Abel Sanchez: Spar is spar, that stuff has to stay in the gym

[Redd Foxx]

At least other trainers like Roach had some humor in their trash talk and some of it was obvious trolling. And not to mention that Roach has actually trained real legends and hall of famers.

I think that's a smart statement. ^ People hate on Roach but what Freddie does is industry-standard "We're gonna knock him out in the 2nd round." kind of promotional kind of stuff. He sometimes giggles as he says it.

Abe is on some bizarre, personal trolling shyt. He doesn't just make up predictions in the way every coach does, he actually lies about things that have happened, postures (then flounders), manipulates information, and seems to denigrate others in order to bolster his favored fighter. He had Barrera ill-prepared for Ward, then threw Barrera right under the bus to save face.

It's a shame for GGG that he catches flack for so much of the stuff Abe says.

[TheSnatcher]

Sanchez described the encounter to Hustleboss.com as a mismatch. He stated, “He [Kovalev] was one of the sparring partners that we had. He was with me for about a year and a half. Really Kovalev was afraid of Golovkin when he was in the ring. I couldn’t spar him too much because he showed too much respect for Golovkin. He just fell apart in their with Golovkin.”

"Sergey sparred with Golovkin 5 or 6 times...had some very good, heated sparring sessions...sparring is sparring...that stuff has to stay in the gym...I'm not going to say it happened, I'm not going to say it didn't happen...it doesn't matter if it did,"

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Sanchez has officially replaced Garcia's dad. I wish Sanchez would somehow get banned from boxing.

[NateHound]

That sour faced douche has been running his mouth for years about what happened in sparring. What a massive twat.

Sadly, half the Golovkin fans think they need to defend this guy by proxy. Guys, it's OK to Love Golovkin and not like Sanchez. They're two different people. I promise!

This is true and isn't said enough.

HUGE GGG fan, but Abel Sanchez is a bit of a doofus. Can't deny he's right for GGG so far though.

[Baltimore]

GGG is my favorite fighter but I wish Sanchez would just shut the **** up.

So much of the hate GGG gets is because of Abel's big mouth.