Boxers giving Atlas **** on Facebook

Atlas talks too damn much. His tuff guy image makes for good commentary at times, but he's a real ass. The advice he gives in the corner sometimes over rated imo. He's funny as **** though, so I guess he's cool. I do believe he has a sincere desire to fix some of the wrongs in the sport.

 

Yeah... I'm gonna need OP's display picture full size.

 

I rather enjoyed Teddy's book, I'm a fan of his...

 

Gets me the way he talks about decency, this from a guy that was going to shoot Donny Lalonde, put a guy to Tyson's head.

 

i have to jump right in here cause i LOVE teddy. and i saw glaser's facebook but didn't comment yet. maybe I will now cause teddy deserves respect. no, i never met him and i don't box but **** it, he's a legend and ALWAYS puts fighters first. **** the flack from moorer: without teddy he never would have won the belt and if he listened to him he'd never have lost it to foreman

 

Moorer didn't even listen to Atlas.

During the Holyfield fight:

Atlas: *pleads in the corner with dramatic speech about taking advantage of your one opportunity*

Moorer: *sleep-walks some more in the ring*

Even Jim Lampley said "Moorer is going to get another scorching in the corner from Teddy Atlas after his performance in this round"


During the Foreman fight:

Atlas: "Don't stand in front of him, he's looking to set you up"

Moorer: *stands too long in front of Foreman and gets KTFO and relieved of his title*

 

Atlas obviously is knowledgeable about boxing and the technical aspects, but it hasn't translated to a very good track record with e-light (to quote Manny Steward) fighters.

I used to find Teddy annoying due to his rambling, attention-seeking antics, and hypocrisy (speaking loudly against mismatches but putting his own fighters in with overmatched opponents), but lately he's grown on me and I don't mind him much anymore. I also find some of his random analogies rather amusing.

 

Some of them are ...extremely random. "The guy is like shampoo and then his opponent is like hair. ...What he needs is some conditioner!"

Ten minutes later, when you think he gave up on it:

"See, this is what I'm saying about the conditioner. Jones has to rinse and repeat but he ain't doin' it and he's gonna get some dandruff back on his shirt, Joe."

If I were Tessitore I'd be halfway between laughing hysterically and sticking a fork in my eye to escape.

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, i'm a teenager, and i thought we were both loyal SNV fans :-(

 

True...but if you molest my niece, ima be all :twisted: and go Atlas on your ass. Otherwise, you're one of the good ones, little brother.

 

Atlast is an ******* and he is terrible at picking fights, beyond terrible.

He has picked against Wlad for like the last 15 fights in a row.


And he cant even be professional and unbiased with his comments. I saw some article about top heavyweights or whatever that was in a nonboxing magazine and Atlas was going on about Tyson crumbling to opponents that fought back and that Tyson was a "bully". Thats a complete load of **** and its really sad that Atlas still cant get over his beef with Tyson from the ****ing 1980s. I think a lot of it was jealousy that Cus showed Tyson more attention than him. He slams him every chance he gets and its like almost 30 years later.

 

I think that's pretty funny, actually. I'm almost sure a lot of times he goes for the upset guy not because he really thinks they win but because people will laugh it off if he's wrong but if he's right, all of a sudden, he's a ****ing genius and nobody but we die-hards that talk boxing all the time will even remember his years worth of shitty, stupid picks.

 

nice try more like 15 as already stated above

 

Yeah he probably got Brewster and Sanders right. So even though he is really only right about %12 of the time, he can still claim those upsets.

 

I don't mind the guy.

Say what you want about him, but he's not the worst.