Worst Training Camps

Douglas before Tyson.

The guy had a breakdown and was in tears much of the time.

 

margo before pacman. the guy was severely overtrained, his energy, power and pressure just werent evident. kinda like hatton prior to pacman. and mosley prior to floyd.

overtraining at this stage in a career is ridiculous, but it happens.

 

Tyson against Douglas and Naz against Barrera (the haircut scence in the doc is funny as hell).

 

Ali's training camp for the Thrilla in Manilla was pretty bad.

Didn't change the result, but, according to wikipedia, ''it was believed by Ali and his trainers that Joe Frazier was washed up after his devastating loss to George Foreman, and the relative ease with which Ali had defeated Frazier in their rematch after that fight seemed to bear this out. The general consensus was that Ali was doing Frazier a favor, giving Joe one last big payday before sending him off into retirement, and as a result Ali did relatively little training, instead concentrating on the torrid affair he was having with Veronica Porche, and amusing the vast entourage that had come to be nicknamed "The Ali Circus". Later, when Ali's then wife Belinda Ali found out that not only was Ali carrying on this affair but was introducing Veronica as his wife, she stormed into the Philippines, causing yet another distraction.''

 

Thanks. :good

 

First one that came to mind was Hatton before Pac, and also Lewis before Rahman.

 

Rocky Balboa for Clubber Laing!
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Can't believe people haven't mentioned Cotto before Pac.

A damn nutritionist with only 1 pro fight as a head trainer after a turbulent separation with the long-time uncle trainer, all the while training to make a nuisance catchweight, in preparation for the biggest fight of his career against the best fighter in the world.

Maybe worst corner of the decade.

 

Why did Cotto not get a real trainer for such an important fight?

 

Oliver McCall before Lewis II. He had a coke addiction and didnt want to fight at all. Don King essentially forced him into the fight. He barely sparred and only minimally trained for the fight

 

According to 24/7, Pacquiao's camps before Cotto and Margarito were full of distractions, as was his camp before Barrera 2.

Of course, it most probably was only a ploy to market the fights as more competitive than it was in reality.

 

Lewis for first fight with Rahman. Barely trained through filming Oceans Eleven and then turned up 5000ft above sea level only 6 days before the fight

 

Yeah, it must of been extremely tough, but Douglas has said that the training went well.

 

W. Gomez training camp before Sal Sanchez. According to my dad, it was well known in PR that he was drinking, partying and going out with tons of women weeks and days before the fight.