Who did HBO boxing announcer talk to after the Mayweather fight?
After 13 years as a pro, Mayweather is still unbeaten (39-0), and trainers continue to pore over his past fights for any sign of weakness. The latest is Nacho Beristain, the trainer for Floyd’s next opponenent, Juan Manuel Marquez. Beristain, as so many other trainers have said before, feels sure he has found the way to break down Mayweather’s defenses. But he didn’t get his strategy from watching tape of Mayweather. Instead, he looked 14 years into the past for the plan he’d used to defeat another elusive boxer who had a significant height and reach advantage over Marquez. “We are working on the same game plan for Mayweather that we used against Julian Wheeler, one of Juan Manuel’s first fights in the United States,” Beristain said through an interpreter. In 1995, Marquez took on Wheeler at the Great Western Forum, and scored a TKO in the tenth and final round. A former U.S. Olympian and U.S. National champion, Wheeler was listed as 5’8″ ½, but when he stepped into the ring, TV announ
There have been all kinds of theories on how to defeat Floyd Mayweather, but so far none have proven successful. September 1, 2009 – by Nat Gottlieb After 13 years as a pro, Mayweather is still unbeaten (39-0), and trainers continue to pore over his past fights for any sign of weakness. The latest is Nacho Beristain, the trainer for Floyd’s next opponenent, Juan Manuel Marquez. Beristain, as so many other trainers have said before, feels sure he has found the way to break down Mayweather’s defenses. But he didn’t get his strategy from watching tape of Mayweather. Instead, he looked 14 years into the past for the plan he’d used to defeat another elusive boxer who had a significant height and reach advantage over Marquez. “We are working on the same game plan for Mayweather that we used against Julian Wheeler, one of Juan Manuel’s first fights in the United States,” Beristain said through an interpreter. In 1995, Marquez took on Wheeler at the Great Western Forum, and scored a TKO in the
After live tweeting the Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez play-by-play, I got a lot of questions from readers for a boxing Twitter mailbag. But while plenty of questions were about who won the Mayweather-Marquez fight and how (answer: Mayweather by unanimous decision), we’ll start with questions about Shane Mosley and HBO boxing announcer Max Kellerman, who made headlines with their actions in the Mayweather post-fight interview. Sources: http://boxing.fanhouse.
