Quote Originally Posted by Andre
They obviously never trained for anything other than the way they thought the fight would go (their own way)!

What a blue to make ;over estimate your own fighter to the degree that you then underestimate the best there is in regards to how he will deal with your fighters one and only approach.

In hindsight I would have liked them to have Ricky breaking down distances with sparring partners.
Shifting back slightly so he could deal with Floyds arms at the range of arms only and then moving in on the reactions that occur at that distance first.
That would at least break it into segments so he may of been able to open up with some of the shorter punches as he finally moved in.
Instead they just expected to be let through that gap with no jab by a precision timer.

With what they had on the line in this massive fight I would have expected them to have had more boxes ticked than they did.

It reminded me of the way I felt when Barrera took Hamed apart that time and they just kept trying a single minded approach while getting fully schooled.
I think they over bet on Ricky's power taking it,but at some point in the fight you have to tell your fighter to change gears
I think Barrera is a tape hound like me,and I suspect what Mayweathers becoming,I think he found a way to exploit Hameds jab,which frankly allways was an achilles heel for him,nobody was fast enough to exploit it before
And again,just like with Hatton,once that fell down,there wasnt a plan B
One of the things I like about Hopkins,is theres a plan C,D,E,and F,I think its Ali syndrome, where its just worked so well for so long,you get lost if it isnt.
It never really happened to Ali except for the last two fights, but fighters have to remember, you arent Ali
Another example is Tyson,he could he either blow your doors down,or close the gap fast enough,and keep his head on yours,and feel what you where doing,but when he couldnt close the gap fast enough anymore,there was nothing else to fall back on,and nobody there anymore who he trusted enough to give him something else to use.