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Yuriorkis Gamboa signed to Golden Boy...

 

[The axe murderer]

Cancer-Free Father Made Camp Less Stressful for Leo Santa Cruz


By Keith Idec

Leo Santa Cruz feels more confident following a stress-free training camp for his rematch against Carl Frampton than he did prior to their first fight.

Jose Santa Cruz, Leo’s father and life-long trainer, missed most of that first Frampton camp because he was recovering from cancer treatments. Jose Santa Cruz has been with his son throughout this training camp, though, which leaves Leo Santa Cruz certain he is more properly prepared for this difficult fight Saturday night in Las Vegas (Showtime).

“This time, having him there in the gym with me,” Santa Cruz said during a conference call last week, “he's telling me specifically like what punches I have to throw with Frampton, how to fight him and stuff like that. And he's always there, pressuring me. He pushes me and gives me that extra motivation and everything.”

With their father confined to a wheelchair for most of that first Frampton camp, Leo’s older brother, Antonio, filled in as his head trainer. Leo Santa Cruz says that impacted game-planning more than anything as they prepared at the Who’s Next Boxing Academy in La Puente, California.



“In the first camp, I didn’t have my dad with me,” Santa Cruz said. “And me and my brother were doing something that we thought was going to be a good game plan. But, you know, my dad is smart when it comes to that. My dad is the one who’s always watching boxing. He’s always watching different styles of different boxers and he knows how to fight different styles.

“Since my dad wasn’t here, we didn’t come with a big game plan. We had one thing, we had trained [for] one thing with my brother, and then when my dad got there, he wanted us to train a different way. So we got confused. We got a little bit frustrated. This time we’re going to go perfectly fine and we’re not going to have any problems.”

Jose Santa Cruz worked his son’s corner for the first Frampton fight, which Leo Santa Cruz lost on two of three scorecards July 30 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. One judge scored the action-packed fight even (114-114), but Northern Ireland’s Frampton (23-0, 14 KOs) won on the other two cards (117-111, 116-112) and took the WBA world featherweight championship from Santa Cruz by majority decision.

The 28-year-old Santa Cruz contends he is more than capable of employing the smarter game plan that his father has designed during this training camp. The former three-division champion typically applies pressure throughout fights and tries his best to deliver entertainment consistently to boxing fans.

Santa Cruz, of Rosemead, California, said he’ll be more tactical against Frampton the second time around.

“We’re going to go [in] with a great game plan, to go out there and try to beat Frampton,” Santa Cruz said. “You know, [my dad is] always there telling me how to beat him and now that I have him there, we’re going to have no problems when we get in the fight.”




Whatever occurs Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Santa Cruz is extremely thankful that his father has conquered Stage 3 multiple myeloma, a cancer that affects plasma cells in bone marrow. Jose Santa Cruz’s intense treatment included chemotherapy and spinal surgery.

“In the first camp,” Leo Santa Cruz said, “I was worrying more about him, about his health, how he was doing, if he was going to be able to go to the fight with me. Or if he was even going to wake up the day after, tomorrow, to be there with us because cancer is a very dangerous disease that you could be here with us today, or tomorrow you won’t be here with us.”

“Now, thank God, the cancer is in remission, in complete remission. But he’s doing a lot better and so my mind is clear. And the only thing on my mind is the fight, that I want to go out there and do a great fight for all the fans. And hopefully it will be another ‘Fight of the Year.’ ”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.

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still favor frampton but ​

 

[reservoirdogs]

Yuriorkis Gamboa signed to Golden Boy...

wondering what's the background motive
They probably sign him to feed him to some new GBP prospect adding a boost to him. It can backfire though Gamboa is old but aside of his out ring fukkery he is still one of my favs in the ring

 

[GREENandYELLOW]

If he made a statement he coulda been eligable for that canelo payday too
What is this guy doing to his career

No one knows. GB offered him a few opponents for that Canelo undercard (one was Rosado) and he bytched that Rosado was garbage and beneath him as an opponent. Then he went on to struggle vs. a worse opponent. Now we don't don't what is next when he could have been in the drivers seat to get Canelo in May.

 

[The axe murderer]

No one knows. GB offered him a few opponents for that Canelo undercard (one was Rosado) and he bytched that Rosado was garbage and beneath him as an opponent. Then he went on to struggle vs. a worse opponent. Now we don't don't what is next when he could have been in the drivers seat to get Canelo in May.

