05-31-2017, 08:58 PM
I think we'd all like to see Fa look like AJ. But I think ultimately Fa is a big rangy guy and probably should be training to exploit that. I see Fa , at his best being an outside fighter who could use feigning and simply combos when attacking and also have good countering abilities. I'm not sure whether we want him training to be a ko artist like AJ because the stamina doesn't seem to be there if it doesn't come off, and an embarrassing loss could eventuate. AJ gets away with it due to freakish power and being a fine student who implements the plan and thinks in there. He also has freakish recuperative abilities. It's certainly disappointing on the Fa issue though. After watching some earlier KOs of his, especially the body KOs, I had envisioned Fa getting some KO reels going and establishing a name for himself as a big young monstrous puncher, not an abc boxer. I wonder if they sit down with him and just watch videos of heavyweights instead of pumping iron day in day out. Foreman, ali, mayweather even, klitschko, haye etc etc. And study what they do and try to understand what elite level is all about. Take a thing or two that klitschko did in his prime, like those fake head ducks that he turns into a leading left hook. Or the feign to the body and then a ripping right cross to the head that Haye does. Study AJs iconic uppercut of klitschko and how exactly that was applied. Then go in there and try them out. Try them out against these cab drivers until it's perfected. You can say all you like about getting rounds in and building a resume. But once it's time for the do or die, career defining fight; I'm not sure 5yrs of jabbing and the odd body dig is going to hold him in good steed. It's going to be that trick or two you learned rotely that will be the deciding factor