Freddie is good but I think someday people will realize that cornermen are not as significant as we think they are. Even when Hearns lost to Ray, everyone said that Angelo Dundee was the one who helped Ray Leonard realize he was behind and said your blowing it son. Fact is Tommy ran out of gas. He was overtrained and weighed 145 and it had less to do with Angelo than to do with Hearns being exhausted in round 14. When Tommy was hurt whether Angelo said it or not, Ray would have been all over Tommy like he was regardless. He wanted Hearrns knocked out more than Angelo did. Cornerman are great to have but whether Roach was there or Floyd Sr. I think the same result happens. I think maybe Emanual Steward would have been good for Oscar in a way more, just because he would tell Oscar to jab and Emanual is one guy who always developed jabs with his fighters almost more than most guys. He would have been saying "throw the jab"!!! Forget everything else and throw the jab. But then I think as much as people think the jab would have been the key, Floyd would have found a way to counter the jab.. Why else didn't Oscar throw the jab more? Floyd was doing something to make him not throw it. And I do not buy that excuse Oscar said after that it just was not a jab day? Maybe his arms were tired and he really didn't have the energy to throw it.


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