Gary Antuanne Russell talks to Struggle Hype about his cut up determination loss to Alberto Puello and criticism he obtained he obtained afterwards. Russell says he believes he made the error of permitting the combat to be too aggressive regardless of feeling like he received, which he believes left the official judges sufficient wiggle room to favor Puello.
“We had a submit press convention and a few vital individuals to me exterior of my brothers, they was simply saying — I respect their opinion — however they was simply speaking about how I relate to Shawn Porter, I give a Shawn Porter combat fashion,” Russell stated. “I stated ‘nah, that’s disrespectful.’ No disrespect to Shawn Porter however truthfully he’s one dimensional. All people can depend on him to placed on his soccer helmet and his shoulder pads and simply are available in recklessly and being aggressive.
“Now it’s a distinction once you’re aggressive and also you’re strategic with the way you method your opponent, the way you apply your stress. I can do it in a number of sides…from one to spherical 5 I used to be making use of stress how I usually apply stress to my opponents, successfully, strategically. However after spherical 5 I began deviating from the sport plan, which was a fault on me.
“Me, personally, I felt like I did sufficient to win however I made it too aggressive. I take a look at that as any individual who can get themselves some brownie factors in the event that they was to outlive with a Mike Tyson. I’ve a 100% knockout ratio. At this level you didn’t do sufficient to beat me for actual, for actual, however since you survived motherfucker, kudos to you, since you survived. They’ll sort of offer you like some brownie factors.
“I didn’t really feel like he was outclassing me or nothing like that, didn’t harm me or nothing like that. I felt I made it too aggressive to the purpose the place the judges can like lean a goddamn board to the facet and say ‘yeah, aight, we can provide it to him, he survived.’
“If I see him once more I’m going to knock him the fuck out. That’s the entire recreation plan.”
