Thread: Sparring partners for Floyd and Manny.

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

You don't think more than 1/3rd of his sparring partners should be southpaws?

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Crawford or Dulorme would be good for Pacquiao.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

You don't think more than 1/3rd of his sparring partners should be southpaws?

True. But now that you say it, it makes much more sense. I was thinking about movement and punch output solely.

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Replace Khan with Marvin Sonsona.

... and if we want, change Mikey Garcia with Vasyl Lomachenko. But I think keeping Mikey would be an added plus, and I think Gary Russell would bring the speed that Manny brings over Lomachenko.

I'd pencil in Malinaggi, Errol Spence Jr., casamayor see what trout or lara were doing (if i had favors to cash in) if i was coaching manny. See if JMM wanted to observe. You have to spot those gift wrapped opportunities for counters and close or at least narrow the window.

For floyd - Hard to think of a lot of small fast blitzing hummingbird like southpaws. See if Zabs busy. For pressure, I'd see what Porter, or Brandon Adams were doing. I'm sure he can find some some swarming southpaws in Oxnard, maybe even Japan.

None of the fighters listed in this thread would accept a sparing partner offer. They all want a shot.

Originally Posted by fan johnny

None of the fighters listed in this thread would accept a sparing partner offer. They all want a shot.

Agreed all the fighters mentioned are too expensive to be used as sparring partners.

I just thought it was a fantasy sparring match up? lolol....

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Replace Khan with Marvin Sonsona.

I first thought Kahn for Floyd too, just for the fresher speed and movement. I recon he knows how to handle south ok no need to practice for just that.

Besides a top pro would be able to deal up what you want just in sparring.

Originally Posted by Andre

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Replace Khan with Marvin Sonsona.

I first thought Kahn for Floyd too, just for the fresher speed and movement. I recon he knows how to handle south ok no need to practice for just that.

Besides a top pro would be able to deal up what you want just in sparring.

Floyd knows how to deal with southpaws. He's fought at least six of them: Judah, Guerrero, Ortiz, Corley, Mitchell, and Reggie Sanders. Yes, granted, none of them were as good as Manny, but the point is he has experience against southpaws.

People forget that Floyd fought a southpaw as early as his second professional fight.

Pac is going to be a sparring partner for Floyd on May 2nd lol

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Originally Posted by Andre

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by VG_Addict

Who would make good sparring partners for Floyd and Manny, to prepare for their fight?

For Floyd- Gary Russell, Mikey Garcia and Amir Khan.

For Manny- Timothy Bradley, Andre Berto and Adrien Broner.

Replace Khan with Marvin Sonsona.

I first thought Kahn for Floyd too, just for the fresher speed and movement. I recon he knows how to handle south ok no need to practice for just that.

Besides a top pro would be able to deal up what you want just in sparring.

Floyd knows how to deal with southpaws. He's fought at least six of them: Judah, Guerrero, Ortiz, Corley, Mitchell, and Reggie Sanders. Yes, granted, none of them were as good as Manny, but the point is he has experience against southpaws.

People forget that Floyd fought a southpaw as early as his second professional fight.

One of the reasons I think Manny will give Floyd problems is the success Judah and Corley had in their fights vs Floyd. I also feel like Manny will be really up for this fight and fight up to Floyd's level. Not saying Manny wins, just that he will fight his best fight vs Floyd.