Buddy McGirt on Danny Greens wraps/gloves

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Tarver’s co-trainer, Buddy McGirt, believes that where his fighter will have optimum success is at 200 pounds.

"I told him from day one, when he said, ’Buddy, I’m going to heavyweight.’ I said, ’Antonio, I love you but you’re not a heavyweight, dog. 190-200, that’s you,’ because like when he used to come to camp, for instance when he fought Montell Griffin, he was boxing with Sherman Williams- now Sherman’s a natural heavyweight. Antonio was in the 190s when we started training and he was handling Sherman very well. I’m like, ’You’re a cruiserweight, dog, once you get through with the light heavyweights.’ When I got to Australia and I got to look at him and I knew he was ready. When I got there that morning and I saw the agility on the treadmill and I saw the agility he had and I saw the glow to his body, I said, ’Danny’s in trouble."

When asked if he felt his charge was the best cruiser on the planet, McGirt didn’t hesitate," Right now, yeah, for sure."

McGirt was in charge of making sure that everything was kosher in terms of Green’s hand-wrappings, which Jones had claimed were illegal and loaded.

"I watched everything; they allowed me to watch everything. They let me look at the wraps when they took ’em out of the package, everything. He puts a lot of tape on his wrists but my thing is, he’s not hitting the guy with his wrists. So as far as the hand, nah, everything was good," said McGirt. But there was an issue with the gloves that nearly had Tarver walking away from the fight. "Oh my God, it was crazy, "McGirt said, laughing loudly. "This was the issue; Antonio felt that when Danny Green got his gloves from Grant, it didn’t say Grant on it. So his thing was they had to take it out of the package with ’Green Machine’ on there. So he says, ’The glove must’ve been tampered with.’ I mean, Antonio’s about ready to walk out and then I put my hand in both gloves and I looked at Antonio and said, ’Man, put this f**king glove on’- he had the better glove.

"I mean, when I stuck my hand in Antonio’s glove and I stuck it in Danny Green’s glove and [Tarver] gave me that look like, ’Should I?’ and I looked at him like, ’You better put this f**kin’ glove on!’ Soon as he put his hand in there, he was like, ’OK, fight’s back on.’"