state of andre berto's career

I think him testing positive for steroids hurt his career more than anything

 

Berto was getting drilled prior to hurting his shoulder(which was probably why he hurt his shoulder) and his shoulder is not the reason he lost to JSK in any case. Berto lost all these fights for the simple reason that he never worked on his craft to fix the flaws in his game. His defense has never been up to snuff, and though he has heart he doesn't have the chin to get away with that and expect to win against decent competition. He has never really learned how to box, he's just a brawler with fast hands. Always headhunts, doesn't have much stamina, always looking to bang his opponent out of there with one shot(usually the right uppercut), and when that doesn't work he doesn't adjust. In short, Berto is a talented fighter with heart, but unfortunately also a lazy and stupid fighter who has coasted on that talent against cans for the most part, and the last few years has been exposed. He can possibly recover if he shows he can learn, but at this stage of his career it's very unlikely.

 

Lol. Are you his promoter? Excuses, excuses. The guy is just not a very good fighter. The state of his career is freefall.

 

:deal

 

The biggest knock on him has been his record and resume. It just does not justify the amount of hype that surrounds him. He's a young talented fighter, I have no doubts he will bounce back ..

 

I never said I thought Berto was lousy and I did say he had heart, which is why he kept going with the shoulder. He is just a relative waste of talent. But once again, he was clearly hurt in the first round against JSK when completely healthy, and he wasn't exactly kicking his ass in Rounds 2-4 either. The "dropping" of Soto-Karass was a borderline shot and it was fairly clear that Soto-Karass was trying to sell it as a low blow(which he did earlier in the fight on a light low blow) and didn't get the benefit of the doubt. This was further made clear when JSK was so hurt by that knockdown that he proceeded to beat the candy out of Berto the rest of the round and stopped him in the early going of the 12th. You don't beat Soto-Karass by looking for one big shot as Berto always does. You either put punches together on him or you outbox him. No version of Berto as things stand ever does that.

 

Berto's losses were against physically imposing aggressive guys. He had no plan
B at all against any of them. That's why he lost

 

Fun to watch, but he's at the stage where he needs to watch who he's matched up against. He's exciting, but limited. Haymon needs to take it easy on Berto for the next year.

 

He was a young talented fighter 5 years ago... Now he's old and washed up. How exactly will he bounce back?

 

Absolutely! He can't expect to have a one dimensional approach and coast to a win. He's frustrating to watch.

 

He only knows how to fight one way and that one way only works against club fighters.