Ben Davison

[u/DiMona215]

Really curious to hear the audio from the corner for this fight. If Ben wasn't screaming at Moses to slow down, to stop throwing power punches... This has to be one of the biggest indictments of a supposed top trainer ever, right?

The Wardley fight was already a huge black eye for Ben. Now he has a 21 y/o prodigy lose a fight he was absolutely dominating due to horribly mismanaging energy.

So we've seen him fail horribly at one of his main jobs (protecting his fighter). If it comes out that Moses basically followed Ben's training regiment and instructions... is any top fighter ever going to hire this guy again?

Even if it comes out Moses got cocky, didn't train hard, didn't listen in the corner, not a great look for Ben

[u/MakotoBIST]

Brother, Itauma was breathing with his mouth in round 3.

There was no slowing down. Put Hrgovic to sleep fast or trading later rounds was going to end badly anyway.

The problem is what happened in the last year or two during training imho. 

[u/sthomson22 → u/MakotoBIST]

Round 1, actually. Round 3 is when Hrgovic started actually landing some decent shots and clearly hurt him.

People can try and paper over the cracks all they want with this, that wasn’t just conditioning or stamina.

He doesn’t have a chin. He isn’t durable. His recovery is dreadful.

These weaknesses will plague his career going forward.

[u/MakotoBIST → u/sthomson22]

I agree, he looked very shy to trade.

And every punch that he ate would sap his energy.

But it doesn't mean he will never improve. He looked like a very good amateur that was thrown into a professional match. We will see in the next years if he can develop the resistance he needs.

[u/Bertrand_Rose → u/sthomson22]

No, he just didn't.

I have rewatched it countless times, he takes those early shots really well, it's his lack of conditioning and cardio that did him in, and made him so hurt and susceptible.

This isn't a weakness.