Helping me out with my reflexes through this camp.I've been sparring Says: 'I believe that the velocity that Amir fights with is really Amir Khan, for Angulo's match against Saul Alvarez. Abraham Lopez: (we're uncertain which Abraham Lopez to link to) For Canelo's match with Josesito Lopez: Santana mentioned that they both sparred Canelo in 2012.ġ. Source: Hustle Boss (August 2012 interview)Ģ. Francisco says: He basically says he's trying to learn from Alvarez and he's much more mature than most fighters his age. Francisco Santana: For Canelo's match with Josesito Lopez. Tim Witherspoon: Witherspoon says Ali actually gave him his nickname ''Terrible' due to how tough he was in sparring.ġ. Greg Page: Some sources have Page as being a known sparring partner of Muhammad Ali as early as the age of fifteen.Ħ. Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey, By Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Aliĥ. Willy Moran (likely spelled as Willie, on boxrec): Source: Larry Holmes: Against the Odds, AutobiographyĤ. Brooks claims to have been sparring Algieri for years, since 2005, when Algieri was still a kickboxer. Michael Brooks: For Algieri's match with Manny Pacquiao. He said Algieri is also a 'slick boxer'.ĥ. Judah remarked that he thought Algieri had 'decent power'and was a physically strong person and Manny should not underestimate his power. Zab Judah: This was for Algieri's match with Manny Pacquiao. He says Cruz said he picked up quite aĪnd having faced Manny Pacquiao, tabs Algieri to defeat him in their scheduled bout but also mentioned Algieri's lack of power.Ĥ. Rounds during Cruz's fight with David Grayton. Source: Commentator Ray Flores says they sparred 36-40 *Fight News claims Adamek had 7 total sparring partners for Przemyslaw Saleta. He’s fast.'and also refers to Adamek as his buddy.

Mariusz Wach: For Adamek's match with Przemyslaw Saleta and Mariusz's match with Alexander Povetkin: Wach says: “I spent 20 rounds with Adamek, going full speed with no mercy. (Adamek had already defeated Gunn years prior)Ĥ. Bobby Gunn: For Adamek's match with Nagy Aguilera. Derrick Rossy: For Adamek's match with Nagy Aguilera.ģ. Source: Stated on NBC Sports Broadcast leading intoĢ. The talk was that Glazkov had success with Adamek, whom he'd later defeat. Here are the names from all the records I've kept: The more traffic I get, the more likely I am to continue working on this site. If you like how it turns out, please share with anyone you think might be interested. Hopefully, this will be a big enough reference by the end of the year that we will have a very useful tool for those looking up this kind of thing. If you have corrections that aren't of typo natures (which are also welcome) please link me to a source.

The format might change if I find a better way to do it than the way I begin. Many of the less popular names will only be mentioned going one way, under their more popular sparring partner.įor everyone else, I'll either keep them on this page or divide them into multiple pages by alphabetical order, with possibly a separate page for each letter. Steve Forbes, Malik Scott) I may give a separate also. Please, bookmark it and I will be adding to it, little by little, with links to sources, the Boxrec pages of the fighters, some quotes about it that I found helpful/interesting/amusing, etc, If they are very big names, I'll likely eventually link this to a special sparring profile page for that fighter alone, or if they're well known for sparring but not necessarily a big name (e.g. It's meant as a general help to anyone, for any reason. I say 'connections' because sometimes the facts of sparring, as we all know, can cause different recollections. This page will be the starting point for a database listing as many sparring partner connections as I can find.

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