Comments Thread For: Abel Sanchez Slams "Greedy, Ungrateful" Golovkin For The Split

[Mario040481]

If I were Canelo , then I’d get Sanchez in corner to help. He’d give the advice needed to beat Golovkin decisively.

Damnit. I just went through this whole thread to see if anyone else said something similar, as I was gonna say the same about Canelo hiring Abel,, not for any tactical purposes though, I just think it'd be funny.

Curious, when ggg showed up in America, was he already an aggressive offense minded fighter? If he wasn't, how likely is it that many other American trainers would've taken him into that kinda style? Ggg obviously, or maybe likely, was already skilled enough to beat the majority of fighters on his resume with a more technical boxing style, but beating those guys that way wouldn't be sellable, but beating them in the supposed "Mexican style" was successful. Abel is an offense first minded guy, and if he truly trained ggg to fight that way, which is how the story was always pushed, than he likely was very integral to making ggg a success, meaning business wise. I bring all that up as I see a few with opinions that Abel didn't do much for ggg that couldn't have been done without him, but I'm not so sure.
None of that's to say I think he's in the right or wrong in the divorce here and who should get the kids

[crisantonio917]

Sanchez being the arrogant POS that he is brought this upon himself, he is known for his smug attitude and got just what he deserved, GGG should have gotten rid of him years go, trash for trainer, worse as a human being, R.I.P. "The Summit"...

[sportbuddha]

Funny how trainers start to believe they made a fighter when they are not the ones facing the opponent. Reward them well, sure, but have them dictating terms, no way.

[BLASTER1]

The second fight was a good ole ass whoopin but ggg can’t accept it.

Abel was telling him the right things to do and that he was down on points but ggg was the one who couldn’t do it plain n simple but like most fighters they try to blame the ppl around them instead of themselves.

Bro it wasn't an ass whoopin any way you look at it unless your one of them guys that count a fighters appearance after the fight as a whopping.
GGG lost a very close decision that in all honesty could of easily been called a draw.

[BoxHec]

Sanchez being the arrogant POS that he is brought this upon himself, he is known for his smug attitude and got just what he deserved, GGG should have gotten rid of him years go, trash for trainer, worse as a human being, R.I.P. "The Summit"...

Hahaha, typycal eurozozos B.S fans! when their idols are undefeated they love their Americans trainers but after their loses they insults those same trainers..
Kovaleva: change his trainer after his first TKO lose, hired a russian trainer.. then lose again.. change his trainer again and hire another.. Americans' trainer..

And without Abel Sanchez (or another Americans trainer) Golovkin will an obscur boxer in eastern europe and in Germany... same for Kovaleva without John David Jackson..

[Bronx2245]

Jackson was a RAT.

Kovalev started all that himself, talking smack about U.S. trainers, etc.! He didn't do it until he lost to Ward!

[chubuk7]

abel is rich without boxing. this isnt about money. its the principle

theres PRINCIPALITIES in this

How you can improve yourself if you have used only one trainer in you’re whole career? Changing trainer is part of the game. Nothing new, just think about it.

[khizon]

You're fired!

[chubuk7]

You're fired!

Basically, GGG doesn't want to give the standard 10% to Abel anymore. Most fighters who are making millions don't pay their trainer 10%, but rather a set rate, so GGG is really no different. The best 160lb today with or without Sanchez.

[Bronx2245]

Sure but...Buddy is a better trainer and corner man than Jackson. Kovalev has actually improved with Buddy McGirt

Maybe Kovalev is actually LISTENING to Buddy McGirt! Kovalev felt like JDJ did nothing for him! He went with some Russian for Eleider Alvarez, and got blasted out! That made him wake up! The problem was him, not JDJ! Hindsight is 20/20!

John David Jackson: ‘Without proper training, Kovalev got his ass whipped’
by Joseph Santoliquito
RING

August 9, 2018:

One of the first things out of trainer John David Jackson’s mouth was a little surprising about his former charge, Sergey Kovalev, when Jackson said, “Before I begin here, Kovalev is right when he says I didn’t train him the last fight. I didn’t … because he didn’t want to be trained, he trained himself.”

Jackson, the renowned Florida-based trainer, was in Cardiff, Wales, last weekend working the corner of 2016 Olympic welterweight gold medalist Daniyar Yeleussinov in a six-rounder on the undercard of the Joe Cordina-Sean Dodd fight for the Commonwealth lightweight title. He found out about Kovalev’s seventh-round demise to Colombian Eleider Alvarez on Saturday after a call to a friend.

But Jackson knew that the “Krusher” in Kovalev (32-3-1, 28 knockouts) had left a while ago. In a candid discussion with The Ring, Jackson let loose some of the things that went on behind the scenes in his attempts to train the Russian expatriate and former two-time light heavyweight champ.

Jackson, who has a strong reputation as a straight talker, said he wasn’t surprised Kovalev was stopped.

“Not at all,” Jackson said. “I called a friend of mine in London and found out the result. It’s why I say he was right when he said I didn’t train him. I wasn’t going to waste my time trying to teach or show him anything if he wasn’t willing to learn. He was real hard to work with. He said I didn’t work with him for the first [Andre] Ward fight. He lied about that, but the second fight, he’s right, I didn’t work with him at all. He was bringing in new people to train him every day and the reason why it’s all true is that Don Turner saw everything. I watched and thought, ‘This was the blind leading the blind.’

“He wanted me out of the way, so I got out of the way. When he was winning, things were great. As soon as he lost, it was my fault.”

Signs came early that Jackson might have a difficult time with Kovalev.

“The first time I met the guy I cussed him out; he was a pain to work with,” Jackson recalled. “I tried to show him a move and he told he couldn’t do that. That came the very first day. I stayed with him because I made a promise to Don Turner that I would do my best with him, and Kathy Duva is a sweetheart. I didn’t want to leave her strapped in any way. But from day one, it was a struggle for me to try and work with this guy, because he swore he knew everything from training back in Russia...”

“This fight against Alvarez proved what I was saying all along. He trained himself for that fight. I know it. I saw Kovalev tired by round four. For a world-class fighter, he tired fast. He had no game plan, he had no defense. His game plan was to knock the kid out. Once the kid proved he could take Sergey’s punches, he was done. He was done. I put time into him for the first Ward fight. I would show him things for that fight, but whatever respect he may have had for me, it was long gone by then.