BOXINGS GREATEST WORKOUTS
BY GARY TODD
A behind-the-scenes, fly-on-the-wall look at a training day-in-the-life of the world's best boxers
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Gary Todd is a man who walks the walk and has talked the talk with some of the fight game's biggest names.
He is an international author and has been involved in all aspects of the boxing game for over 25 years.
As always, he will do almost anything to get an interview.

Ricky Hatton will not be having a tune up fight before he faces the challenge of his life in June, against the knockout specialist , Kostya Tszyu.

I spoke this morning with a close camp member and he told me that Ricky would be refreshing his body totally , before going into his own unique training camp, in which he endures hundreds of rounds on the" body belt" and" bag bar."

These exercise have given him an edge over every fighter he has faced so far, and while it is unbelievably gruelling, it is his secret to success.

Tszyu will be starting his preparation in early March, which will see him go to "extreme" power training where he says "every muscle in my body will hurt" From there, he will go back to his gym in Sydney, were he will build up his fitness with long periods of skipping, and bagwork, and floorwork exercises. The final stages are his sparring and technique training, in which he uses 3 sparring partners , each doing 4 rounds each.

Watching these two fighters prepare is just unbelievable, and can only mean one thing, come June- we will have two of the fittest, strongest athletes on the planet, with only one thing on their mind. K.O.

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