Mayweather: "Gamboa has told me all the secrets of Cottos trainer"

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"I always say, I don't worry about the trainer because the trainer cannot [url]

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[/url] for the fighter. And, you know, I sit down with Gamboa, so I know about his trainer," stated undefeated pound-for-pound champion, who revealed to a select group of media members that undefeated [url]

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[/url] sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa has been instrumental in providing him with information on Miguel Cotto's trainer, Pedro Diaz. The Cuban-born Gamboa was groomed in the Cuban amateur system before defecting to the United States shortly after winning a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. According to Mayweather, he's had extensive experience with Diaz, who led the Cuban amateur program for nearly two decades. In fact, Mayweather says that Gamboa has previously faced and beaten all the fighters that Diaz has worked with.

"Hey, I sit down with Gambo and Gamboa tell me about the Cuban trainer. Yo, Gamboa beat all his fighters already," Mayweather explained, reiterating that he's not at all worried about any game plan that Diaz may be coming up with for Cotto. Indeed, Gamboa has been a regular fixture at the Mayweather [url]

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[/url] Club over the past few months. While many assumed that he may have been there to seek advice from Mayweather regarding his decision to pull out of a fight with former lightweight champion Brandon Rios, it appears that it was actually Mayweather who was seeking information from Gamboa. With Cotto's advantage of working with a new trainer possibly being nullified thanks to Gamboa, Mayweather is unsure of what Cotto has that he can bring inside the ring to impress him.

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"When you guys ask me, 'Well, what do Miguel Cotto do good?' Y'all can tell me what he do good better than what I can tell y'all. You know, once I get in there with him, then I can say, 'He do this good and he does that bad.' As of right now, I don't know what he do good because what may work on another fighter is not going to work on me," Mayweather continued. "Like, he may face Margarito; Margarito, you know, his foot movement is not like mine, so he's able to spin him and pivot him. With me, when he pivot, I'm able to pivot and move, and quick and agile."

 

mayweather is really putting gamboa name out there, he has prob got more attetion these past few weeks then under all his time under arum.

 

i dont think u read the op, it says he was a national amateur trainer, gamboa trained under the guy for a while and fought a bunch of his fighters.