Quote from: Slow death on March 16, 2023, 06:57:17 PM

Quote from: TopTort777 on March 16, 2023, 11:53:05 AM

There is a nice video that has gone viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_wrz_fsF1c. I think that has not been posted here yet. Leon Edwards coach is cheering him between rounds. I know that this is a task of every coach, but that last part of this video is killing me. The look on Leon face, that "I am tired", "I dont know what to do". And compare it how calm Usman and his coach were. A fighter must wish to be a champ, not like your coach is talking you to continue...

really this is a video that people watch and think: this coach did much more than train, he practically became a psychologist and gave advice that a psychologist would give, he motivated his athlete to be more confident in the fight and think like a winner, it was visible that Leon Edwards was already tired and without any motivation to continue fighting, if the coach had not insisted that he had to continue thinking like a winner then Leon Edwards would have lost in that fight, which makes everything even more exciting in this video and that while on one side we have Leon Edwards' coach motivating him to keep fighting with the desire to win this fight

on the other hand, we have the Usman x Edwards coach who didn't talk much, it was as if the Usman x Edwards side were very convinced that they would win this fight and that they didn't need to keep talking about motivation in the fight, that was a serious mistake from the coach and the entire Usman x Edwards team, they underestimated the opponent a lot and did not do their job well in the psychological part of their athlete, anyway Leon Edwards is now the champion

When I first saw this video I was surprised how crappy Edwards looked. In post fight conference and in later interview he was so proud that he has won, he has challenged others, said how good he was. But when I first saw that video I could not believe that the coach nearly begged Leon to continue. That is not the spirit of a champion. Leon must be more confident, otherwise it really looks that he has got that belt for accident.