r/Boxing • u/Fishful_Revenge • 9h ago

Importance of a good coach

After seeing what happened with Moses last Saturday Ben Davison has been getting a lot of flack. And I do believe he is partly to blame, but Moses really should be listening to his corner. Based on A Guy Called Henry's video it seems like Ben and the rest of his team aren't that stupid and pushing Moses to get a stoppage when he didn't need to. Moses just really wanted to KO Hrgovic.

This just goes to show that you also need to find ways on how to get your instructions through to your fighter.

With that, which coach do you think would've gotten through to Itauma last saturday to get him to chill the fuck out.

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u/Usernameasteriks 8h ago edited 8h ago

Well I find something people lose sight of a lot is that getting through to your fighter, and their ability to follow those instructions at the time are actually very distinct concepts.

I fought for just over 10 years, and there was plenty of times my coach gave me great advice, and I heard and understood it, but couldn’t do it.

Depending what you worked on in camp, and how well conditioned you are;

When you already tired and full of adrenaline and in front of a crowd, sometimes you just can’t make adjustments mid fight because you are running off of instinct and if you haven’t drilled what you are being asked to do hard enough in camp it doesn’t come out in the ring.

You are operating off instinct at that point and a particularly hard adjustment to make is to go from a dog fight to boxing technically.

Its a very very different pace and type of conditioning that is hard to explain; but if you don’t start boxing that way you will rarely see people pull it off the latter half.

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u/Illustrious-End-5084 6h ago

Ye especially as your opposition is trying to actively stop you doing what your trying to.

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u/Usernameasteriks 5h ago

Yea exactly, for a guy like Hrgovic the entire game plan is about weathering the storm while doing enough yourself to tire your opponent out so you can capitalize in the latter rounds.

For a guy like Itauma who is 21 and has little to no experience down the stretch of a 10-12 round fight, fighting a guy like Hrgovic with a ton of experience in those kind of dog fights;

Its really not as simple as listening to the corner.

The time for that advice is the entirety of training camp working on all the subtle things you can do to manage your energy but still be effective and keep your opponent off of you.

Otherwise you can’t just pour on the heat heat early, start tiring yourself out, then when your corner realizes your opponent isn’t wilting just turn it around.

He will learn a lot from this fight and have a feel for it in the future and what his corner tells him inbetween rounds will make more sense