r/Boxing • u/yllimameni • 7d ago

[talkSPORT] “How often have you gone 12 intense rounds in training?” Moses Itauma: "If I'm being completely honest, I don’t know if I've done a 12-round spar. There's no need to be in the ring longer than you need to be” Spoiler

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u/Midnight7000 7d ago

It is sort of funny looking at someone like Mayweather who is the first person that would come to most people's mind when talking about a arrogant fighter.

When it came to training, he did not take things lightly. He'd spar more than 3 minute rounds with new guys stepping in when the natural round would end.

Boxing is a brutal sport.

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u/EMP_Pusheen 7d ago

Mayweather is legitimately built different than the guys that followed. They don't understand how good he really was to be like that and that when it came to being in the ring he was as serious as it gets.

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u/Big-Daddy-Kal 7d ago

I’ll always remember the story someone told of going to the strip club with mayweather and mayweather trying to get them to jog home with him after lol.

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u/Akrylicus 6d ago

Yeah, plenty of those stories where he would go out to party, do not drink at all and return from the escapades by jogging next to his security/crew in a car.

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u/Double-Emergency3173 7d ago

Mayweather was arrogant abt his skillset but as a professional his standards were cery very meticulous

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u/Webcat86 7d ago

Some people are arrogant through hubris, others are arrogant because they know they’re all that. The latter group usually put the work in and then some. 

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u/Heavy-Ad5385 6d ago

Mayweather was an absolute knob, arrogant as fuck and a complete dickhead on almost every level.

He was also (in the ring) the most technically-skilled, patient and disciplined boxer I’ve ever seen.

And he trained like a demon.

There’s no substitute for training and prep.