So an Undisputed Champion had Boxersize Ben in his corner, and...a YouTube analyst?

I was freaking wondering if that was the same Lee Wylie...

And is he a boxing fella that started making YouTube videos or vice versa?

 

John Fury was mad at Ben for allowing Tyson to fight Wilder in 2018 and kept trying to keep him slim. Fury is a natural fat man. A big MON. Train him hard and give him the correct amount of calories and his looks don't matter.

Rushed into it but Tyson is his own man and makes them decisions. Same for anybody else. Wilder wouldn't have fought him if he felt he was a threat so it was a smart gamble.

Trainers are a small piece of the puzzle ,especially if they're picking up fighter LATE in their careers.

A boxer is almost a finished article after they've done it for 10+ odd years, it's very hard to change them. Very hard to add to them. They WILL revert to type when they end up in the trenches.

Fighters make the difference, especially when they are at the late stages of their careers. They have to make the choices and decisions.

Josh Taylor is overrated anyway. I keep hearing and seeing his name buzzing around the place all of a sudden but in a division like that it doesn't take much to get belts sniped off you.

 

I now want to see @Rumsfeld and Mathew Fouts as head trainers in opposite corners.*



* In fairness to @Rumsfeld, he's just putting his 2¢ in, whereas Fouts is actually selling himself as a master technique coach.

 

Absolute new age bollocks the lot of it. It is so funny seeing people who have never boxed getting excited by some simple insight or a online breakdown video. If you walk into any boxing club this is just normal stuff. Look at this Mark ****** on here, all excited by Fouts talking Absolute rubbish because he has never boxed. 99% percent of the Internet stuff is nonsense.

 

Taylor looks to be regressing… I'm not sure about Davison… The guy was a PE teacher a few years ago now he's some sort of expert genius trainer.. Haney doesn't look any better under him either to be honest.. i'm sure he's a nice lad and all the David Brent comparisons aside he is a good analyst but I just don't think he's a great trainer when you cut down to the substance of things.. The cringe pimp coats are laughable as well.. Josh for my money looked better under the McGuigans, they are much more strict and disciplined.. Frampton regressed after leaving them as well.. I mean Jesus… Telling someone like Josh Taylor he needs a knockout against a guy who most thought would be a walk over says a lot about Davisons abilities.. if I were Josh I'd take a long hard look at my current set up… I'm not convinced he'll be any better right now at 147… I would stay at 140 and regroup.. quite sad to see a fight out of that stature struggling like that even though I think Catterall is pretty damn good in retrospect..

 

If Fouts is too busy making videos hire @mark ant

 

I don't think Angelo Dundee ever boxed, either. True, Dundee probably knew a lot more, but being motivational is considered an important skill to have in these kinds of things.

 

Lots of the best sports coaches never made is as competitors in their sport, or at very least weren't successful at their sport.

Most of the great soccer coaches, rugby coaches, basketball coaches were never stars in their respective field.

Most of the best trainers in boxing around today never fought professionally or had limited careers.

The idea that you have to be a good boxer to be a great coach is silly.

 

People are throwing mud on Davison's name. In a few decades he would become another Angelo Dundee.

 

He's just one of those lads that can talk a good game, pretty much talked his way to where he is..
I couldn't believe taylor went with ben when I realised he was with him.

The Gift of the gab gets **** talkers to parts others cant reach lol