Sheriff Sr says fighters today athletes more than boxers

Whilst Breland was a top class amateur and one of the best ever, Lomachenko lost 1 out of nearly 400 fights. That’s a staggering statistic. Two gold medals and his success in world championships pips Breland’s career for me.

 

Eubank seems to have this serious attitude towards sparring, e tried to get his son to spar with an American boxer and when the boxer said he didn`t want to spar Chris calle him a coward, sparring is just a time to practise fundamentals, nothing more.

 

That`s not true, learning fundamtals and doing drills is how you improve.

 

Andries was not a skilled fighter and maybe all that hard sparring is why Benitez has severe brain damage now, silly taking hard punches in training.

 

You saw every minute of Breland`s amateur career?

 

A quick look at what’s available of his record online would indicate that he certainly didn’t have a 90% KO ratio. It was higher than most amateurs but he certainly didn’t KO 9/10 on the elite amateur stage.

For the record I really like Breland and thought he was brilliant. But I don’t think he quite touches the top amateurs of which I would class Lomachenko, Stevenson, Papp and Savon.

 

They also said he was the new Ray Robinson when he turned pro.

 

Nowhere near Ray`s level, Breland was just a poor man`s Tommy Hearns.