Quote Originally Posted by Chris N.
Talking about James Toney, he was always big on sparring, more so than conditioning. You see his moves like the rear-shift, the shoulder roll and rising jabs come naturally because what he practices in sparring transitions into fights. This can applies to anyone, not that you should neglect your conditioning but your craft comes first.
His lack of conditioning has been his downfall.. Both he and in another example roberto duran gave up alot of conditioning work in the gym...
Duran was slightly better because he was a smaller guy anyway and he was still making middleweight over twenty years past his best..
They both do or did a great deal of sparring.. Roberto used to do nothing but sparring whilst training for a fight.. Mainly due to the fact that he was happyer to make the weight that way.. Because fighting is what he loved.. He just wanted to fight and would sparr instead of working at other things to prepare for fights..