Atlas: Berto can’t take shots anymore

Andre Berto(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas thinks Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) can no longer take head shots any longer, and he also thinks his legs are shot. Atlas doesn’t believe that Berto is completely shot at a fighter, because he still has good punching power and decent hand speed, but he definitely thinks Berto’s ability to move and take shots has been compromised in the last four years of his career.

If you look at Berto’s fight against Victor Ortiz in 2011, it was around this time that Berto stopped being able to fight in the center of the ring for the full 12 rounds. Berto needed to rest frequently against the ropes in the Ortiz fight.

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Mayweather needs to fight Golovkin if he wants put a stamp on his career, says Atlas

Image: Mayweather needs to fight Golovkin if he wants put a stamp on his career, says AtlasBy Allan Fox: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas thinks Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) needs to really push himself at the end of his career if he wants to put a special stamp on his career before retiring from the sport.

Atlas thinks that Mayweather needs to move up to middleweight and take on IBO/WBA 160lb champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in order for Mayweather to show that he’s really the ‘The Best Ever’ [TBE] as he likes to say he is.

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Atlas: I want to see Mayweather fight Golovkin

golovkin5By Dan Ambrose: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to temporarily retire after his next fight in September. Atlas sees it as the same type of retirement that we previously saw from Mayweather in 2007, when he stepped away from the sport for two years after his win over Ricky Hatton and didn’t return to the ring until 2009. Atlas thinks that there’s no way that Mayweather will stay out of the game permanently after his fight on September 12th of this year.

When Mayweather does come back, he thinks he should face WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) if he’s still unbeaten. Believe it or not, Atlas thinks Mayweather will out-box Golovkin when he returns from his mini-retirement.

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Atlas: Let’s not mistake Canelo for Marvin Hagler

Image: Atlas: Let's not mistake Canelo for Marvin HaglerBy Dan Ambrose: Since his 3rd round stoppage win over an over-matched and badly rusty James Kirkland (32-2, 28 KOs) in their fight this month, former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) has been crowned as boxing’s next superstar fighter by many of his fans. But one person who isn’t ready to give the 24-year-old Mexican fighter the keys to the kingdom is ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas.

Atlas feels what the red-headed Canelo accomplished wasn’t that big of a deal because of how flawed a fighter that Kirkland was going into the fight. Atlas thinks that Kirkland was the prefect guy to make Canelo look good due to Kirkland’s poor defensive skills, and his fragile chin.

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Atlas: Monroe is going to need some offense to hold Golovkin off

Image: Atlas: Monroe is going to need some offense to hold Golovkin offBy Dan Ambrose: If #2 WBA contender Willie Monroe Jr. (19-1, 6 KOs) is to have a chance to win tonight’s fight against IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs), he’s going to need to find some offense somewhere.

ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas says he sees Monroe as a good fighter defensively with his Floyd Mayweather Jr-like fighting style, but he feels that Monroe is going to need to do a lot more on offense for him to hold off a puncher like Golovkin in their fight at the Forum in Inglewood, California.

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Atlas questions Pacquiao’s heart and determination in Mayweather fight

atlasBy Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum revealed that Pacquiao was suffering from a right shoulder problem after his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. That injury supposedly was tied in to why Pacquiao came up short against Mayweather in losing a 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

One person who has doubts on validity of Pacquiao’s injured shoulder playing a part in his defeat to Mayweather is ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas, who feels that Pacquiao didn’t show any sign of having a bad shoulder injury during the fight. Atlas says that even if Pacquiao did have a problem with his right shoulder, it shouldn’t have prevented him from walking forward and looking to throw his left hand all night long.

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Atlas: Why was Team Pacquiao saying this was going to be World War III?

1-06By Dan Ambrose: For weeks before the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight, we’d been hearing Pacquiao’s team saying that Pacquiao would bring the fight to Mayweather and turn it into a war. But when the fight actually good place last Saturday, Pacquiao fought on the outside for much of the fight and he looked decidedly like a fighter who didn’t want to get hit by Mayweather’s right hands.

ESPN commenter Teddy Atlas doesn’t understand why Pacquiao’s team talked so much about the fight being a war and then they failed to produce the goods on the night.

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Atlas: Pacquiao beats Mayweather by controversial decision

1-MAYPAC WEIGH IN-TRAPPFOTOS-3632By Dan Ambrose: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas believes that Manny Pacquiao has a chance of beating Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night, albeit by a controversial decision. For Pacquiao to beat Mayweather, he’s going to need to avoid doing what he always does by rushing straight in, says Atlas.

Atlas doesn’t think Pacquiao will be able to get away with his normal in and out style of fighting if he comes straight into the line of fire of Mayweather’s straight right hand.

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Atlas wants Golovkin to fight Quillin and Jacobs

1-01By Dan Ambrose: ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas went on a long rant last Friday night in talking about WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s recent 11th round stoppage win over an overmatched Martin Murray (29-2-1, 12 KOs) in their fight in Monte Carlo last week in their fight on February 21st.

The fight was supposed to have been a competitive one in the eyes of some boxing fans, but it turned out to be a one-sided affair with Golovkin chasing an unwilling Murray around the ring for 10 rounds before Golovkin finally caught up to Murray in the 11th and stopped him on his feet.

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Atlas picks Crawford to easily beat Gamboa tonight

gamboa#1By Dan Ambrose: In what could be a big jinx, ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas made his prediction of tonight’s clash between WBO lightweight champion Terence Crawford (23-0, 16 KO’s) and Yuriorkis Gamboa (23-0, 16 KO’s) by picking Crawford to easily beat the 32-year-old Gamboa in their fight on HBO at the CenturyLink Center, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

“I like Terence Crawford. I like him to dominate,” Atlas said. “He’s the bigger guy; the naturally bigger guy, a natural lightweight. He’s good sized. Gamboa has been for the most part a featherweight. Gamboa hasn’t looked good in his last several fights. To me, there’s been a drop off in the performance of Gamboa. He just doesn’t look like the same confident fighter. He looks like a guy with an identity crisis.

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