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Originally posted by RunWithKnives
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well and even though he's had a bad run with his fighters lately, i don't think Ajamu has Buddy McGirt in his corner for nothing..Originally posted by 4CornerMessiah
bottomline, i didn't expect anything more, anything less than i saw saturday night from Jones.. i was pleased (compared to his previous) with his perfomance in all, that's itComment
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I don't think Buddy wanted to be there. There was one round that went by that Buddy never said one word to Prince when he was in the corner.Originally posted by restless_438Comment
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Actually i just read the following:Originally posted by badblood
At the close of the Vivian Harris-Stevie Johnston fight on HBO Saturday night, commentator Fran Charles announced that Roy Jones Jr. had won a unanimous decision over Prince Badi Ajamu - a PPV event that was televised at the same time. Seconds before his live update, Charles stated: "Buddy McGirt, who is normally in Stevie Johnston's corner since his comeback, he was training Prince Badi Ajamu - taking on Roy Jones Jr. in Boise, Idaho."
It was that comment which prompted McGirt to contact ********* to set the record straight. "I'd like to make a clarification," says McGirt of Charles' implication that the trainer chose to work Badi's corner instead of Johnston. "I did not DUMP one fighter to go and be with another fighter! I would never do something like that! I do NOT train Stevie Johnson and I do NOT train Prince Badi Ajamu. I was in Boise because my fighter William Guthrie fought on the undercard for the IBF International cruiserweight title, and he won. After our bout, Prince and his trainer asked me to work his corner and I said, 'no problem!' How can I dump one fighter to be with another... when I don't train either one of them?!"
Much of the confusion stems from McGirt's previous work with Johnston, and Ajamu training at McGirt's gym in Vero Beach during April and May. Ajamu was there because he was Antonio Tarver's chief sparring partner for Tarver's preparation for Bernard Hopkins in June - well before Ajamu got the word that he would face Jones. Since Tarver is trained by McGirt, and Tarver was the first man to starch the daylights out of Jones, it would seem obvious that Ajamu would try to extract every ounce of knowledge from McGirt as humanly possible. McGirt states: "When Prince got the fight with Jones, he and his trainer (Denny Brown) were already here. They would ask for my advice on Jones, and I told them what I thought. When I saw Prince training, I gave him encouragement. But that doesn't make me his trainer! In fact, Prince took his training camp to Idaho three weeks before the fight, while I stayed in Vero to work with Arturo (Gatti) and William."
Regarding Johnston, McGirt explains: "I used to train Stevie up until three months ago, but his manager decided to take him to another gym in Vero. They hired Henry Hill, who worked his corner Saturday night. Henry is Stevie's trainer. Not me. In fact, I haven't heard from Stevie since he left. I only found out about his fight with Vivian Harris when I was in New Jersey for the press conference for Arturo and Carlos Baldomir. When I heard about it, I thought: 'Damn!... Stevie's only got two weeks?!' I like Stevie. He's a hell of a fighter. But in my opinion, you don't take a fight against a top contender on such short notice, because the most you've got to train is a week, or a week and a half. After that you've got the traveling and the press conferences. I think it was a crazy move to fight Vivian. He was getting ready to fight Arnaoutis, so you KNOW Vivian was in tip top shape! And he was coming off a loss, so you know he's extra hungry too. You just don't do something like that, especially when you've come back from recuperating from a serious car accident, like Stevie did. If he had more time to prepare, I think the outcome would have been different."
As one of the most sought after trainers in the sport, jaws dropped wide open in 2003 when McGirt shockingly declined to train 'Iron' Mike Tyson for his fight with Clifford Etienne - simply because Etienne asked him first. McGirt, a former jr. welterweight and welterweight champ himself, is widely known to never leave his Florida gym where he trains a huge stable of amateur and professional fighters. The famed coach concludes: "I don't want people to think I dumped Stevie to work Ajamu's corner, because it isn't so. I would never do something like that to a fighter, and I just want to set the record straight."Comment
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If Buddy didn't want to be there, he would have been with Stevie Johnston at his fight with Harris.Originally posted by badblood
Buddy's spreading himself around, and was asked by Ajamu to be in his corner. He wanted another crack at being in the winning corner of Roy, only it didn't play out that way.
It was just another notch in a horrid year for Buddy.Comment
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Yo Bozo, did you get my emails?Comment
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Buddy kept saying "Come on man!! STOP HITTING HIM LOW!!!" The ref, some old hic from Idaho took points away and warned him to stop over and over again but would never just DQ the guy.Comment
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He should've dqed the guy by the 6th round with all of Badi's Bull****.Originally posted by badbloodComment
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Damn RWK that's a bad ass video.Comment
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