Richie Woodhall's key to victory tactics.

Haha funny enough I was telling the same thing to my mate last night. Same tactics everytime

 

When in doubt, stick the left hand out!

 

Ex-top "text book" amateur.

 

Froch just didn't have the physical gifts needed to make the jab work. As soon as Ward opted to go on the inside it was effectively over, because it became clear that Ward was the stronger man.

 

It's unusual to see a former standout amateur from the modern era that can actually fight on the inside.

Ward has probably become as good as he has because he's not had the silver spoon treatment that so many others get, such as British lads.

For a kid with 25 fights his record is excellent. He's dominated Kessler, Abraham and Froch in very impressive fashion, you get the feeling the best is yet to come from him too.

The fight went more or less as I expected, with Froch having more of his success on the outside/at mid range, and Ward dominating him in close. A couple of the cards were a bit off, 9-3 was about right for me.

 

No version of Froch could trouble Ward really. Just far to slow and Ward is a far better boxer. He had a punchers chance but tbh thats about it

im still a fan though, absolute warrior

 

Richie is textbook as Gaz said, he's been born and brought up on 'work everything off jab'.

 

I don't know I think Ward wasn't battle hardened in the way say Carl Froch was going into the Super 6. But for me that's what makes Wards form so impressive, going into the Super 6 he was taking a massive step up and he had only really faced one notable opponent and that was Edison Miranda. Otherwise he had faced a pretty low level of opposition and although I wasn't following his career before the Miranda fight from reading reports from some of those fights he did not sound all that impressive.

I haven't seen much talk of this (admittedly I have only just logged into ESB so missed out on the RbR) but for me one of the keys to his victory yesterday was his footwork. I couldn't help but be extremely impressed by the way Ward always had Froch unbalanced and completely nullified anything Froch had to offer by controlling the range beautifully.

 

Richie Woodhalls a tosser. Used to respect him but he talks shite and is bitter about Max Maxwell not getting shot at the British title. Max Maxwell got starched in one in an eliminator then had the bare arsed cheek to moan about it on ringside about how his lad should have got a shot at Prince Arron.

Faux Pas Monsieur Woodhall..... :nono

 

He didn't get starched in one, he lost due to a farcical call by the ref.

 

I must admit i have lost respect for Woodhall, his nuthugging of Smith in the Simpson rematch was **** poor IMO. He couldn't crawl any further up Khan's arse either last week on ringside.