As a trainer how would you prepare your man for pbf.....

[Chris Nagel]

I guess if you really wanted to throw him off you could talk dirty to him.

Yeah and give his a** a squeeze while you're at it. Give that ciatic nerve a good pinch.

Was that the thing that Buddy Mcgirt was saying Gatti was going to hit? If not, does anyone remember that, and what it was called? That was pretty freakin' hilarious.

Obviously McGirt was watching too much of "Million Dollar Baby."

Buddy McgGirt: "Forget everything that I taught you, just keep sticking him in the butt cheeks until he starts screaming your name!"

Arturo Gatti: "That's why I am thunder, he's going to feel it in the ass when I'm through with him..."

Buddy McGirt: "It'll be just like what that Maggie Fitzgerrald did to that hooker, right in the sciatic nerve."

Arturo Gatti: "Hey Buddy, didn't she break her neck in that movie?"

Buddy McGirt: "Don't worry Gatti, just protect yourself at all times and I keep the stool right in the corner just in case you fall."

During the fight Gatti's thinking "Protect Yourself at All Times", then Mayweather pushes him back with a forearm.

Arturo Gatti taking his eyes off Mayweather, "Did you see tha..."

Mayweather: "Biiiaaatch!"

Arturo Gatti's neck lands on the stool... True story. The Moral, Protect yourself at all times, and stick it to the man!

[Joerod]

I guess if you really wanted to throw him off you could talk dirty to him.

Yeah and give his a** a squeeze while you're at it. Give that ciatic nerve a good pinch.

Was that the thing that Buddy Mcgirt was saying Gatti was going to hit? If not, does anyone remember that, and what it was called? That was pretty freakin' hilarious.

Obviously McGirt was watching too much of "Million Dollar Baby."

Buddy McgGirt: "Forget everything that I taught you, just keep sticking him in the butt cheeks until he starts screaming your name!"

Arturo Gatti: "That's why I am thunder, he's going to feel it in the a** when I'm through with him..."

Buddy McGirt: "It'll be just like what that Maggie Fitzgerrald did to that hooker, right in the sciatic nerve."

Arturo Gatti: "Hey Buddy, didn't she break her neck in that movie?"

Buddy McGirt: "Don't worry Gatti, just protect yourself at all times and I keep the stool right in the corner just in case you fall."

During the fight Gatti's thinking "Protect Yourself at All Times", then Mayweather pushes him back with a forearm.

Arturo Gatti taking his eyes off Mayweather, "Did you see tha..."

Mayweather: "Biiiaaatch!"

Arturo Gatti's neck lands on the stool... True story. The Moral, Protect yourself at all times, and stick it to the man!

[El Kabong]

How about just throwing away the rule book just short of DQ. Step on his toes, hit him with the sides of your glove and with the palm. Hit him in the kidney's. Hit him with the side of the glove on the bicep. Trash talk on the inside, call him a pussy, w/e.

Don't give him a wide target, and jump on him at every minute of every round.

Funny you post that....I was just about to advise the same thing

Though it's EXTREMELY illegal....hey some fighters you have to bend the rules a little bit to beat

[Chris Nagel]

If you're a southpaw named Zab Judah it's understandable that you may accidentaly step on someone's feet.

Might accidentally make you sterile with some of those 'accidental' shots.

Though it's EXTREMELY illegal....hey some fighters you have to bend the rules a little bit to beat

Just have to keep it on the DL when you're with Mr. Fat-but-Firm.

[El Kabong]

I just think a Roberto Duran attitude paired with Tommy Hearns power would un-do pretty much anyone mentally and physically.

But I think for Floyd, you have to beat him mentally before you beat him physically

[Chris Nagel]

I think a Julio Cezar Chavez on his best day could have been that combination that you're talking about. Power, body puncher, and mentally tough. Unremitting, undomitable... Yep I can see Floyd trembling to that.

[El Kabong]

Chavez was very chill in the ring, he never lost control, never got worried about losing....he was like a 140 pound Rocky Marciano.

I am not sure Chavez had the intensity I would want for someone ot fight PBF ....BUT he was definantly good enough to give Floyd a very difficult fight.


Salvador Sanchez would have given Floyd all he could handle at 126 too...he was a tough SOB

[Chris Nagel]

Definately Sanchez, he was a master at feinting. I can't say the the same about FLoyd's opponents. I think an Arguello had a lot of the stuff, may have given a run for the money, he was like a miniature Joe Louis.

[El Kabong]

Hagler
Hopkins
Wright
Hearns
Leonard
PRIME De la Hoya
PRIME Shane Mosely
Duran
Chavez
Sanchez
Willie Pep
Manny Pacquiao

All those guys would give Floyd a hard time

[Chris Nagel]

I think if you added Ray Robinson, Charlie Burley, Kid Chocolate, they'd tear right through him. Back then Floyd's style wasn't unique.

[El Kabong]

...totally forgot about those guys


Lamatta
Basillio

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Hagler
Hopkins
Wright
Hearns
Leonard
PRIME De la Hoya
PRIME Shane Mosely
Duran
Chavez
Sanchez
Willie Pep
Manny Pacquiao

All those guys would give Floyd a hard time

And look most of those guys are hardcore preasure guys....  Crazy, huh?!

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

...totally forgot about those guys


Lamatta
Basillio

Very nice addition... CC

[bgordon]

IMO a prime Tszyu could have given Floyd problems. They say timing beats speed, and k.t. was the master of timing. Plus he could really pull the trigger on that right hand, and he had a history of success against slick boxers.

[Chris Nagel]

...totally forgot about those guys


Lamatta
Basillio

How could you forget Robinson, if you got LaMotta and Basillio you might as well add Zale and Zivic. Haha nice ring to it.