Is Joe Gallagher dangerous....

Come back Billy Graham!

 

Where is Billy Graham...? he built the most exciting and biggest fighter in Ricky Hatton since Brendan Ingle and Prince Naseem Hamed.

 

Well, PK has spoken.

Gallagher is good for the sport

 

True BB, but Hatton was a top amateur.

 

Thats the thing Mand, he squares up and looks for all the world like an old school slugger and as his earlier fights showed he's way better than that. In response to the TSs question, yes , it would appear so.

 

Its difficult to develop head movement when you've got gloves for ear warmers. The style is awful which in Crollas case is a shame because the lad really does have skills.

 

Yes, he does seem to be lacking in the defense department.

 

I'm quoting you because you neglected to do it yourself

 

The issue for Crolla was that his defence has no nuance - he just covers up and, like almost all Gallagher fighters in that mould, they are suckers for the uppercut.

Crolla needs two basic wrinkles added to his game:

1) move his head
2) step to the side when an opponent opens up and right after you punch.

Rather than working on body punching, those two things should be the big focus. The guy knows how to punch, he's got that **** down. He needs to know how to make himself a hard target and then transition to offence out of it.

Standing waiting for your opponent to blast themselves out isn't a long-term strategy. The trick is to find the gaps in their timing - Matthews kept throwing the right uppercut whenever Crolla threw a straight left - it was obvious and it was working. Stepping to the right takes that shot away and gives perfect leverage for a left hook to the body, THEN the right cross.

Basic fundamentals that Gallagher doesn't seem to instil. It's fine in training because everyone in that gym does the same thing.

 

This might just be me that thinks this but I feel Gallagher might be a bit too arrogant in his teaching methods, like he knows best and refuses to accept other ways of doing things and other tactics? I don't know but it would explain a few things imo?

 

Nice vid BB, just looked it up and Hatton's opponent Carter is still boxing!

When Crolla first joined Gallagher it looked like a good move, he put in some really good performances against the likes of Andy Morris. He works best behind his jab keeping things simple.

Dunno here but maybe the sparring they do in that gym gets pretty heated and it carries over into the fighters ring performances :think

Joe Murray also looks like he could be a classy boxer so I wonder how he'll develop under Gallagher :think

 

I haven't seen Joe Murray box in a while, but I remember him as a loose and fluid boxer that used plenty of upper-body movement. Has his style changed much towards what we come to expect from a Gallagher fighter?

 

He does seem very arrogant.

 

Gallagher added some inside technique to his game, which meant he was able to box and slug when needed. Unfortunately all Gallagher's fighters seem to ignore the boxing part and just try to out-work their opponents.

When Crolla got on the jab in the first two rounds he looked great. When he started piling in, he got clipped.

I think of when Murray hammered Thaxton - he was doing some nice little moves. Those side-steps when he was punching created fantastic angles to hit. Those tactics would have carried him through against Mitchell, IMO.

But between that and the Mitchell fight he'd just become a come-forward plodder without the punch.