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victor-romeo wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 19:47 George is awesome and wise...

Ilya Muromets wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 19:58 That part about not putting weight on your neck - damn how true that is! I used to do a lot of neck exercises including heavy neck straps and bridges and other resistance exercises, the theory being it would make me punch resistant - but I also used to have a lot of neck pain. Doctors x-rayed me and said, "Boy, your cervical spine is all f'd up and that's why you got neck pain live with it. Pay the turnkey $100 and she'll buzz you out . Next!" Freakin doctors it is best to stay far away from them if you can. I finally stopped doing neck exercises and guess what? My neck pain totally disappeared! By the way that all goes double for back exercises tell me about it.

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 20:01 Same here. Almost the entire story you posted. Ended up herniated two discs in my neck...OUCH! Been fine for years now.

Ilya Muromets wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 20:12 Oh man. Permanent damage? I hope not. Once I was doing neckstraps with heavy weights and I went way forward - and that's another very bad thing to do with necks or any other exercise but esp. necks - doing the "full range of motion" thing. Something snapped and it hurt so bad and I was flying a long distance the next day and my neck hurt so bad i couldn't even turn it. It's amazing it recovered from that.

oogiebe wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 20:17 Left thumb is numb to this day from nerve damage. Left elbow gets pain sometimes and of course, I have to admit, the neck can be some trouble, but rarely.

Ilya Muromets wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019, 20:25 Sorry to hear that. I got off easy with my neck, not so with my lower back.

Enlightened-One wrote: ↑06 Jun 2019, 08:06 I’m not sure about Foreman’s critique of AJ’s training methods, since I doubt the American has ever seen the Brit train in person. Snippets of videos from social media doesn’t count.

However, I do think he’s right about AJ needing to take time to rebuild and implement changes to cater for the things that went wrong last weekend, rather than activating the immediate rematch clause in knee-jerk fashion.

Foreman seems confident that AJ will almost certainly rebound and become a much better fighter due to gaining fear of being stopped or being scared of losing again, but I’m not so sure myself.

Even though Manny Pacquiao, Juan Manuel Marquez, Bernard Hopkins, Johnny Nelson, Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield all managed to recover from losses to become better fighters or continue gaining success, others, such as: Mike Tyson, Jeff Lacy, Naseem Hamed, Adrien Broner, John Mugabi, Ricky Hatton, Sergey Kovalev and Felix Trinidad etc. noticeably declined after losing their unbeaten records.

AJ’s main strength is his offence, with his defensive technique considered as being flawed, but what if the Brit becomes gun-shy due to fear of being on the receiving-end of the sort of counters that Andy Ruiz Jr. managed to land almost at will?

He’ll have all the tools at his disposal to punish his opponents with his heavy-handed blows, but they’ll become redundant if he’s reluctant to pull the trigger due to fear of being countered. We actually saw this happen last weekend.

AJ has already said that he fully intends to continue working with Rob McCracken and nor will he alter the make-up of his training team, so his pugilistic skills are unlikely to change significantly. It’ll simply be a case of more of the same, but with far more caution. And I fear that might not be enough to avenge the Ruiz Jr. loss.

Riddick Blowe wrote: ↑06 Jun 2019, 11:38 You’re talking like he’s David price