Atlas siad he orginaised a "dark exhibitionfight' for Povetkin

****, that sounds like teddy

the only other time i'm sure that was done was by leonard when he was training for hagler

 

If true that's pretty interesting. Do they really do that?

 

That's kind of a dumb idea.
If there's no crowd, no press, the opponent is not going to try to hard. All you are getting is an less safe sparring session.

Povetkin stopped a top 25 guy in three rounds...Povetkin is not a big puncher, I'm guessing what I said is what happened. Why take 12 rounds of pummeling if you get paid and no negative side effects from a loss?

 

Supposedly Leonard did this again after the Camacho loss - he wanted to know for sure if he was as shot as that fight suggested, without risking another humiliation. He took another beating from this unknown opponent and any doubts as to his final retirement were erased.

 

I thought there was video of this on youtube that someone has already posted here?

 

I remember Virgil Hill was pissed that Maske had fight with referee and no crowd prior their fight!

 

Maske had 2 or 3 of those before the remach with Hill but then he was out of the ring for 10 years.

You beat me to it.

 

It was James Toney

 

good to know guys:good

 

yeah that was a good call. when you are knocked out by a fat camacho, it's time to go

 

Gerry Cooney did the same thing before he boxed Foreman, Cooney had employed Clancy as a trainer for the Foreman fight and i heard he batered a decent tall heavyweight as a warm up without headgear in prepairation for George.. The Opponent i did find out years later from the man himself , a guy called Wesley P Watson from Tennessee.. ( lost to Mercer & Dokes also ) around that time, a decent athlete for a warm up to be honest........

 

Well if it is true than it was a great measuring stick for what he has to work with. I'm going to guess the guy they fought was probably Alexander Dimintrenko, because it would answer the same questions for him as it would of for Povetkin and if he is getting paid minus the tv coverage, its a win for all involved.

 

In the words of Jason Estrada at his last post fight presser: "Teddy Atlas don't know $hit!"