(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.