Tony Jeffries Last Night

Yup, Jeffries looked awful although I think he's a limted fighter anyway. He looked upset that his opponent didn't just fall over for him. His right hand is terrible, it falls short and he falls in with it.

 

His comment in the post-fight interview was revealing. He said something like 'we work on the boxing but I want Tony to go in there and get the stoppage, he likes to fight'.

That gives you an insight as to what they focus on in the gym.

 

Seemed to me to be a big difference talentwise Groves looked far better. I think Jeffries should fight away from Sunderland for awhile as the expectations are huge and are making him fight too aggresively really really impressed with Groves though.

 

Yes, I'm glad you reminded me of that. What a moronic comment from his coach.

 

Jeffries looked terrible last night, the fighter who he fought refused to go down off the first punch tony landed, something which jeffries didn't like!

 

He kept looking to the ref as well.

 

Yep, I think his trainer had a lot to answer for last night. It's a strange mentality to instill in your fighter against that type of opponent. Even if he goes in there 'to fight' and stops him in the first round he hasn't developed anything new because Jeffries has been all about that in his career. If he taught the right things in the gym he should have confidence the stoppage would come without explicitly encouraging it. The crowd and home town factor put even more pressure on him.

 

I think the main difference is that opponent was **** poor. Jeffries didn't start off too badly last night, its when the opponent hung in there, showed defence, toughness and durablity that Jeffries lost direction somehow and started falling in and getting desperate.

 

I thought Jeffries was okay for the first few minutes, which is basically when the guy in that video fell apart because he's a tomato can. He started off with a good hard jab, he was aggressive but wasn't making the mistakes he made as the fight progressed in terms of falling to his opponents trap and getting tied up, and just winging away with no real thought.

I think we learnt something new about Jeffries in that he's easily frustrated and lacks a more scientific approach when the stoppage is not forthcoming. No feints, no thought about picking the gaps, or creating gaps by varying his punches. Basically just no thought, and I blame his trainer for that. At no point did he seem to offer sound advice and his interview gave the game away.

 

That he wants Jeffries to fight, and he wants him to get stoppages.

As for his opponent, he wasn't as awful as the stats say. I took a look at his record beforehand and knew it might not be a blowout like his others. He's been stopped earlier in his career, but not so much recently and had done rounds with good European fighters. He was obviously a survivor that had learnt a few tricks to smuggle his way through fights, they didn't take that into account at all.

Groves was awesome, agreed. Very impressive all-round, don't think I could fault much except a few punches he took.