WOW! Virgil Hunter really made an improvment with Fonfara!

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  1. Farmboxer

    Farmboxer VIP Member Full Member

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    Virgil, a legend within his own mind, really made an improvement in Fonfara's defense as he promised......................can he improve SOB as well? With that kind of defense you can't get hit...................(thought he stopped the fight a little too soon) If appears as if Fonfara really had an uphill battle.....................such an improvement, so much better than before..................

    By the way, if you stop the fight your fighter can't get hit at all, for sure!
     
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  2. Manfred

    Manfred Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He needs to sue Virgil for misrepresenting a trainer.
     
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  3. slender4

    slender4 Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Then he should have kidnapped and torchered Sam Colonna for a few days.
     
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  4. Bogotazo

    Bogotazo Amateur Full Member

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    Virgil gets a bad rep for trying to improve fighters on the way down.
     
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  5. blac_ike

    blac_ike Member Full Member

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    Virgil has had the toughest assignments in boxing training history

    Picture trying to improve almost every fighter in the last 5 yrs coming off of soul taking KO's & beatings

    And we not just talking about average guys we talking about berto, angulo, fanfora, quillin & khan some of the most notable but extremely flawed fighters we've ever seen
     
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  6. Odins beard

    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    LOL If he's that good of a trainer why are non of the prospects heading to him?

    Ward has made Hunter without Ward Hunter wouldn't even be talked about.
     
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  7. TinFoilHat

    TinFoilHat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hunter doesn't seem like that good of a trainer.
     
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  8. Reinhardt

    Reinhardt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Did Fonfara get hit with every punch or did it just seem like it?
     
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  9. Jacques81

    Jacques81 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think he coild be helpful for Wilder for the Nichols rematch
     
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  10. GGGunbeatable

    GGGunbeatable Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hunter is not a trainer. Ward is just like Wlad, he doesn't need a trainer anymore. Maybe he just feels like Hunter is a close person, who took care of him, so he gives him motivation. But he doesn't teach anything, he never fought in the ring before.
     
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  11. cippi

    cippi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    hunter is a good trainer . just for ward though.
     
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  12. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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  13. stormy

    stormy Live and Learn Full Member

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    anyone thinking that a trainers handywork will be seen straight away need there head read. Most improvements take years to come about. Aint no way that bad habits are just going to leave the fighter overnight.

    Virgil is a bit creepy sometimes.....but some people seem to respond to this kind of talk and Ward is one that seems to thrive on Virgils rhetoric for whatever reason. The mind is a powerful thing and Virgil seems ultra focused on that element as much if not more than on telling his fighter what to throw.
     
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  14. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Virgil is overrated as a trainer, he got a supernova
    in Ward so everyone bought the elite trainer hype.
    Listen close, he doesn't even give good corner advice.
    It's really crazy.
     
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  15. N17

    N17 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Take away Ward who is so naturally talented I think I could have trained him and have a look at the list of fighters Hunter has worked with and what they achieved under him.

    I completely forgot about Brandon Gonzales, battered by DeGale and hasn't been seen since.

    Mike Dallas Jr
    Angulo
    Karin Mayfield
    Chase Witherspoon
    Argenis Mendez
    Berto
    Mares
    Khan
    Andrade

    I personally think Hunter is bang average.
     
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