Ruslan Provodnikov is now trained by Freddie Roach.

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by IntentionalButt, Jan 17, 2012.


  1. DrMo

    DrMo Team GB Full Member

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    :good He looks the part but has been awful.
     
  2. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    :lol: Yeah, Roach does have "honorary/deputy/emeritus coach" status for a lot of the guys alleged to be in his stable. There is no way he has enough hands-on face time for more than a very small fraction of them. Pacquiao, obviously...Khan and maybe a handful of others.

    It isn't like the news was reported as "Provodnikov starts training at WC", though. It would have been stupid for me to announce that he's trained by Roach if that is all that was said. Montoya and Kim specifically said he was newly under the tutelage of Freddie himself, else I wouldn't have repeated it as such. :good So if they don't actually wind up working one-on-one, blame those guys. Don't shoot the relay messenger. :yep
     
  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Come to ponder on it, is there even a distinct style of "Freddie Roach fighter"? :think

    My initial thought was that Ruslan wasn't his usual type (thinking of the fast flurryers, which the Russian is very much not) but after thinking on it more the only real commonality between his trainees are that they all tend to be aggressors who like to come forward and emphasize power punches. Other than that, they are pretty varied.

    I mean, Pacquiao and Khan fight similarly but that has more to do with parallels in their natural attributes and the foundations they each had before setting foot in California. Neither is anything like Toney (who some will remember was previously Roach's prize pupil and stable star, before Pac really got big...and James himself got big in a less flattering way...)

    I don't know that there is a set identifiable Roach style so much as he just finds existing positives in every lump of clay that comes into his grasp, and sculps them to accentuate those positives.

    If Ruslan gets some doting and isn't left like another of so many piglets climbing and stomping desperately to get a teat under their snouts, this could be pretty good for him. He won't become a defensive wizard; he was never fated to be one. Roach can take the existing positives of his offence and really jif 'em up, though. That's kind of a scary proposition for anyone tossed in the arena with him.
     
  4. cippi

    cippi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    roaches fighters dont all fight the same but i do think he applys certain styles to the fighters that are capable of executing them. pac,khan, and JCC JR all learned a few things that roach installed in each of them . when those fighters fight they all remind me of pacman therefore roach prolly has sumthing to do with it. however pac excutes it by far the best mostly because his stamina spped and power n he could keep it up for 12rds.

    then there other fighter like toney n current fighter lateef kayode where u cnt find a similarity between ne of them compared 2 all his other fighters