He needs to get his form back. He talented as hell but if he fought Khurtsidze in the shape he was in for the last one he's gonna be in danger

 

[Newzz]

Winner is mandatory for winner of Thurman/Garcia.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

It blows my mind Brook and Eddie Hearn are acting like they're both big shots you've fought two legit fights, you can't be straight up ducking someone.

Then talking shyt abt Khan which no matter how many bytch moves etc. look at the dudes Kahn has fought w no problem, and wanted the run back with. We fukked up letting England grab these titles breh.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

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we talking margarito or less padding on the glove? I don't see it

Dog you ain't seen the pics? Triple G new fight gloves looking like 25yr old Kronk sparring gloves after 3 rounds.

 

[The axe murderer]

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Dog you ain't seen the pics? Triple G new fight gloves looking like 25yr old Kronk sparring gloves after 3 rounds.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

look at the padding on the right glove. shyt looks like the fist area is completely detached from the rest of the padding. gabe said it felt like he was being hit with straight up wraps. and looking at that pic it seems like he has a case. shyt makes no sense for a glove to take that form.

 

[reservoirdogs]

look at the padding on the right glove. shyt looks like the fist area is completely detached from the rest of the padding. gabe said it felt like he was being hit with straight up wraps. and looking at that pic it seems like he has a case. shyt makes no sense for a glove to take that form.

I've seen this pic before but is this legit or photoshopped? I mean what's the source

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

I've seen this pic before but is this legit or photoshopped? I mean what's the source

it's no photoshop. it's just a regular media pic


Lem's latest: Rosado calls Golovkin's gloves 'suspect' - The Ring

 

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Dog you ain't seen the pics? Triple G new fight gloves looking like 25yr old Kronk sparring gloves after 3 rounds.

They took those gloves out of Tommy Hearns old gym locker

 

[The axe murderer]

Big Soulja Boy Charged with Felony Gun Possession

Well we now know whats gon happen to the christ brown fight

 

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@reservoirdogs @cmvegeta

The only issue to EVER pull Yuzo out of character was the GGG gloves issue

i believe that athletic commissions only check for glove weight. theres different things fighters can do to gloves. in the 4 oz era fighters used to fight with gloves that had horse hairs for padding and before the fight they would work the horse hair away from the knuckle area so there was zero padding when the fight started. in some tyson fights you can see him pressing his gloves together to work the foam padding away from the center of the knuckle area as much as he could before the fight. some fighters pull the padding backward and skin it down to the wrist with extra tape over the glove you still see this every now and then in a lot of fights when a fighter has his tape all the way up the hand. athletic commissions dont check or try to stop any of this. hopkins revealed an old trick that old time fighters would dip their wrapped hands into ice water to harden the wraps and turn it into a hard cast. theres lots of things like this that fighters do that go by athletic commissions how many fights did margarito fight before he was caught finally. is margarito the only fighter in the sport who cheats or is margarito the only fighter in the sport who happened to get caught? which one sounds more likely to you? remember the athletic commission people are not boxing people theyre a government department.

ggg is the man with the highest ko rate in boxing and the man with the smallest gloves in all of boxing. where theres smoke theres fire look at his fights his gloves are almost the same size as his real hand. it could be many things his team is doing to gloves trying to flatten them out or hitting walls to work the padding before fights that would still pass a athletic commission inspection but every fight he has look at his gloves for yourself and ask yourself if they pass your eye test.

im seeing this pattern in ggg fights too. its only so long that a fighter can keep getting bailed out by his power even george foreman was outboxed by jimmy young. he never hurt rosado and rosado was tagging him with good shots sometimes i wonder if ggg had on some winning brand gloves would he have even beat rosado at all.

i dont understand how anybody can stan ggg. he blatantly redistributes the padding on his gloves for his fights and nobody cares.

between this and that fadeaway right hand its now two funny looking knockouts from 3g back to back

searched around and im not the only one thats starting to think hes cheating

http://checkhookboxing.com/showthread.php?48133-Gennady-Golovkin-s-Suspicious-Gloves-A-Cheater

http://boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=513691

a lot of people are starting to get on board with this now. that last link is a big thread about his gloves. somebody said something interesting about the way golovkin punches said it was all arm and thats something i have also noticed. golovkin throws arm punches like that fadeaway right hand he knocked out geale with... wasnt any kind of weight in that punch... and that curved left hook he landed on top of rubio's forehead... no weight in it at all.... just arm

now i was wondering if anybody can tell me whether they think arm punches should be doing this to fighters

foreman threw arm punches but not like this. foreman loaded up and swung for the fences. you could see the power. you could understand it. golovkin... you cant. he knocked out geale with this

saying some people just have freakish power is a non answer and its a cop out. i want to understand boxing. i dont want to believe in magic and thinks things just happen just because of mystical forces. i want boxing to make sense and not have to fall for hype.

