Demetrius Andrade: Another fighter ruined by the Amateur system

Really?

Think about it.

 

shouldn't it be the trainer's job to move him off of Amateur tendencies?

 

! What a load of RUBBISH ! , You don't know what you're talking about , Peter Quillin ( and his Cuban father ) would have LOVED being a student in the famous Cuban amateur program , ! Freddy Roach ! LMAO .

 

I don't think it's the amateur system itself, but spending too much time in it. It'll shorten guys' pro careers, and if they get too used to winning with bad habits, it's alot harder to fix what you've been doing in 250 amateur fights in 25 pro fights. Which is why a young guy like Alexander can't seem to improve and may have already peaked (or is close to it).

 

that's more than most pros fight in the amateurs and enough to develope those amateur tendencies you want them to get away from..

unless he's about to fight in the olympics or panam games or any other big time amateur competition boxers dont need to stick around in the amateurs they can turn pro with just a couple of fights

:hat

 

Quillin? Why the hell did you use him as an example, of all people? Oh, because he's black. Duh.

 

Stop looking at the World trough a Black & White perspective , only horses do that . Typical Klitschko fan . LOL . Peace .

 

Gamboa doesn't seem to have struggled to make the change...Rigondeaux isn't doing badly either...Ward's another one who's done well...

 

Povetkin, Gamboa, Rigondeaux and many others does not seem to suffer from this amateur disease?

 

Right!

So instead of blaming the amateur system, maybe "we" should stop to think.

So many(maybe most) good and great fighters come up through extensive amateur backgrounds. So maybe we should give the "system" credit.

 

I do admit that many fighters do come out of the amateurs "wrong" and that only a handful do go from one to the other excellently...but it's the American system that is failing, it's why Americans at the Olympics in recent years have been...awful

 

True , good post .Peace.

 

Yeah i know the Americans like to blame the current scoring system and rules for their lack of success, but other countries have been able to cope with the rules and scoring and go on to produce good pros, so the American system needs to blame no one but itself.

 

Amateur boxing used to be a lot better when they didn't make them wear headgear and stop fights at the drop of a hat.