In the middle of the discussion about the fight of Lewis Crocker this Saturday with Padda Donovan, co -coach of Crocker, Billy Nelson, resembles the night Alex Arthur lost an invincible record against Michael Gomez in 2003. This is an critical fight, not because Nelson trained Arthur at that time – he was “T – but more because Arthur discovered in Gomez an opponent, whom he did not understand, the one who showed Arthur Sport, from which Arthur had until then he was protected .

“I remember this fight,” says Nelson. “Alex left us by that time, but he was intimidated by Michael Gomez, 100 percent. He was intimidated from the moment he [Gomez] I got on the ring and put his head before the fight. His expression was: “You don’t have to do it. I am a star here. He was not used to this kind of reaction. “

Arthur, despite the fact that he is a great favorite before the fight, was finally intimidated by Gomez from the very beginning, before he was thrown out of misery in the fifth round. It was then one of the biggest doubts this year, certainly in Great Britain, and for Artur the most complex lessons.

As for why it happened, the opinion was divided. Some said that Gomez was simply inspired and fought for the fight of his life, while others suggested Artur, a golden boy from Scotch boxing, he was self -drawn or simply not equipped with the intensity and approach of Gomez.

Either way, this is not a scarce boxing story, the perspective is too deep. Indeed, it is this story of Nelson who expects his man, Lewis Crocker, to fight Paddy Donovan in Belfast on Saturday. Of course, there may be differences in the story about it, but he thinks that the result will still be the same.

“If you look at him [Donovan’s] He was resumed, he did not fight absolutely no one but Lewis Ritson, whom I trained, and was a distinguished lightweight, not a welterweight, “says Nelson. “Paddy also drew a comparison with Jose Felix [a Crocker opponent]. But Jose Felix was a really delicate weight that Lewis Crocker dismantled in four rounds. Paddy Donovan detained Ritson in nine. It was a tedious fight to watch. I was live there, watching it. Lewis had a destructive performance against a lighter guy, while Paddy, who thinks he struck more than Lewis, took nine rounds to pull Ritson from there. “

The question about power was a feature of the first press conference that announced Saturday’s fight. Donovan of Limerick said he was a bigger blow, and Crocker from Belfast also offered his case. Finally, without any real proof, this afternoon there was an impasse; agreement for disagreeing; A contract to wait and see.

“He [Crocker] He definitely has an advantage in power, “says Nelson. “I was stunned that he was even arguing about it. Interest may say that Paddy Donovan, but look at who he fought to get this percentage of knockout. There is no comparison in my mind. Lewis hits more and fought better opponents.

“He [Crocker] He also has experience on his side. He had six more fights than Paddy as a professional, but not only he fought with a better opposition than Paddy. I couldn’t call you Paddy Donovan’s opponent other than Ritson. I know for sure that Lewis Crocker is a more rounded professional boxer than Paddy Donovan.

“I think Paddy awaits the rude awakening in this fight, to be forthright. Andy Lee [Donovan’s coach] He is my good friend, but call him [Donovan] At this stage, there is a “vast generational”.

“I am not sitting here saying that Paddy Donovan is not a good warrior. Paddy Donovan Is A good warrior. But I think Lewis Crocker is better fighter.”

If the element of surprise was what in 2003 reached Alex Artur, Nelson expects to be a witness to something similar between Crocker, 20-0 (11) and Donovan, 14-0 (11), on Saturday. Considering what he thinks is an experience between two welterweight weight, he thinks, he thinks, that Donovan will be introduced to fresh feelings and fresh problems than Crocker.

“I know exactly how Paddy Donovan will fight,” says Nelson. “The best way to find out how Paddy fights while watching Andy Lee. He teaches him what he knows. But as a trainer you must adapt to the forceful and weakness of the warrior. You couldn’t take Mike Tyson and turn him into a boxer, right? You must work on his strengths and work on what you classify as his weaknesses.

“Paddy was never in trenches, and he is 100 percent in the trenches in this fight. We’ll see what he has. I don’t think he has minerals.

“Is it too early for Paddy? I think it is like that. “

Guadalupe Medina, a straw boxer, can get closer to the title, but her trainer did not want to train her at first.

Medina, a boxer from Maywood in California with the Pro 9-0 Record (2 KO), started boxing after following his brother Amed Medina to the boxing gym. As trainer Edgar Jasso explained to her: whatever he did, she followed him. If he played basketball, she would do it too. “I started boxing at the age of eight. I just marked with my brother. Since he did it, I did everything he did. I marked myself, “21 -year -old medina said Boxingscene. “From the first day I just fell in love with him. I fell in love with the progress that I can do. “

The medina was eight years elderly when she first entered the boxing gym. She did not train with Jasso, but he was in the same gym, training other fighters. About five years later, Jasso cooperated with amateurs. Her brother started training with Jasso, but it was not a trouble -free or basic transition. At first Jasso did not want to train her.

“I started working with her when she was 13 or 14 years elderly,” Jasso said. “I really didn’t want to train her, because at that time we didn’t really train many women or we didn’t really do it at all.”

Medina also remembers it.

“He clearly threw me out and said he didn’t train girls. He thought the girls were too much responsibility, “Medina said.

“I would tell her that I was not sexist or anything, but I honestly did not know if women’s training was suitable for us,” Jasso said. “She never stopped coming and never stopped appearing in the gym”

The turning point came when the medina won the amateur tournament, a tournament about the 2019 Olympic Games in Compton, California. She would receive the best general boxer. Medina knew that after that she secured her place.

“When you tell someone that you won’t work with them and they still appear every day, he says something,” Jasso said.

Now the medina, which is signed to 360 promotions, is not lacking in interest in her career. Last Friday from Agustina Solange Vazquez at Chumash Casino, California, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, Santa Ynez, California.

Medina’s victory over Vazquez served in the competition as a step, because Medina moves very quickly in her teenage career. Vazquez, 4-3-2, Argentine boxer currently living in West Hills, California, had an amateur pedigree and despite the modest record, he served as the most arduous opponent of the medina on paper.

“I felt great. This was my first eight round – Medina said. “There was an augment from my last fight, which of course I love to see. I want to grow in every fight. I still want to observe improvements. Many things we were working on in the camp could demonstrate during the fight. “

With the victory over 22-year-old Vazquez, the depth of her division is now becoming a conversation. Medina takes in us number 1 according to Boxrec, as well as the same record goalkeeper as a ten warrior in the world. Medina is 21 years elderly, enters the title picture earlier than most could expect.

“To be truthful, I think we’re not very far away,” Medina said.

In fact, the medina has already been offered a fight for the title, but it would mean that the team is traveling to Germany. Jasso thought that the journey and atmosphere could be her career at that moment, although Jasso was clear that he had no doubt about her skills and skills of such a fight.

“After each fight they always ask me, what did I think about her performance?” Jasso said. “I always say it was good, but there is always room for improvement. I always look for more from her every time and this will lead her to the place where I want her to go. “

Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing”, a guide for teenage fighters, a boxing writer and a boxing member of the American Writers’ Association. Find it on X on @LukoBoxing.