Pedroza was PAST his Best Anyways Though... Gameplan's a Gameplan, but it Certainly Helps Administering It Against a DIMINISHED Version of a Fighter... REED
It was a combination of Pedroza being well faded and McGuigan fighting like a man possessed. McGuigan would not have beaten the Pedroza of 4-5 years earlier, but he was still very good on the night.
This is only half the story. Teddy had been down the gym sparring Hector Camacho and when he was working Hector over, Edwin Viruet whispered in his ear that Panama Al Lewis was hanging around outside mixing some bottles. Teddy draped Camacho over the ropes and ran outside to confront Lewis, on his own, and on the way outside he met Norman Mailer, who had tbis script called "The Slow and the Cut Prone", and Teddy stopped to read it and found its general premise to be flawed, as there are no slow or cut prone boxers, there are only boxers that Teddy hasn't worked with yet. But a seed had been planted in Teddys mind and he made a point to call the slowest most cut prone fighter Teddy had ever seen. And that's how Teddy came to nearly be in The Godfather Part 3 with Vito Antuofermo.
Lol. Atlas is a world-class bullshitter, but to be fair, McGuigan did fight with a lot of the D'Amato style against Pedroza. Matter of fact, the right hand Barry dropped Pedroza with was similar to the right hand Tyson dropped Holmes with.
I respect Atlas but I can't stand to listen to him because he's one of those guys who takes 8 minutes to say what could be said in 20 seconds.
That's generous. Not only that, like a lot of people with MENNAL health issues, he SHOUTS suddenly with no apparent reason. He just looks like a dangerous downer.
Did Atlas tell him that if he were the shorter guy, he should try to force his way inside, but if he was taller, he should try to keep Pedroza at distance?
What? You don't spend 20 years A LIFETIME to just share that sort of patented knowledge with strangers, you crazy? ?
Teddy, can you pass the salt? "Ya know, salt is interesting. Its like a jab to set up peppah, the right hand. And when you put em in combination..salt.. peppah... really quickly... ONE TWO!!! Guys are not menally equipped to handle that. And just like throwing too many jabs isn't always a good thing, havin too much salt is also... CAN YOU JUST PASS THE FUCKING SALT!?!?
There are a whole lot of fights in which the fighters involved were trained for the fight by people other than the guy you see in the ring. One in particular, a huge heavyweight fight from years gone by, a guy put in the fight plan, then trained the fighter. The last two weeks, the "trainer" that would be in the corner showed up and was taught the fight plan. That happens all the time. Very few of the famous trainers put together the fight plan, teach it, then corner it. I should point out that the most obvious example of this involves Roberto Duran and Ray Arcel: Freddie Brown taught Duran, he molded him and made him. Ray Arcel worked the corner and got the credit.
