Richardson Interview: "People would rather see Floyd Hit the Pads than fight"

I like his mentality going in, he's not taking anything for granted and is accounting for the strengths and the weaknesses. This is probably the best corner situation we could get with SSM.

 

See without looking

 

Floyd boys are unusually quite on this thread. wonder if Naz isnt black, they would probably be all over here.

 

Nazim is Jedi! What a quote!

AK: I know it's part of the contract that if someone gets a stoppage they get an extra ten percent of the purse. Is Bernard going to go after the KO?

NR: Bernard, you saw against Pavlik, he won every round. In the last round he tried to knock Pavlik out. You saw against Trinidad, he won every round, in the last round he knocked Trinidad out. Against Enrique Ornelas, he went out in the last round and tried to get Ornelas out. Bernard is a gladiator, and gladiators will leave everything on the battlefield. Bernard is warrior who fights behind a strategy. We realize you can be a warrior and fight with strategy. Sun Tzu was a warrior, but he was one of the greatest strategists in history. So was Genghis Khan. Just because they were smart in the middle of the battle, didn't mean they weren't willing to take a guy on in the middle of the field. So damn the clause! If the clause weren't there we'd still try to knock Roy out.

 

I love it how people eat **** like that up and proclaim him a boxing sage based on it.

 

Good stuff. Needs to write a book.

 

A good trainer, but people need to tone down on the sycophancy. He's just a bloke.

 

"Mayweather needs the 24/7. Now I have a great deal of respect for him, but let me put it this way, have you seen the trunks Floyd wears? Have you seen the chinchilla? That's some fancy **** he wears. It's nice, it's some fancy ****. Now let me ask you a question. What did Tyson come into the ring with?

AK: Just black trunks, not even a robe.

NR: See, you don't need all that extra **** when you knock people the **** out. Shane doesn't need that stuff when he knocks out Margarito and Mayorga You don't need that stuff when you knock a joker in the mouth. You don't need the tassels or whatever. The crowd like the KO.

So if you ask somebody which guy they want to watch, the guy with the fancy outfit, or the guy who knocks people out. You ask them who they want to see?

See 24/7 is everything for the Mayweathers. They need that stuff. They give you flash and talking, they need that stuff.

Because not everybody who steps into the ring is a warrior. Michael Buffer is in the ring and he's not a warrior. The ref isn't a warrior. And some of the guys with gloves on aren't warriors.

Shane is a warrior. When he gets into the ring he wants to knock a joker out. Now! I have to hold him back, "Hey, let's stick with the gameplan." Because that's who is. That's a part of him he's a warrior.

I don't have to teach Shane how to fight. Jack Mosley taught Shane how to fight. And he did a hell of a job. I just have to remind him of a few things. Point out a few things in Margarito and Floyd. That's all I have to do."

 

he's right how Floyd tried to stop Marquez at some point but saw he couldn't do it and just gave up on the idea. He should've gotten that KO

 

A wins a win. He don't need the KO when he shut Marquez down completely.

 

But he tried to get it and wasn't able to.

 

hardcore floyd fans would not like nazeem too much here. if this was roach talking, they would all be here now cursing and dissing-out poor freddy.

 

bull****, he should have knocked marquez the **** out, marquez was fat and overblown, can you imagine what any other welterweight would do?

i was upset at the mismatch but i was hoping atleast floyd puts on a show and finishes him off.

 

So what do Floyd fans say to this then? Nazim Richardson doesn't know boxing? He doesnt appreciate the "sweet science".

Bloody armchair warriors trying to define what boxing is all about, according to them, boxing or "the sweet science" was built on the foundation of a ballet and not 'fighting'.