{"id":34201,"date":"2021-09-10T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=34201"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:01:21","slug":"jackson-belfort-has-suspect-chin-will-get-clipped-by-holyfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=34201","title":{"rendered":"Jackson: Belfort has suspect chin, will get clipped by Holyfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by Eric Espada\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Holyfield\u2019s trainer discusses what it took to get his fighter prepared to compete at age 58. <\/p>\n<p>During an interview with Fight Hype, trainer John David Jackson talks about his work with Evander Holyfield as he prepares him for his September 11 fight against Vitor Belfort. Jackson says that while Belfort may pack some power, he doesn\u2019t have the real boxing prowess to cause much concern for Holyfield. Check out some of what Jackson had to say below.<\/p>\n<h3>On training Evander Holyfield for his comeback<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMy thing was to get his muscle memory back and make him do the things he wanted to do, the best he could do, now. And it was an easy transition for us because he knows the game and I don\u2019t have to teach him anything new. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo fight at this stage of your life, which is not a thing that most people should do, but a gentleman like himself, it\u2019s what he does best and what he loves.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>On what we can expect to see from Holyfield in this fight<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll get a new Evander, whatever Evander brings to the ring is what we\u2019re gonna get. As far as his opponent\u2019s concerned, he can punch a little bit \u2014 ain\u2019t no real boxing skill but he has a little bit of power. Evander\u2019s been hit by some big bombers and never been knocked out, been stopped a couple times. So Vitor, I\u2019m not really underestimating him&#8230;For us, we\u2019re just making sure Evander\u2019s prepared physically, and mentally he\u2019s always prepared, and just make sure he does what he\u2019s supposed to do fight night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Vitor decides to come at Evander it might be a short evening because his chin is suspect \u2014 I\u2019m not really gonna say really suspect but he\u2019s been knocked out a few times. So if he comes to fight he makes it easy for us, if he runs then we got a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Eric Espada\/Getty Images Holyfield\u2019s trainer discusses what it took to get his fighter prepared to compete at age 58. During an interview with Fight Hype, trainer John David Jackson talks about his work with Evander Holyfield as he prepares him for his September 11 fight against Vitor Belfort. Jackson says that while Belfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}