how many ways do you want to say that you dont want to have an answer. you could look at tommy hearns throw that right hand and understand why he was getting those knockouts with all that length and leverage same way you could understand why randy johnson used to smoke hitters standing up high on that mound with all that height. you could look at tyson and see that power in those legs and how much weight he would load up over that left leg then push off up from the ground to throw the left hook. you could see how ricardo lopez sets up those counters and perfectly places them on fighters at just he right time on just the right spot. i want to understand boxing. i want to know why golovkin can knockout somebody out with a arm punch to the top of their forehead.

nah never. its gym gloves out there that belong to the gyms that been around for probably 100 years that wouldnt ever break up or scrunch up like golovkins gloves do

i used to think that picture of golovkins right hand was just the grant logo but i zoomed in on it after it got brought to attention and its not a logo on the glove its his gloves getting scrunched up the way a car scrunches up on a front impact of a car crash

somebody analyzed it and mentioned that the only way for a glove to contort up like that is if theres different compartments of padding in the glove instead of padding just being all the way through it. in other words theres has to almost be a seperate pad in the front for it to react like that

somebody @ that one ggg stan in here he got to explain all this shyt to us

Yuzo calling random GGG stans out and not even by name at this point



He never calls anyone out..... #SSShookBoys had him pissed and even using smileys, being sarcastic, & cussing. Mad Yuzo was on they neck over this

thats not a haymaker. it doesnt matter how much capslock and boldfont you want to post to make that punch into the haymaker narrative you need it to be to stan gloveking

you brought up technique so lets talk about technique. look at his legs. look at his followthrough.

he is falling over and no weight goes over onto the front leg at the end of the punch. thats means its an arm punch. when that arm punch connects it doesnt go through geale. you know that it doesnt go through geale because the punch stops as soon as it connects instead of driving through after it connects. throws it as a hook but doesnt turn it over which is why it looks like a right jab at the end of the punch instead of the right hook that it started out as. these are facts not a narrative.

i posted that view because you can really see what golovkins legs are doing. you can see his legs just arent under him and that he was falling over while hes punching. you said he turned his hips. we can see that was a lie. i see these kinds of things and i try to add it all up. the only way to justify this is to say golovkin has freakish power. i agree. the difference is when you look at the controversy surrounding golovkin who now has racked up two funny looking knockouts back to back, fighters themselves bringing his gloves into question, fighters constantly getting cut early in consecutive fights, a growing amount of people starting to question golovkin, gloves doing things in pictures gloves arent supposed to do, its creating a growing case about the nature of that power. you cant ignore that and not take that into consideration when you see a punch like the one he hit geale with.

this is what turning your hips looks like.

i dont got to jump through too many hoops and do a lot of mental gymnastics to understand where the power of a punch like that is coming from. that doesnt look anything like what golovkin was doing. i got to create a whole entire narrative to explain what golovkin was doing in a way that might start to make sense. which is what you have done.

maybe so but its a growing list of things about golovkin that need to be called into question. we had to do it with margarito retroactively and looking back it all made sense why he was doing things like ripping fighters ears off in fights. but if you dont follow things blindly you dont have to look back retroactively. and pacquiao never knocked guys out cold with a arm punch.

that right hand that was scored as a kd for golovkin before the ko in the geale fight slid across the back of geales head and he wasnt hurt at all. it was so damaging to geale he got up and started boxing the rest of the round exactly the same. the hbo commentary team did make it seem like it was amazing punch though kind of like what you are doing right now.

i thought rubio wanted out too but the way that left hook knocked him down it was a good looking knock down. only problem was it was such a weak looking punch. another item added to the list of things about golovkin that make you go

This was the last time @Yuzo dedicated more than 1 post to proving a point. I wonder does he still feel the same way while watching GGG today?



@Yuzo, you still stand behind your posts or do you think GGG's power is all "legit"?