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Also on this topic. The only fighter I can recall being told they were down late in the fight was Crawford against Porter.
My sense is corners don’t want to say this in front of judges…?
It also supposes the boxer has the ability to change this, guess the reality here is very few can.
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You're probably right, but they must be able to get this across without the judges hearing?! There's a difference between a boxer losing and needing to change things up, and one who would be winning if they hadn't taken their foot off the gas and gone into cruise mode, and then started to lose the fight. I don't think fitness has ever been an issue for Fury, so I'm perplexed.
Markyboy
This from that article could easily apply to Saturday:
Rather than being urged to increase the intensity of his work in the last rounds Joshua said the instructions from his corner were “more like: ‘Double jab, right, left hook.’ It wasn’t like: ‘Take the fight to this fucker. Listen, you’re losing the fight.’ No. A trainer needs to tap into that psychological aspect. Sometimes you need to tell your fighter that: ‘Yeah, we’re losing a world championship fight.’