Emmanuel Stewart's Predictions

I was watching Hearns-Barkley the other night from 1988. Emmanuel Steward predicted Hearns by KO in the early rounds. Of course, it was Hearns who was KO'd in the third.

Last week, Stewart predicted Taylor to KO Pavlik in the first six rounds. Now he's saying in less than 3. I get the impression he's making such statements more to boost Taylor's confidence than anything else.

Can anyone recall any other Stewart predictions (regarding his fighters) in the past, and whether or not his predictions were accurate?

 

Yes, its one of his jobs to boost his fighters confidence to some degree. Making his fighter delusional isn't.

Just because he is a world class trainer, doesn't mean that he can't predict a fight wrong. He has to believe that what he is doing works. If it does, is up to Taylor and Pavlik on fight night.

 

great thread never knew this

 

this is very true but it took him 8 over an old tyson

 

that is true also but that fight was pretty much over by the third.

 

"Yea...Lewis would destroy Tyson and we laughed and then we cried"

Can't believe I forgot that one. I, for one, didn't laugh at that prediction nor cry after it happened. I thought Tyson had worn out his welcome long before that fight.

 

Just read this on maxboxing:

"[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Why are Emanuel Steward and Jermain Taylor going out of their way to call Kelly Pavlik an “ordinary” opponent? Normally, you don’t do something like that, because if Taylor wins, this diminishes the credit he’ll get for winning, and if he loses, then it really makes Taylor look bad. Win or lose, you always want to portray your opponent as a killer. The only explanation I can think of that makes sense is that Steward started this campaign because his fighter has confidence issues. We’ll see how it plays out this Saturday, but to me, this talk from the Taylor camp only makes me feel better about picking Pavlik to win."

Makes perfect sense to me!
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manny steward doesnt make predictions..he watches four rounds and then says "this fight is going exactly as I predicted"

 

What do you mean by that? What do you call it when he says "This fight won't go 6 rounds. Taylor will win by knock out." Sounds like a prediction to me.

 

That does make sense. I guess we will find out for sure this saturday!

 

I fully agree. all this talk about kelly being normal is not a good sign for taylor. It must be designed to build him up. And personally for emmanuel to start saying that there is going to be an early stoppage is just really out of character. Manny is the king of getting his guys to control the fight with there jab and boxing ability, breaking there opponent down and then taking him out. One of the above posters just talked about the lewis tyson fight, he commented on how it took lewis 8 rounds to end tyson, as though its a testiment to tyson that he lasted 8 rounds. Well it wasn't the only reason tyson lasted eight rounds, it was because manny had lewis on a leash. watch the fight, at the end of every round manny talls him to "not get careless", "jab" and "to keep him at a distance" and all that other stuff that he always spouts off. which is how manny rolls. I mean when was the last time manny actually told a guy to go to war? Probably the 70s or something or maybe even never. And now he's saying that Germain is going to get this guy out of there in three......Which is as good as saying Germain's going to war......thats just soo out of character that its got to worry a taylor fan.


I think Taylor knows in his heart that he feared miranda and Pavlik had the balls to walked miranda down. And that has got to worry him.

 

it's a reference to stewarts commentating style on hbo where he just says at the end "it went exactly as i predicted"

 

We didn't know at the time but that fight was basically over when Lewis landed that uppercut in the first. I'm serious. Tyson went back to the corner and told Ronnie Shields that he was hurt.

 

If I believed my fighter was going to blowout an opponent that everyone else felt was going to make a competitive fight, I would certainly keep my mouth shut in front of the cameras. I would certainly tell my fighter hes ordinary and hes going to win easily, but right now Taylor's credibility is so bad, hes diminishing Pavlik so badly its going to diminish the win. I would sit there and agree with everyone that Pavlik is a devastating puncher, and a giant killer.
As far as Steward, he is very good at calling fights, and is rarely wrong.

 

But... But... "This is turning out exactly the way I expected"!