What Tunde Ajayi said to Yarde inbetween rounds

Better than Teddy Atlas in some ways.

Do you believe in Magick??

 

No one beats Virgil for nonsensical gibberish in the corner.

 

Hahaha what a ****ing clown.

 

The contrast in the quality of advice between the two corners is stark. Who tells a fighter to empty the tank before a round has even started? Even if he has said 'if you get him going, don't let him off the hook' but 'empty the tank'? In the 8th?

Fraud.

 

What’s with all the “lions in the camp” crap?

I’m glad I live nowhere near London

 

Buddy, buddy!.. BUDDY ANT... BUDDY?!?!?!!


At least Tunde got that right...

 

What’s wrong with how he was coaching? I think that shows he did a great job, almost pulled it off in the 8th round. The only thing I’d change is in the later rounds he shouldn’t have been trying to hype Yarde up, he should’ve been trying to get him to relax and focus on the process (to conserve energy). Two thirds of the fight the advice was spot on, it almost happened.

 

that would be cool if Lennox Lewis trained Yarde... for some reason I think they would be a good team.

 

Is it such bad advice? Yarde no longer had any hope on the cards, if there'd ever been any? He may not carry his power much longer and Kovalev had previously shown that by this stage he could tire. He was very, very close in that round. Much closer than anyone really expected him to get.

I think however if you give that advice, you need to throw the towel in if, as was obvious by the tenth, it hadn't worked and your brave but exhausted and outclassed fighter is getting taken apart.

 

Yes it is bad advice. He was behind on the cards and probably had to stop Krusher, and at that point he had five opportunities (rounds) to do so. That was distilled down to one chance. Did Ajayi know at that point how well Kovalev had recovered from the body punches in the 7th? No. Was there any clear evidence Kovalev was ready to go based on the 7th? No.

Did he have to 'empty the tank' to test out how weakened Kovalev was? No. He was having success in the 7th, so maybe 'more of the same Anthony' or 'keep targeting the body' would have been more prudent.

Think about the phrase 'empty the tank' and how that might impact Yarde at the time. It's something you might say at the beginning of the 12th not the 8th.

It was like betting all the money on red at a roulette table. Someone else's money.

 

The problem is is that there was barely any tactical advice. It was mainly motivational platitudes, or the obvious 'more of the same'.

Yarde barely had a jab. He was throwing lead left hooks, and he was loading up on everything, which was tiring him out. He also couldn't slip Kovalev's jab. Kovalev, due to having a strong jab and using good solid footwork, was controlling the fight. Any decent trainer would notice this and give advice accordingly.

 

That was awful advice from Tunde. I cringed at the lack of understanding he had for the fight game.

 

OK Tunde just needs to be fired. He's a danger to his fighter and boxing as a whole if he's not going to protect his fighters health instead of thinking of his own share of the purse.