Sergey Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal II & Dmitry Mikhaylenko vs. Karim Mayfield RBR

Well, there is a bit of stank in the air between them, even if they've never worked opposite corners (which I'd find odd if true, as both have been world class trainers for several years). JDJ made these comments six years ago:

“As far as Freddie is concerned and I like Freddie and we are friends and he might get mad at this, but I could care less though. Listen Freddie is blessed to have one guy in his career that has stood up for him and that’s Manny. Manny is making the money he should make. With Freddie’s ailments he doesn’t have a pension in boxing to fall back on, he doesn’t have a health plan so the money he is making is going to help him out for what he needs in the future and god bless him for that. People ask me all the time is Freddie a great trainer? Freddie is not a great trainer. Freddie inherited a lot of good fighters when he first came out of the game. How in the world could you be a punching bag as a fighter, getting hit numerous times, he may get mad at me, but look at the films, look at the fights. He caught a lot of punches. How could you become a great trainer and teach defense when you never had defense yourself? It makes no sense. Let me say this in my defense before it sounds like I’m bashing. I’ve talked to a lot of fighters that Freddie has trained, a lot of my friends, and they all tell me the same thing that Freddie never taught them anything as far as professional boxing was concerned. Most of these guys knew how to fight when Freddie inherited these guys. I’m not going to name names, but a lot of the good fighters he’s had already knew how to fight when Freddie got with them, he didn’t teach them from day one so his teaching was not needed.

One thing about Freddie and I’ve watched Freddie in the gym and for a man with the ailments that he has he will bust his butt and give you 110% of what he has. He will push you in the gym and I will give him credit for that. He is a very good motivator and he will push you. As for a teacher I watched him in camp with Bernard, you can’t teach a man how to fight that has been boxing for twenty something years. With a guy like that you might add a few things to his game or devise a game plan for him, but when the bell rings most cats know what they are going to do once the bell rings. Most of the stuff you showed them in the gym goes out the window because most guys have to improvise once that bell rings. So most fighters improvise once the bell rings, they adjust once the bell rings. You might teach them one hundred days straight, but when the bell rings, they might think ‘forget that ****’ and improvise. Freddie is a good guy and he will push and give you 110% of what he’s got and he will get you ready for a fight, but as far as teaching I don’t see the teaching and I’ve watched him and he’s a good guy and he might get mad and we might never speak against, but as far as teaching, no. He might show you some stuff, but its overkill. Teach the guy what they need to know, but you can’t teach me stuff you never did. How are you going to show me something you never did in the ring, it doesn’t work.

Freddie hasn’t made Pacquiao complete this guy still makes a lot of mistakes, but it’s going to take the winner of Mosley-Mayweather to expose those flaws. Everybody he is fighting is handpicked and you can’t blame the fighter for that. The promoter and the manager are making these fights for Manny and they are being smart and cashing out with this guy. I’m not blaming them and they are doing what they are supposed to do and he’s making all the money he can make in a short amount of time and they are doing the right thing for this kid and god bless them for that because every fighter wishes they had a promoter doing that for them. One thing about Freddie its kill or be killed he didn’t care and that was his saying and he’s probably given Manny the offense, the attack that he needs and that’s helped Manny a lot, but defensively he’s lacking, trust me, he gets hit a lot. Not these last few fights, but the Marquez kid and those smaller guys would tattoo him a little bit. He’s been rocked and he’s been hurt.

 

Same as most rap, presumably. :conf

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