Emmanuel Stewart's Predictions

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.

 

manny steward doesnt make predictions..he watches four rounds and then says "this fight is going exactly as I predicted"

 

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"!