If You Were The Trainer For Margarito.....

Make sure his stamina is at its usual best. He'll need to have enough in the tank to:

• Cope with Pac's high pace and brush his shots off.
• Cut off the ring intelligently (because Manny's footwork is going to be a massive challenge).
• Walk him down like he did Cotto.
• Throw volumes and volumes and volumes of punches himself.

There's no other way. He shouldn't try to do something he can't do (box). Just work to his strengths and make it as competitive as you can. He should also take advantage of the 6 inch reach advantage he has. Jab the **** out of him. Manny doesn't like jabs.

 

conditioning and stamina...

 

throwing a stiff jab will be key

 

Ping pong. Lots of it.

 

I would work on clinching and fighting on the inside. He also has to cut the ring off very well. If he can make Manny back up and tie him up whenever Manny gets going, he has a real shot at winning this fight.

 

GEOMETRY... margo need to learn angles, side angles, right angle, side step angle, and lots of angles.

 

"Straight right hand", "Left Uppercut's" & a "Consistent Jab"
The man is in his 30's, This ain't Rocky he ain't gonna learn how to dance this advanced in..

 

I would make Margo more of a straight up boxer puncher. Use his height and reach, and get Pac coming forward, and just bust him with a jab and a righthand. I would have him fighting a tall controlled pace and not all that defenseless offense, because Manny will kill him in the angles.
Pac is open for a jab thats clear, so you get the guy coming forward and use your height and Margaritos size to do a number on Manny. Use Margaritos size to tie Manny up in close where hes really effective with angle punching and keep the fight at distance where Margarito can use his jab and long righthand.
These guys keep testing higher waters of size with Manny, and Margarito is a very strong guy, so it will be interesting to see how he handles the fight.

 

do you think there's enough time to change Margo's style in time for the fight though? it seems too tall an order to ask for an overhaul of Margo's style. I'm thinking tweaking his current pressure fighting style would be better as opposed to changing it completely.

 

plaster of Paris.

 

I was waiting for someone to say this......He's got plenty of stamina - his problem is that he blocks punches with his face. H needs to practice head movement and counterpunching, and definitely using the jab more.

 

This, Margarito needs to be doing what he's done thrughout his career, only slightly better than he's done it in the past.

It's going to be a hard task, I'd tell him to keep his hands up to avoid getting caught by counter right hooks time and time again, and I would also try to get him to cut off the ring enough so that he's not in harms way of lethal body punches.

Basically, Margarito will be taking hellacious head shots all night, I don't think there's a trainer in the world who can change that fact. We'll all see how much the whuuping Mosley put on him will affect him.

 

I would tell him to do the best Joshua Clottey impression he could and cover up for 12 rounds

 

Thats not really changing his fighting style. Hes tall, he can throw a jab and a pretty good righthand. All you have him working on is tieing up on the inside. As the fight progresses he can open up a bit more on the inside, but I would really work on using his size to manhandle and push Manny around in close to wear him down. Its not really changing the guys style much at all, were not talking about turning him into Ali, just holding back and controlling his offense a little more from the outside. Manny is just going to be too quick for him on the inside and in close so you have to use his physical attributes to keep the fight out of that range.