it's his own fault, he didn't look like he even wanted ot be their in the first fight, he was in a fight for what's been called the biggest prize in sports and he's fucking around. I still thought he lost.
some fighters just look bad when they are suppossed to look good and vice versa, i really think that was one of muhammad ali's problems in the 70's, he didn't have that many really good showings, even against lesser opponents but give him a foreman and he would pull it out. As far as holyfield not being technically sound, i think the opposite is true, he is one of the best taught fighters in the division and that's how he beat a lot of those guys. He spanked tyson because his technique was way better, even giving the impression that his hands were faster because he threw more correct punches. VS. Cyzz, he was hammering the guy and couldn't hurt him, then cyzz quit saying something was burning his eyes, Toney was just another in a long line of guys who evander wasn't up for, like i said, look at his fights before he won the title, then after, it's a huge dropoff, foreman, holmes, cooper, none impressive, then bowe, then with something to prove, he beats bowe, then lets down against moorer. Usually, he had some excuse, his shoulder, his heart, a flu, a virus but no fighter goes in 100 percent and most fighters have some excuse when they lose.
Yea and he was taught by George Benton after the olympics so there was no lack of knowledge in that camp.
Doesn't really seem to jibe with what we saw with our own eyes.
no it doesn't, not at all but we weren't there, maybe lou saw him be flakey. Fighters don't always train with consistency, or.., worse yet, maybe lou was being racist, i think someone said they caught lou saying black fighters were lazy. Which, for me, having known trainers of various stripes since i was 13, for a trainer to call anyone lazy is a stretch.
about what? black fighters being lazy or just evander? if lou did say that black fighters are lazy he was simply being racist, we don't know if he really said that, i think someone said they filmed it or reported it but I never saw hard evidence myself. but.., if he said it, that's just an old stereotype of the shiftless negro, and as I mentioned before, for a trainer to say that is a stretch, trainers don't do anything but expect other people to work hard while they do nothing and take all the credit. So, if lou was saying anyone is lazy, it's the pot calling the kettle black, so to speak. just about every trainer i had was a fuckup and that includes the ones who managed to make people think they were special.
maybe he was mad evander left him
could be, i know george benton and duva had some sort of falling out over who knows what and benton accurately said duva didn't know a thing about training. I never heard duva give any solid advice in the corner. He made it work busineswise but that doesn't mean he really understood the sport in a way to impart it to others.
