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JOHN DAVID JACKSON FIRES BACK AT VIRGIL HUNTER; QUESTIONS ANDRE WARD'S POWER AND INSIDE FIGHTING

By Percy Crawford | July 20, 2016
JOHN DAVID JACKSON FIRES BACK AT VIRGIL HUNTER; QUESTIONS ANDRE WARD'S POWER AND INSIDE FIGHTING

"Listen, here is the thing, I don't know if Virgil is getting mad or not, but Virgil can't choose the same words that I choose. I'm a two-division world champion and I defended the title for 4 1/2 years, so when I talk about certain things in boxing, it's because I've been there at the highest level. I understand what it's all about," stated world-class trainer John David Jackson, who responded to recent comments made by fellow world-class trainer Virgil Hunter regarding a fight between their two fighters, Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev. Check out what else he had to say!

JOHN DAVID JACKSON'S RESPONSE TO VIRGIL HUNTER:

Listen, I'm trying to get in Virgil's head too and apparently I am. The reason why I say things...this is not an easy fight, but I say things according to how I feel. Now, if Andre was a big puncher, here is a little insight for you; when he fought my guy, Allan Green, Green first of all was coming off of that operation he had and he's never been the same since. Allan Green, for that fight, didn't diet the right way. He did everything backwards. I tried to get him a nutritionist, but he didn't want that. I tried to get him a physical conditioning coach and he didn't want that. He did everything on his own the way he shouldn't do it and it cost him in that fight. When he fought Andre, he was weak, and as weak as he was, Andre should have stopped him and he didn't even do that. He went the distance and this guy was in no condition to even go 8 rounds. If Andre was truly a big puncher, he would have stopped Allan, trust me. And that let me know right there that he's not going to have the pop at 175 that everybody thinks he has and Virgil might hope that he has.

He can punch a little bit. Anybody that's been around boxing knows that if you hit me, you can get my attention and hurt me and earn my respect, but if you can't hurt Sergey and he knows his power is greater than yours, you got trouble! I'm not saying grab him, maul him, and do things that Andre is good at doing; you gotta keep this kid off of you. Sergey is a lot stronger than people think. I told Bernard that before the fight and he didn't believe me, but after the fight, he said, "John, this guy is so strong; that's why I couldn't hold him because I knew if I held him, it would weaken me." And that's the thing that Andre is going to find out. If he starts grabbing this guy, he's using all of his power to keep you tied up. That's going to hurt him. His inside game is not that good, so guess what; you got a guy with good short punches punching you on the inside.

There are a lot of things in this fight that are going to answer a lot of questions for both fighters. So when I say things, maybe Virgil don't appreciate it, but hey, not everybody is not going to appreciate what I say. But I just tell the truth and I see things. Andre is not the big puncher that Virgil thinks he's going to be. Here is the thing about boxing, I can teach you how to be a better puncher and how to have a better stance to have better pop on your shots, but if you're not a natural born puncher, it's not there for you and it's never going to be there. So he might be able to show Andre a few things to make his punches a little bit better, but he's not a natural born puncher, so it's not going to be there for him like he's hoping it will be.

BE SURE TO CHECK BACK SOON FOR MUCH MORE FROM WORLD-CLASS TRAINER JOHN DAVID JACKSON



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