Grants won seven fights straight against C+ oppisition. Maybe he should step up to B- and fight the winner of Minto-Holmes.
Last fight was 8 months ago, and according to Bigcat he's pretty out of gym shape at the moment. I don't know if he's fighting on or not. He's almost 37. It sounds like he needs some hardcore training time to get his timing and conditioning down. If he could get that I don't see any reason why even this old Grant can't compete with the B- guys, but I don't know if he will get that. I'd like it to happen. But ultimately the one holding him back the most is still himself.
What a waste of talent, and I think most would agree with me that it was not Lewis that destroyed Grant it was Teddy Atlas
Lewis landed the punches not Atlas....Grant was a hype job who got exposed by Lewis....Teddy Atlas did the best he could for Grant...when he saw the ship was sinking he jumped off....can't blame him. Grant should retire.
Hard to say he was a hype job...he beat a lot of good contenders before the Golota fight. It is amazing how his career dropped off a cliff after the Lewis loss. Of course, I do remember the HBO hype. Especially before the Lewis fight...
It was arguably Don Turner that pushed the hype above anyone else, including HBO, as you'd expect for someone pushing the fighter they train. He'd gained a huge amount of credibility as Holyfield's trainer for the Tyson wins and leveraged that into talking up Grant. But it just didn't happen. And Turner ended up having a pretty rotten time of it from about 1999 onwards. I've seen an awful lot of Grant fights. He was not all hype. The guy had serious potential and beat credible contenders, certainly a lot more credible than the guys Ruiz beat to get his title shot for example. But when that confidence went, and Atlas stomped all over the rest of it, Grant was never the same and fought below his capability. Textbook case of the mental side of things being so important.
I wouldnt agree with this. Atlas tried to teach him how to fight in the gym. He couldnt do it, but it was needed to compete against the elite fighters. Grant was simply never that good.
the hate on teddy atlas here continues. seriously, with the exception of his HORRIBLE fight picks, he's a great analyst, dedicated and experienced coach and probably the sports biggest most prolific supporter
I used to not like Atlas but I do now as a commentator. He was absolutely nuts as a trainer, over obsessive. Fighting with people at press conferences, and screaming at his fighters and just overboard with the discipline factor. It was too much for him to handle too and Im glad he got out of it, hes an excellent commentator. It takes a special type of person to deal with him, and guys like Moorer and Tyson werent it.
very fair assessment of teddy :good one of my favourite boxing moments ever though was at that moorer-foreman press conference where teddy got pissed and started calling foreman a fraud and big george calmly turned around and said "get me a sandwich and sit down!". i would've gotten george any damn sammich he wanted at that point