Quote Originally Posted by DaxxKahn View Post
I have actually made that arguement with guys before...Like you said in the Sanders fight he was not out of it..he was not laid cold...IMO he panicked when he was hit...Did not know what to do...I think that they trained so long on offense that his team did not concentrate on defense...Vitaly did not have all that good defense either...Vitaly could just take a punch better.....Thats why I mentioned Stewart in my other post...Manny wioll concentrate on not just defense but how to keep controlled under fire...people don't realize how hard that is and if you are not used to it I dont care how hard you hit you will fall apart...

His fight against Brewster he punched himself out IMO he was winning until he got tired in the 5th.....

Everyone blast him for the 2 KO losses but no one ever credites him for getting up off the mat to beat Peter who IMO hits harder then both Sanders and Brewster...Again I give a lot of that credit to Manny...
You know why that is? His trainers in the amateurs put the centers and forwards from the Russian basketball team in to spar with Vitali and made Vitali work only on his defense. So current NBA player Stanislav Medvedenko got to punch Vitali in the face without fear of a retaliatory attack.

Also Vitali's defensive style was more awkward...more along the lines of a Jack Johnson than any current fighter...it worked well for him