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Montell Griffins

Autobarn wrote:

stujones wrote:

Terry D wrote:
I'm still not convinced he was at his best against Woods. Clinton himself admits that he really came on after the Johnson fights due to a change in his physical conditioning and skills.

Woods himself was not really the fighter he would become at that point.

Hasn't Woods said that his conditional skills/nutritional knowedge has improved AFTER the first two Johnson fights and were the reason for his impressive work vs Hoya / Gonzalez etc.

Thats why I was a little dissapointed with him in the third Johnson fight.

he had a bad elbow in the 3rd Johnson fight, yet still fought a TOTALLY DIFFERENT fight by refusing to back up and engaging all the way. The only thing disappointing washis defense. I still say he'd give Calzaghe a very tough fight.

He was getting pretty much backed up in the 8th round (I think it was that round). I think the big difference between the three performance was Johnson didn't pace himself at all.

Lets not forget, the two previous Johnson fights were close - Johnson won them both, but I think a 7-5 case to Johnson could be made for all THREE fights.