Discussing DeGale

The essentials here come with environment and sparring. He’s in a place where he is the biggest noise around and he likes that. He’s deeply insecure and needs reassurance. But it’s to his own detriment because he needs a good slap and told to sort himself out. He’s not entitled to a great career – he needs to earn one.

So first, move him away from home comforts. Go to the US, to Puerto Rico, to Mexico, and train somewhere different, that will provide challenges like different styles, higher-quality fighters, and different training techniques.

The biggest thing is the sparring. What’s the point of sparring with guys like Bellew in the long-term? Yeah, he’s decent, he’s got a good jab, but he doesn’t replicate the things James struggled with against Groves and the Pole.

He needs to be sparring rounded guys who can do it all, and force him to learn and adapt. But honestly, he’s a bit lacking in the intelligence department. DeGale’s level is abundantly clear to anyone with some perspective and he’s nearly at it.

Without a completely new approach, he won’t exceed it.

 

That just attests to how poor he is technically. Of all the shots to **** up, how can you get the jab wrong? He’s just smug and lazy and no-one’s correcting him.

All his physical gifts are undone by his awkward, ugly, useless style.