This was the last episode that was broadcasted after Ward beat Froch in November.

One day before the fight, they had footage of Ward feeling out the ring in an empty arena, right out of Rocky.

Ward tells Antonio Tarver that he’s never seen Froch defend himself on the inside. He walks by Froch and gives him a little icy stare while Froch smiles it off. Ward’s wife says that Froch is feeling himself a bit too much.

After the fight, Bernard Hopkins told Ward that his legacy starts from this fight on.

Froch was very earnest in defeat. He told his girlfriend that Ward was just too slick for him. He also said he felt like he didn’t hit him with his left hand at all.

The episode starts with green screen footage from the day before the tournament was announced, over two years ago. Hey, Jermain!

The show flashes back to the May fight between Arthur Abraham and Andre Ward. At the press conference, Virgil Hunter, Ward’s trainer was picking on Abraham by saying that his promoter didn’t have confidence in him anymore. He stayed on him when Abraham was trying on his gloves, saying that he didn’t hit hard. It was pretty disrespectful.

With the production of the fight, they made Abraham into a pretty compelling character. I actually care more about Abraham now than I did before this tournament started. Arthur is now portrayed as a fighter who doesn’t follow his game plan for whatever reason.

Before Carl Froch’s fight with Glen Johnson, Ward says that he thinks it should be he and Froch in the final because they were there from the start.

And yes, we get to see Carl’s girlfriend for a bit. During the fight, Glen got a lot more of Carl than I remember.

It looks like there will be one last Fight Camp 360 before the Super Six Final previewing the big fight between Andre Ward and Carl Froch.

Edit: Duan found the video on YouTube.

It took the final 15 minute episode for the Showtime Sports crew to get a really good episode out of this series. This episode is brilliant. For such a boring fight, there was great video of a trainer who believed in his fighter more than the fighter believed in himself. Pacquiao comes off as the uber-star that he is and someone needs to teach Jamie Foxx a thing or two about boxing.

Watch it at Iron Forges Iron.

I believe this is the first episode in six months. And follows the terrible Pacquiao/Mosley Fight Camp 360 series. Let’s hope the stench of that series doesn’t carry back over to this one, which has been very well done so far.

The show starts with a minute from every camp of the remaining four fighters in the Super Six (Carl Froch, Glen Johnson, Arthur Abraham, and Andre Ward). Abraham knows it’s his last chance in the tournament and he’s been somewhat of a disappointment. Ward talks about being a little overlooked.

The Allan Green vs. Glen Johnson fight is recapped. Gary Shaw told Johnson that he has to be his fighter now that Andre Dirrell is out of the tournament. I’m sure that went over well with Johnson’s promoter. Johnson’s trainer says they’ll get out of him before the 9th round.

Green’s story is that Johnson continued to hit him in the back of the head, including the knockout punch. Green complained to the referee while he was on the ground. Green was turning away from shots, which partially seemed to be the reason why he was getting hit there.

Next is the Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham fight and like usual, Froch’s girl is the star. She’s near ringside, right behind the announce team and her foul language can be heard over the broadcast. Someone tells her to step back and she says no, until she’s told that she doesn’t have to stop shouting. Froch completely out-classed him and maybe even more so than I remember.

There’s a great moment when Abraham and Froch meet each other after the fight and awkwardly have small talk. They take a photo together and Abraham looks a little beaten.
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This is the last episode of the series and I sure hope they have something good. It’s been a pretty disappointing series so far, which doesn’t make sense because the Super Six episodes were so good.

Manny Pacquiao shows off his CD single called Sometimes When We Touch. Hahahahahahaha.

Ricky Hatton talks about his fight with Manny for some reason. Why would he want to talk about this fight? And yes, he looks like Ricky Fatton. Kudos to him to talk about it.

This show jumps around way too much. Now Bobby Pacquiao, Manny’s brother is talking about Manny the humanitarian, which we already saw so much of in the last episode.

Manny shoots a piece with Norm MacDonald, which was pretty funny about how guys whose nicknames are Sugar are pretty damn good. Roach says that it’s hard to get Pacquiao to stop working out so hard. He said that when Mike Tyson came to see them working out one time close to fight time, he told Roach that Manny needs to slow down. Roach told him that was slow.

Yay! More Margarito/Mosley! I’m being totally facetious here. I never want to see this fight ever again.

Johnny Tapia shows up to Pacquiao’s training session and they talk about the WBO and how their purses were really good. Manny says, I want the purse, not the belt. Shows you how much boxing belts are over.

Shane’s fine girlfriend tried to surprise him in Vegas, but he knew she was there. Even though it was kind of a non-sequitor, I liked it because she was on the show.

I really don’t like it when Pacquiao’s camp talks about how people thought him fighting guys like Miguel Cotto was a mistake because Cotto was bigger. Pacquiao was favored and thought people thought Cotto had a chance, more people thought Manny was going to win. Come on guys. You can’t play the Pacquiao underdog card anymore. You just can’t.

They had nice footage of today’s weigh-ins which was a tremendous turnaround. And the show ends with Dr. Dre’s new song called Die Hard and a pretty sweet training montage.

Naazim Richardson says that people forget what Mosley has done to get here and he’s right. But that speaks more to how good Pacquiao is rather than anything negative about Mosley.

I thought this Fight Camp 360 was terrible. They showed too much of the same footage over and over again and didn’t tell the story that needed to be told in order to sell the fight. Maybe Showtime didn’t believe in that story. But that’s their job and they didn’t do it.

This is a longer episode as it was an hour long CBS episode in prime time on the weekend.

Shane Mosley talks about why he works with Naazim Richardson. Naazim says that even though Mosley was so acclaimed already, he was willing to work. They show footage of Mosley’s fights with Antonio Margarito and Oscar De La Hoya as a way to show how deep Mosley can dig inside.

For whatever reason, they show a photo shoot with his girlfriend Bella Gonzalez and him, which doesn’t help tell any story, but hey, Bella is nice to look at.

And, we get to see Manny playing basketball. That’s going to make me want to buy this fight for sure.

Shane’s dad talks about how Shane got started in boxing and how Sugar Ray Robinson showed up at some of his early amateur fights and Shane told him that he was going to be one of the great Sugar’s.

Some of Pacquiao’s early career was shown to show how he made himself into who he is today. Team Mosley watched some of Pacquiao’s second fight with Juan Manuel Marquez and Richardson was talking about how to catch Pacquiao.

Buboy talks about how he got into the boxing game. Manny basically picked him out of the slums and told him to learn how to become a trainer.
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