Worst corner Jobs

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  1. Contro

    Contro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Aaron snowell with Tyson vs Douglas and Jones vs Hall.
    One of the worst cornermen i have seen. Let Hall take waaay too much punishment. Told Hall at one point "start throwing those HARD bodyshots, but not power....speed!" when his fighter was one of the slowest i have ever seen but could atleast punch.
    Did not bring an endswell to tokyo and decided during training that headmovement, bodywork, the jab and combinations were not important to tysons success. He thought walking in without jabbing or moving your head, eating shots then maybe throwing a single bomb and letting yourself get tied up was the right strategy for tyson.

    Roy Jones Sr with Jones vs tarver 3
    arver was dead tired the last 3 rounds and Jones was way behind, he should have told his son to knock him out, Which he probably could have done!

    Trinidad Sr. with Felix vs Hopkins
    Telling his son he was winning the fight until the very end. SMH....

    Whoever trained pascal vs Hopkins in the rematch
    Fighting in spurts and inactivity was exactly why he wasnt successful with Bernard, yet his trainer told him to wait and then explode.
    Everyone knows that to beat hopkins you have to make him fight at a pace that he doesnt like.
     
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  2. MonagFam

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    Agreed on Tyson's corner vs Douglas. Doesn't seem hard to remember an endswell, no matter how fast you expect your boy to win.
     
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  3. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lou Duva with Meldrick Taylor - up on the ring corner while Taylor was taking his 12th round 8-count and he's screaming every instruction to Taylor who is completely buzzed and staring at Duva rather than watching the ref, who is asking him 'are you alright?'

    The Leon Spinks corner in the Ali rematch - Georgie Benton created the perfect strategy for their first fight, but by the time the second fight rolled around, Leon had invited a bunch of hangers-on into his corner. Benton was shut down while drivel was being spewed into Leon's ear such as, 'more gusto!' It was about the 8th round Benton had enough and walked out of the arena.

    Joe Goosen in the Rafael Ruelas corner against Mauro Gutierrez (I think that was his name) - it was their first fight and Mauro dropped Ruelas, but instead of looking at the ref, Ruelas is trained on Goosen at ringside who is holding up his fingers counting along with the ref. Unfortunately, while the ref was saying '10' Goosen was saying '9'.
     
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    N_ N___ Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Roger Mayeather rushed Zab Judah, almost getting Floyd DQ'd.

    Rahman's trainer had him pivot his arms to the sides when Lewis threw right hands in the rematch. Lewis went right around his arms and knocked him out.


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    There was the Muriqi fight where Teddy Atlas opted to commentate and work the corner. Muriqi ended up losing to a nobody.

    Norman Stone got tossed from that one Ruiz fight.


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  7. MonagFam

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    Does something where there is blatant or potential cheating going on count? The mix with Aaron Pryor? Can't remember the names but any of the various unpadded glove situations.

    15 round limit, weight cutting, and Mancini are brought up in regards to Kim's death, but does his corner share any blame?
     
  8. MonagFam

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    I thought about Duva with Taylor as well, but it had been great corner work for much of the fight, I gave them a pass.
     
  9. impacted

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    Curtis Stevens vs Golovkin. A white guy in a baseball cap kept shouting over Stevens' head trainer with useful advice like ''You're makin' him feel strong Curt!'' During a big televised fight, the guy simply had to be heard, whether it was of any use or not.

    Vince Cleverly yelling at a clearly out-of-it Nathan between rounds 3 and 4 to take it to Sergey Kovalev will always be the top of the pile when it comes to woeful corner work though.
     
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  10. turnip

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    The clowns in blackwells corner tell him its all part of the plan when Eubank jr was punching the daylights out of him .they could have got that bloke killed. total tools.
     
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  11. jarama

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    Duva for Meldrick Taylor

    Jeff Lacy's corner vs Joe Calzaghe
     
  12. MonagFam

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    Rocky Balboa ... Creed-Drago exhibition....on of the greatest champions of all time should not have been killed in two rounds.

    Mickey (slight pass for dying) and Paulie ...Balboa-Lang I

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    Jirov's corner in the Toney fight.

    "You got to beat on him" over and over when Jirov was throwing damn near 100 punches a round. How much more can you ask?
     
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    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Froch's wife yelling "Fk him up Carl, Fk him up" while he was getting schooled by Ward.

    Chris Byrd's wife screaming useless crap at him while getting pulverized by Wlad Klit.

    Barry McGuigans corner vs Stevie Cruz.....not a drink of water in 100F heat.
     
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