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Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

Not much head movement, light on his feet, and not a great defense. Haven't seen all his fights but haven't noticed anything resembling a shell defense. Khan hit him at will. The 14-second video released of Conor-Paulie (not the "knockdown") showed Malignaggi getting the short end of the stick, but it was only 14 seconds. Having said that he got very roughed up during those 14 seconds. Of course, if you're showing clips instead of the whole session that says something too. But......... Paulie left camp over the leaked "knockdown" photo? Didn't seem like he was too motivated to get back in the ring to make a statement. And there's that.

The reason I asked about the shell defense is because I'm wondering if the Conor camp has a foot in two approaches.

One approach says spar with someone similar to your opponent.
The other approach says spar with someone based on who your fighter is and what you want to do in the ring.

In that clip Paulie looked like someone trying to mimic Floyd when he has no business trying to do so. The softshell defense and amazingly slow head movement made me question what the plan was.

If they are just getting any boxer and say spar the way Floyd fights and think that will prepare Conor for Floyd they are in for a rude awakening. I thought they were thinking don't worry about Floyd, do what you do and make Floyd adapt to you. I.e. Paulie was brought in just to give Conor some work in the ring.

Regardless though, the dumbest thing for Conor's camp is to release the full footage. Don't believe Floyd when he says he doesn't watch a guy's previous fights.

Anyway, I'm overanalyzing a 14 second clip so their marketing strategy is working lol