Fighters who sparred a lot before a fight and fighters who sparred limited rounds

I know Nigel Benn didn't spar much. Didn't Yarde do the same for a very long time as well?

https://www.606v2.com/t69939-nigel-benn-ring-magazine-the-best-i-faced

After 'best handspeed' on Benn.

 

LaMotta and Toney are said to have had sparring as pretty much their only training. Probably a bit of an exagerration, but no doubt they sparred lots.

 

Julio Cesar Chavez Snr basically just sparred and had countless non-title fights to keep in shape.

At his peak he travelled to Spain, according to some sources (not verified) I´ve spoken too he would down a can of beer after every round of sparring.

Might be true considering the "body" blows he landed in his non-title fight in Madrid:

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I think They just made that up, since it made for good headlines.

Manny Stewart said that when He first came to Chavez's camp, He was drinking beer inbetween rounds, so perhaps it is true ).

 

The best spar a lot, the best also lie and say otherwise Max Holloway is an MMA guy who claims not to spar… he also said he was just trolling on Joe Rogan? to another fighter lol @themaster458 you heard of that? Larry Holmes did some slow running and sparred then sparred some more. JCC ran and sparred… eventually it was just sparring, old timers didn’t spar as much and kept sharp with light sparring because they fought so often, I doubt LaMotta did that much hard sparring in his career for the periods when he was fighting so often… Mayweather Jnr sparred a lot and so did Hagler and Hopkina from memory.

 

Terry Norris was notorious for hard sparring sessions. All of that extra sparring is likely why his speech is so slurred today. James Toney as well.

 

Monzon did an interview once stating he never went hard in sparring, that it was only to sharpen certain little things in preparation for a given fight.

Not sure if that necessarily means he sparred less, per se, just that it was tactical training only. No macho stuff allowed with that at all in his camps.

 

Before Monzons fight in Denmark against Tom Bogs, Monzon had two argentinian sparring partners who gave Monzon a lot of stick. On the last day of sparring, Monzon knocked out both sparringpartners in one round each, just to show who was the boss. Poor Bogs also got a severe beating. Monzon was a monster.