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Sergio Martinez had a messed up leg and was coming off surgery for it when he fought Cotto.
I don't give Miguel too much credit for that win. That wasn't the same Sergio that worked Pavlik and Paul Williams.Comment
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Pretty good mailbag. Not sure I wanted to read that War and Peace epic by whoever about Mike McCallum, it should have been edited, way too long, but 'the body snatcher IS one of the most underrated fighters of his era.
He beat my hero Julian Jackson, and I would love to have seen Mike in with a prime James Toney or Roy Jones. (his last two losses came to them in the '97 and '96 when he was nearly 40, and back then 30 was considered old)
One of the things about McCallum was he had a solid chin, incredible will and stamina and, as mention great boxing skills.
The two things Cotto and GGG have in common is Abel Sanchez. I say two, because Sanchez works well only with fighters who do well making a focusing on their opponents to the detriment of their natural talents.
When Sanchez trained Cotto, his famed left hook almost disappeared and he became a different, more defensive counterpuncher.
He returned to the old Cotto (that's why the writer said a different Cotto emerged in '09 or whenever, because he left Sanchez and his overly scientific - emphasis on analysing and adjusting for an opponent's style of training. The natural left hook returned as did the Cotto of old.)
GGG has the same problem, everybody who's anybody knows that Golovkin's blueprint for beating Canelo is simple and right in front of his face, but Sanchez will have Gennady's blood analysed, study endless videos of the first fight and look for flaws in Alvarez's game - when the key lies with what the writer said - He just needs to get vicious and bully Canelo into the corner, the ropes, take a step back and unload body shots galore, or like Iron Mike hit him all over - the battle of the chins is tight, but I think Gennady's will hold upjust that bit better than Canelos.
How frustrating is it going to be when we watch the fight and see the tentative GGG plodding forward, tapping on the door, throwing 1 or two punches at a time, while Canelo basically gives him a boxing lesson?Comment
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I think it's a situation where you have to be a Floyd fan yourself to notice his bias. He is very good at masking it but no matter how good he is a Floyd fan will always notice.
The neutrals probably won't notice and the majority of people hate Floyd so they won't notice too or they will just ignore it or outright support the bias.
Bread is without a shadow of doubt biased against Floyd. However you can't expect him to admit it to you, he never will because he will lose credibility if he does.
Hell, he might be in complete denial about it and won't even admit it to himself for all we know.
He doesn't like Floyd at all. He will always correct someone when they get their facts wrong about a fighter that he likes or is neutral about but when it comes to Floyd he either is the source of the misconception/lie or he outright ignores it and let's it pass. He is done this too often for it not to be a bias, especially where Pac is concerned.
It's not only against Floyd either, he has a personal bias FOR Pac and GGG too.
In this particular mailberg he heavily criticized Martinez for ducking GGG in favor of fighting smaller fighters or more popular guys.
However, the same GGG has been doing exactly that for years now. Ducking Ward and Lara while calling out Floyd and fighting Brook.
Avoiding Ward and Lara because high risk low reward and taking easier fights.
His trainer started trash talking the Charlo fight as soon as Charlo became GGG's mandatory and GGG has never responded to his mandatory call outs from Charlo.
Just recently GGG fought a guy who hadn't fought in two years, hadn't fought at middleweight, and wasn't even ranked at middleweight. He rather get stripped than fight Derevychenko and rather fight an unranked guy than any of his manatories, and this is the guy who said he wants all the belts as his main goal.
Can you believe that Bread actually had the audacity to come here and rabidly defend that bull shieet Martiroysan event with a "righteous indignity"
Had Floyd pulled what GGG pulled what do you think he would have said?
I suppose Bread is only human, yes he tries to mask his bias but his audience aren't ten year olds (at least not all of them) so we see through the bulshieet.
But like I said, he's only human, but at the end of the day, bull shieet is bull shieet.Comment
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They've already sold 75,000 tickets. It's just simply not possible for Deontay Wilder to do anything comparable to that when Americans are mostly casual fans and are terrible about supporting our own. That's partially why Wilder hasn't gained the popularity that he deserves. It's bullshît really. HBO is not helping at all with its love jones for foreign fighters. And now it seems like they're pulling the plug on boxing. And they refuse to work with Al Haymon. So we have an American Heavy Weight Champion who has to behave like a pro wrestler to get attention...Comment
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