[quote]donnydarkoirl wrote:
Rooney seemed to be a good surrogate after D’amato. What could’ve been is scary.
I like the way Rooney drills Tyson in the video below.
He interrupts sequences to impart more information- almost pacing a round in doing so.
Tyson later had a habit of blowing himself out and it seemed Rooney was trying to impart to him how to fight in spots to avoid that.
Hey great find, I’ve seen clips of that before but never could find the full thing.
This thread inspired me to watch through a lot of early Tyson catalogue yesterday, its pretty crazy how dramatically he improves between fights and he was fighting like every month I think.
[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
Hey great find, I’ve seen clips of that before but never could find the full thing.
This thread inspired me to watch through a lot of early Tyson catalogue yesterday, its pretty crazy how dramatically he improves between fights and he was fighting like every month I think.
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Had been looking out for this quite a while myself.
It makes me wonder, if Tyson had been a counter puncher- rotated and allowed the opponent to miss, how easily he could have chopped down some big opposition with that power.
Yes it was; like Toney (pretty much my favourite) keeping bust helped them dramatically.
one of the guys i train with used to live across the water in windsor canada, and they would make trips over to kronk and spar with the guys there. he said going into that gym was like when rocky goes into the philly gym, just a bunch of mean lookin dudes wanting to eat your head off. being able to watch sparring like this is awesome. thanks for posting
[quote]Spooner21 wrote:
one of the guys i train with used to live across the water in windsor canada, and they would make trips over to kronk and spar with the guys there. he said going into that gym was like when rocky goes into the philly gym, just a bunch of mean lookin dudes wanting to eat your head off. being able to watch sparring like this is awesome. thanks for posting[/quote]
An ex-gym mate of mine completely concreted this.
He said in there any champions that came to be trained by Steward had to earn their place the hard way
lmao now imagine james toney coming into the kronk gym and telling the hardest motherfuckers around that they were bitches and he was gonna bust them up
and then doing it
Yeah, Toney was like adding petrol to a forest fire, but he was exceptional in the ring.
Not surprised that Bill Miller took a lot from Ezzard Charles