the thing about Nazim Richardson as a strategist...

Yeah, I see where you're coming from man, mos def. And like you, I just don't see how Shane can muster the energy, both mentally and physically to make it that type of rough and tumble fight.

I honestly see Floyd kicking his ass badly. A lack of a really good jab puts him in trouble IMO. You gotta have a jab to get near Floyd, I can't see those digging punches working in the slighest because the range isn't there to land them.

 

I think Hopkins would of still beat Pavlik in the same fashion with a diffrent corner. BHOP is a genuis in the ring.

 

in the end Fighters are a product of their enviorment. and a corner is a bigg part of that enviorment. thing is it depends on how long they've been with that corner that determines their fighting style and adjustablilty as well as there Ring IQ. for instance. not picking on any one. but take Pavlik for example one of my favorite current fighters. he's a basic fighter who uses the basic fundamentasl in a great offensive way. You can tell this by his corner who's game plan is always based around this formual . although it can seem pretty basic and one dimensional it a very succesfull formula that is succesful 97% percent of the time for that team . becuase KP has been with this formula for so long it's difficult for him to adjust to a fighter who is not falling into his plan. most of the times trainers set up a game plan to play to their fighters strenght ,capitalize on the opponets weakness and to take away their opponets strengths. another example of a a product of enviroment would be Joe Clazaghe who hardley ever fell into a repetetive patteren or cycle. it made it very hard to trian for a fighter like him becuase the hardest thing you can take away from a fighter who's formless is that adavantage of adaptability and unset gameplan. his father used that method in training. Now the main thing that brings this back ti point is when a trainer goes up against a fighter who's boxing Iq allow him to think 3-5 steps ahead off his opponets on the fly and has a natural adaptability that is a strength that can olny be nulified by having those exact same traits at an equal or higher level. and those are the traits that PBF has. unfortunatly for Nazim his fighter does no have those traits and this willbe the Xfactor in this fight where PBF easly outpoints Mosley