Magomed Abdusalamov

Did you even hear his corner give any advice other than keep punching? To me his corner put too much faith in his punching power. Never giving any thought to his defense. His corner has eyes, they saw what was happening to their fighter, why then did they not tell him to stay on the outside, use his jab move his head, try to tie Perez up. Not one word that pertains to defense. You can defend his terrible corner all you want but, they did a **** poor job of protecting their fighter.

 

I was responding to a post that said his trainers -- and I'll bet if you check back to the day he first stepped into a gym he has probably had other trainers and not just the ones in his corner last night, but regardless -- did not ever TEACH him basic defensive skills.

We don't know what they tried to teach him. But surely you recognize that you don't TEACH in the corner.

That is what I was responding to.

I don't assume that a guy who doesn't get his hands up or move his head has never been told to do so. My experience is that he's probably been told to do that many times and it's about the most frustrating thing in training fighters to get them to do the basics. With punchers it is even harder because they fall in love with their power and think that it will always bail them out, and many develop a mentality that they are willing to take two to land one because they put so much faith in it.

I don't know what they did or did not try to teach him. None of us do. But I find it hard to believe that nowhere in his development did anyone attempt to teach him to defend himself better. The fighter bears some responsibility -- the first rule is to protect yourself at all time, and I seriously doubt anyone hid that from him.

All this is beside the point: I hope and pray he comes out of this with full brain and body function and goes on to lead a useful life. And I hope others learn from it -- fighters, cornermen, ringside doctors, etc.

But I just about guarantee two things: sometime in the near future a fight is going to be stopped where a fighter is taking a beating, and posters on this board and others will go ballistic over it rather than saying, "well it's better than having him risk permanent brain injury."

 

I hope he pulls through this!

 

Hope he is ok, he will need to consider his future in the sport after this.

 

****, I hope he recovers 100% healthy. Perez and Mago fought like warriors last night.

 

its a fact bro.

http://is.gd/zaYXeY

 

John David Jackson insisted that he take some power off his punches and concentrate on accuracy, volume and head movement so yes he was giving the correct advice. Mago was way to concerned regarding his swollen jaw and seemed to lose concentration not taking instructions to heart.

 

This

 

I was saying that on another thread . . . someone was talking about he had a punchers chance. I said it does not matter, the health of your fighter has to come first.

I Really, really like Mago and hope he has a quick recovery

 

That sucks.

Hoping that he pulls through and comes out ok.

 

the corner didn't no his own fighter . i read what mago was thinking. when mago asks how swollen is my jaw and hes concerned about it that's a good indication right there. but mago has so much heart that he will fight on no matter what. and thats when a good trainer will stop the fight even if the the fighter wants to continue.

i always loved ricky weeks as a ref, but after the alvarado fight how he stepped in like do u want to continue and made him answer , i know he got to the point and the right result was made but still i dont think thats the right way to go about it. i dont think that question should even be asked just to save ur fighter of being a quitter. the trainer should take all that.

 

Hope he gets better soon.

 

I wish him full recovery. Get well soon, Mago!

 

any updates?

...and i hope they were able to melt the blood clot right away.