Pavlik MUST leave Youngstown for his own good, Ulli Wegner & Germany would be nice!

That's a quality answer, thx! At least I can argue (no Lajuan Simon or you-don't-know-**** argument ). You yourself pointed out most of the factors that are my main problems. A good trainer never underestimates anyone, because it's his job to understand the opponent (unlike biased fans) and prepare for him. There's no excuse to underestimate Hopkins who gave Calzaghe (underestimated by Loew) hell and schooled Tarver/beat P4P#2 Winky. And if you underestimate him you can still come up with a good idea during the fight, but Loew's knowledge really ended after about 3 rounds. What do you think, watching those tapes 10 more times would've given him better ideas? I think not. A fighter might understimate another fighter. There's no excuse for a trainer to do that.

It's good to have the family around, but that's another distracting factor. Boxing is a tough sport, and the camp might be the toughest part. But far away camps work because everything else than boxing is cut out, including quality family time, friends, charity, wandering around the city, etc. Focus, motivation and extra hard work comes from the desire to see the family and friends again, and win this **** not to let them down.

I don't think that Pavlik's style is too hard to understand for a trainer with decades of experience. IMO Loew himself has problems completely understanding Kelly's capabilities, because out of the coming forward, jab-right hand comfort zone, Pavlik is very beatable, and who to blame for that? There are a lot of fighters out there with smart movement, good defense, the ability to take away or effectively defend against the jab-right hand, Hopkins was just one, but HOW he did it (12 to 0 in rounds) is a very bad sign, and I say changes needed or Kelly will run into another loss as soon as he fights Bute for example. Maybe not as one-sided, but Booradley will still stand in the dark without a clue what happened, just in the Hopkins fight.

Obviously, there's a risk of change of venue and trainer, as you pointed out. But sometimes it's worth the risk. So forget Wegner (who as I said has a lot of knowledge to handle Kelly properly IMO). Steward maybe, he did a beautiful job with Wlad, but f*cked up Taylor. But you see Taylor is a natural talent fighting based on reflexes, speed and physical abilities, that's not Manny's style. He likes to use the textbook stuff over natural instinct, and he could teach Kelly a lot of things without f*cking him up. Richardson is more like a grand master understanding all the natural talent and huge amout of skills Hopkins and Mosley bring for example, and he adjusts the techniques to the talent, not the other way around. Anyway. My point is: I hear too many negative stuff, hopefully BS media stuff, which is - simply from a boxing career standpoint - is bad for Kelly and a change IMO is needed.

 

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You, for one it seems, you logged in just to comment on my post. Now calm down buddy, no one's gonna hurt you.