So I said, “I believe you need to spar a lot.”, because before that, the exercise routine they had involved a lot of running, they would throw a ball up against the wall the turn around, catch it, and throw it again-it was a lot of conditioning things, and not so much sparring. They did a lot of exercises, like gymnastics stuff and everything-and that’s what they (the Klitschkos) said their program largely consisted of. Basically, with his program, they did not do a lot of boxing. Then a third thing we started doing, which he didn’t do so much in the beginning, was to spar a lot. The next thing was just to work on executing his punches with the shortest distance and the least amount of movement. You’re teaching me basic stuff.” We laughed, and I said “Well, that’s what I teach-basics, which is the most important thing starting with balance.” We spent a lot of time just moving back and forth, back and forth, and improved his balance in a certain way, because that’s really the foundation of everything. That’s what we had to do in the program that I was in. With my feet spread apart at a certain distance and moving back and forth and making sure I maintained the same distance between my feet. As a matter of fact, what was so strange is after we had been training for about a week, he was laughing one day, and I said, “Why are you laughing?” He said, “You know what you’re teaching me? When I started boxing when I was fourteen-you’re having me do exactly what I did then. I did not take that loss seriously.īut basically, what I did with Wladimir was teach him basics, which is what I did with Lennox (Lewis) and most of my fighters. And that is why I have never doubted him from that loss. At the end of the first round, he couldn’t even focus, so I will leave it at that. Well, he lost that night, but physically he wasn’t right.
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