst into flames is "more exciting" but it's not going to win a Formula 1 championship.

I still can't believe the whole Povetkin thing. He literally flushed his career/life down the toilet by hiring Teddy Atlas. Just listening to Teddy do fight commentary is painful enough. Imagine paying him & learning English only to find out he was sharing profound knowledge like "work off the jab", "use head movement" and "if you hit him enough you'll hurt him". He has like 10-15 pre-recorded phrases, absolutely 0 analytical skills (hence the "Teddy Atlas curse") and has made a career out of "looking and sounding like a boxing trainer" per a cliche Hollywood stereotype.

[William Blake]

Teddy really knows what he is talking about.

Haye-Audley Harrison was a real exciting fight that was good for boxing.

Hay-John Ruiz was a fight that people were begging for and didn't disappoint.

Teddy really got that Russian fighter Potemikin (?) on the map.

Teddy Atlas knows a lot about boxing and is good for the sport,

[sdcluser]

Watching a bad race car driver smash into a wall and burst into flames is "more exciting" but it's not going to win a Formula 1 championship.

I still can't believe the whole Povetkin thing. He literally flushed his career/life down the toilet by hiring Teddy Atlas. Just listening to Teddy do fight commentary is painful enough. Imagine paying him & learning English only to find out he was sharing profound knowledge like "work off the jab", "use head movement" and "if you hit him enough you'll hurt him". He has like 10-15 pre-recorded phrases, absolutely 0 analytical skills (hence the "Teddy Atlas curse") and has made a career out of "looking and sounding like a boxing trainer" per a cliche Hollywood stereotype.

“If you want to slow a speedy fighter down, go to the body and take some of the air out of the tires.”

“It looks like he’s found a home for that right hand.” “Of course, to get home he had to walk through a bad neighborhood!!”

“If he’s willing to take his opponent to a place he’s never been, to go through deep waters, he could get the W.”

“He needs that jab to set the table for the main course, which in this case would be that right uppercut.”

“He’s not turning his opponent; he’s letting him walk right through the front door. He can’t let him walk in and sit down; he needs to put his hands up.”

ANYMORE?

[Pirao]

Teddy Atlas

Well at least he gave the kiss of death to Haye, now it's a given Wlad will win

[Mr. Philadel]

Teddy is a typical East-Coast NY City Slicker, Boxing establishment Elitist.

He loves himself a New York Gym full of young, sweaty black kids/ aspiring would-be fighters. Probably has wet dreams of big, NFL African-Americans being Heavyweight Champions. This is the same type of 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 trainers 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.

this is the whole truth and nothing but the truth!!!...good post!!