There's good and bad in this. The good is, he can't lose his swag. People keep saying he was "humbled." But IMO, being humbled is the worst thing that he can do. He's an arrogant guy. But most of the great fighters in history were. He can't lose that. But what he does need to do is put the horse back in front of the cart. And that's where the bad in this comes out. He needs to concentrate on being a fighter first, and a star second. You don't make youurself a star. You become great and stardom comes. I don't know how good he can ultimately be. But he won't maximize his potential, whatever it is, if he doesn't wanna put in the work and pay his dues like those before him.
its good to hear him speak on it, I hope he does come back better. I thought he was taking maidana serious but it was clear he doesn't train as hard as he claims and he really thought he could go in there and make easy work of maidana without a firm gameplan. he has no footwork amongst many other holes in his game that now people will see they can exploit
I think it's crazy to say that he didn't work hard. He worked hard! And he took Maidana seriously. He just didn't have the skills necessary to win. He has a lot of things he still need to develop. They had a gameplan, but the gameplan was all wrong. People tend to mistake working hard as a definitive path to success. It doesn't work that way.
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