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According to Boxing Scene.
http://www.BS.com/?m=show&id=34941

Woh!

Hmm, didn't see that coming, I thought Bomber was happy at Arnie's.

It was only a matter of weeks ago he was raving about him as a trainer, wasn't it? Bit of a shock this...

Good to see him wanting to train back home and good to see them still being on good terms.

shocked at this, bellew will have thought long and hard about this bet its tearing him up leaving arnie as the camp seem so close, if hes training in liverpool he should go with the vaughan camp imo



all the best bomber

Can he ko him ???? wrote:Closer to home? where are the two based??

Manchester and Liverpool.

diggler wrote:shocked at this, bellew will have thought long and hard about this bet its tearing him up leaving arnie as the camp seem so close, if hes training in liverpool he should go with the vaughan camp imo



all the best bomber

I'm guessing he'll be back with the Smith's and Selkirk.

Manchester and Liverpool not exactly worlds apart are they? More to this than meets the eye

This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

How long was your commute, Bomber?

[quote="Bomber 1"]This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!![/quote]

Tony its only half hour away on the motor way, who will train you for your up comeing fight? and what will you do for sparring?

Bomber 1 wrote:This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

Can imagine it being a ball-ache making the journey day in, day out.

All the best fella.

Cotto16 wrote:

Bomber 1 wrote:This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

Tony its only half hour away on the motor way, who will train you for your up comeing fight? and what will you do for sparring?

depends where arnies gym is and where tony lives throw in traffic its more than half hour, fair play family comes 1st

45 min journey, 44 miles exactly.. Long drive some days.. Sparring is never an issue when money is involved..

Bomber 1 wrote:45 min journey, 44 miles exactly.. Long drive some days.. Sparring is never an issue when money is involved..

I travel that to and from work every day! haha. But can see it might be tiring and a ballache if you are training and being a professional boxer. Must admit it does seem strange considering all the positive spin you came out with backing Arnie as a trainer a few weeks back.

[quote="Bomber 1"]45 min journey, 44 miles exactly.. Long drive some days.. Sparring is never an issue when money is involved..[/quote]

After all these years why decide to leave arnie now?? when you are 4 weeks away from one of the biggest fights of your career

will gavin follow???

has he had his confidence dented & lost faith in farnell's expertise since the knockdown's??

45minutes?? most travel to work an hour each way & in london it can take that long to get 15miles.fighters travel to the wildcard from diffrent country's :!:

i dont buy it especially after all the rave report's

He said travelling reasons.. Could be a whole host reasons ie no licence.. No car...etc

Bomber 1 wrote:This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

Best of look mate

Good luck to Tony, but how often do trainers and fighters split after a loss or a couple below par performances.

I think a lot of his recent problems have been getting down to 175lb. Tony is a big unit

Strange...its not as if your travelling far
Frankie will be the next one.....

Cotto16 wrote:

Bomber 1 wrote:This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

Tony its only half hour away on the motor way, who will train you for your up comeing fight? and what will you do for sparring?

Can't do liverpool to manny in half hr unless your in a car driven by a loon who has no points on his licence and doesn't give a fornicate about speed cameras.

boxingfarmer30 wrote:

Cotto16 wrote:

Bomber 1 wrote:This is purely down to traveling reasons only, Arnie is a good coach and it was a hard decision but my family come first and that's it.. Like I said this is nothing to do with Arnie as a coach cos the guy is a top coach!!

Tony its only half hour away on the motor way, who will train you for your up comeing fight? and what will you do for sparring?

Can't do liverpool to manny in half hr unless your in a car driven by a loon who has no points on his licence and doesn't give a eff about speed cameras.

I know a couple of kids from the Thornton estate that fit the mould.

I've always had huge respect for the way Tony conducts himself on here, but I'm sorry to say that this is the first time I think he's not being completely honest.
To be frank that commute is nothing in the scheme of things as most of us know through experience (Most people have a longer commute than that and will do longer 'work' hours than Tony does as a pro) and historically any fighter aspiring to reach the top will make far bigger sacrifices than that for a benefit like getting access to the best trainer for them.
I can understand why Tony wants to have a 'neutral' angle like this for the split given he's clearly a nice guy and gets on with Arnie, but this reeks of 'advice' from you know who and his team on the basis of his last couple of performances.... different scenario, but for me this has shades of the Khan and Harrison split.