"He's not 100%, so I told him not to take it for no amount of money. Why go into a gun fight with a stick. He's not ready, so I told him just wait, chill out, it'll happen...James had surgery 6 weeks ago. I put him through hell, so I knew it wasn't go to work...I had the same surgery, you have to take your time...I am not scared of anyone beating James Kirkland," stated world-class trainer Ann Wolfe, who revealed that she advised her fighter, James Kirkland, not to face Saul "Canelo" Alvarez for any amount of money. Having undergone the same type of shoulder surgery herself, Wolfe was fully aware of the type of time Kirkland needed to recover to be ready for a fight of that magnitude. With the type of training she puts her fighters through, she thought it was ill-advised for Kirkland to take the fight. You don't want to miss what else she had to say. Check it out!
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