**********'s Breadman said Maidana won...

[WhenWeWereKings]

...was this ever noted here on NSB?

I love reading the posts here but haven't posted before today. Not sure if anyone brought this up.

Stephen 'Breadman' Edwards is brilliant on **********. I mean, you can get a serious education reading his mailbag. He boasts that the only one on the planet who he admits 'may' know more is Max Kellerman. You be the judge. Read his mailbag and tell me this man doesn't know boxing.

Anyways, he scored it a Maidana win. You can read how he scored. His great idea- never heard of people doing this- is to just flip a coin(split) the swing rounds. You thought the fight had 4 swing rounds? Give two to one guy and two to the other. If the fight had five swing rounds, split four of them and judge the fifth by your critieria, etc. Great, great idea I thought.

Was curious:

Do you think you're more knowledgeable than the Breadman?

[dan_cov]

I don't even know who Breadman is

[Sweet Pea 50]

Thought it was a typo. Thought TS was talking about...

[dan_cov]

Who is Breadman though? Ain't that the name of George Groves mascot..

[Mike D]

war breadman

[MrP4P]

Stephen (Breadman) Edwards is the trainer of Julian Williams, and also works for the ********** website where he answers fans questions in his mailbag a few times a week, and the man happens to be a genius and historian when it comes to boxing, his eye for boxing is unmatched and Ive never seen someone predict and breakdown a fight that ends up going down the exact way he predicts it. Put it this way... he has about a 90% rate of predicting the way a fight is going to go, people actually make money off his predictions, hes also very max kellerman esque. He scored mayweather- maidana 115-113 for maidana, but thats also because he scored a few swing rounds in Maidanas favor, he doesnt believe ONE fighter should get the benefit of the doubt for every swing round, in all honesty though the rounds he gave maidana, mayweather won em, Maidana won like 1 round after 5, but thats how he scores fights, he admits the scorecard can be flipped based on swing rounds, but check this guy out anyway.

[WhenWeWereKings]

His mailbags from May, 5th and May 11th of this year he goes into how he scored the fight. And how people shouldn't score it, etc.

Both sets of his takes on the fight are interesting. I think besides the fact that he references very specific parts of fights from hundreds of fights from different decades- he's a fan of different types of fighters. I think that's the thing that separates him from other boxing writers. He's a fan of the 'uglier' type of fighter like Giovanni Segura, Kamegai, the 'old' pre-Alexander Maidana, etc. Along with the artists James Toney, Rigondeaux, Money, etc. Most writers(or posters here) only like or score for one type of fighter/fight. Ugly or clean.

He noted something that very few others have(that I've seen). People, for years, have knocked Maidana for throwing a looping right hand. They always call it, 'throwing that wide ****'- derisively. Breadman noted that Sugar Ray Leonard and Roy Jones Jr both threw great looping right hands. In the right fights at the right times. I went back and watched SRL fight Mayweather's dad- fascinating fight- and you see Leonard throw that looping right hand over the shoulder roll. Almost exactly how Maidana threw it against Broner.

Great stuff.

[takingaim]

war breadman

I raise your breadman and give you...

[TheRichCoward]

Bread basket is a ****ing moron. The Rich Coward won 8-4. Madonna is a rabbit punching journey man.

[IIG]

I know of Bread, but didn't know he scored the fight for Maidana. He loses credibility from me, so thanks for the heads up.