"Yes, I did see Floyd. As you know, I'm one of the trainers there. I saw him 2-3 times before I really brought it up to him," stated Dewey Cooper, world-class trainer of WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas, who revealed that he spoke to retired undefeated former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather about their game plan for the upcoming November 5 showdown with 8-division world champion Manny Pacquiao. Over the past several weeks, Mayweather has been frequenting his gym, the Mayweather Boxing Club, and Cooper, who trains several of his fighters there, jumped at the opportunity to speak with him and get his opinion on their strategy.
"I didn't bring it up the first two times I saw him because I already formulated a game plan and we were already three weeks into the camp. We weren't going to change the game plan that we made already. I just was talking to him to really just get his opinion and to see how close he was to what we already designed. Everything that he said was everything that we felt about the fight anyway. He told me some key things, but it was the things we discovered in film and not underestimating him, which we're not anyway," Cooper explained during a recent interview with FightHype.com.
He added, "I wanted to see what we were going to do first and then talk to him to see if what he said lined up with what we planned to do. We did our research, we created our method that is what we are going to do. We talked to an expert about what he would do to see if it coincided with our method and it did. So we were confident that we had the right game plan from the get go and that's the way we've been going at it.
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