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 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.

Watch it at Iron Forges Iron.

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.

The next fight recapped is Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika, which was a placeholder fight for Ward since Dirrell pulled out of their stage three fight. It was a pretty ugly fight from what I remember. I was there covering it for this website. Ward says you can’t feel the pain in the ring when it’s happening because the adrenaline takes over. But the next day, you feel everything.

Abraham’s next fight to stay warm was quickly recapped. He beat Stjepan Božić by TKO in the second round after Božić’s hand was fractured.

Ward’s camp thinks they’ll see the most dangerous Arthur Abraham because they think he feels he’s let his country down a bit. Ward says he can’t let Abraham pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Yet another excellent Fight Camp 360. Not sure why now that the Pacquiao/Mosley one was so disappointing.

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.

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.

Mosley tells the media that he’s going to disrupt Manny’s angles with rhythm. Naazim tells Al Bernstein that he’s glad he’s announcing because other announcers are too in love with Pacquiao. Steve Kim says the intrigue in this fight is the possibility of the upset.

Manny and his wife talk about how he’s so busy and it disrupts his family time. He says he has to let them know that his work is important. His wife says it’s hard on the kids.

Roach says this fight isn’t an easy one because of Mosley’s experience and that Manny is working hard, even if others think he shouldn’t.

And now, there’s a segment on Twitter.

This show did absolutely nothing for me. I’m still not certain how old man Mosley is supposed to beat Pacquiao, and if in fact, the intrigue is what Steve Kim said it is, then this show isn’t doing what it’s supposed to be doing. Mosley is trying to prove doubters wrong. Ok, but how? Has he figured out Manny’s style? Do they see chinks in the armor? I haven’t seen anything yet that gives me the idea that Mosley can win and this is a marketing vehicle that’s supposed to sell me on that idea and it’s not doing it. I think they sorely miss HBO’s 24/7.

In an interesting twist, it seems that they’re trying to show that Manny is such a star in the Phillipines, has his own TV show about himself starring himself, while Mosley is working hard to get that hunger back. It’s the Rocky III story, however, I think they told it before on a 24/7.

A major theme so far is that Pacquiao is super busy and he has a hard time being on time and makes a lot of people wait for him, including Freddie Roach. Roach says he’s not a father, but Manny’s the closest thing he has to a son. He says they’d die for each other.

I really enjoy the scenes so far with Shane and his son because the kid looks like a spitting image of him, but does look like his mother too. He trains with the camp and helps in the training.

Manny is shown as a man of his people, while Mosley says that he doesn’t need the accolades in comparison. His son truly believes in his dad, which is great to see. You can see that he idolizes him.

Roach tells this great story about Manny’s childhood friend Buboy who is also his trainer. Roach said the only time he was frustrated with Buboy was in the fight against Miguel Cotto when the game plan was to stay off the ropes, but Manny decided to prove his corner wrong that he could fight off the ropes against him. Buboy started crying because Manny wouldn’t stay off the ropes and Roach had to manage both Manny and Buboy at the same time.

I’m not sure if this was intended or not, but in the last training segment, Manny looked like a killer and they only showed Mosley doing light stuff, which kind of showed him a bit over the hill.

All in all, this was a pretty wasteful episode of the show. They have yet to hit on the fact of why we should shell out $60 for the fight. The pieces are there. Pacquiao is the biggest start in boxing. Mosley has a great story of redemption. But they have yet to put it together. I’ll have the recap to the third episode up tonight and the fourth tomorrow.

This episode is several weeks old, but with the schedule not consistent, I wasn’t really sure when these things were on. Here’s episode one:

Bob Arum is trying to sell that Pacquiao can’t fight defensive, so he’s playing right into Mosley’s hands and it should be a hellacious fight. Also, Mosley is playing the undercard/old man card.

At a photo shoot for fight promotion, they show Manny as a bit of a diva. He shows up late (Manny-time) and doesn’t want to be sprayed in the face with water because he always gets sick when he is sprayed, sort of like how he loses power when he gets blood drawn. Come on Pac-man.

At a Q&A event, a little girl asks Manny about his haircut and if it’s Justin Bieber-like. He says no, it’s Bruce Lee-like since Bruce Lee is his idol. Mosley and Pacquiao are both shown as “good guys” and there’s no real heel in the fight, though Mosley says that they both want to knock each other out.

Mosley talks a bit about his competitiveness and says he told his mother at 10 years old that he was going to be the world champion. They also show his new girlfriend. Yikes, they need to show this woman more and more.

Holy crap, someone was in a car accident while trying to take a picture of Manny while walking the streets, heading over to meet President Obama. Manny says Obama is rooting for him.

Finally, we get to see some training footage. I am amazed every time I see Manny’s hand speed. Mosley looks good too, but for whatever reason, all I can see out of Mosley is how he aged right before my eyes in that Floyd Mayweather fight. I’m not sure how I’m going to be able to unsee that.

For an introductory episode, they didn’t really do much other than show how much of a superstar Manny Pacquiao is, which is fine. He’s selling the fight. But it went really heavy on stuff that wasn’t important. I’m not sure how Mosley doesn’t get completely outshadowed in the build-up because you can only show the Antonio Margarito stuff so many times. Pacquiao has so much more impressive footage than Mosley does in the past few years.

That being said, Pacquiao is an absolute superstar and they need to continue to build him up that way. I just hope they figure out how to make Mosley more of an opponent in the eyes of the casual fans.

Seven weeks out before Dirrell vs. Ward, there’s clips of Dirrell and one of his trainers talking about why they’re not training yet. It very much looks like it’s a money thing rather than an injury thing.

Dan Goossen says that Kessler has double vision and he can’t fight and there’s nothing he can do about that. But then he can drive his car. Kessler’s promoter Kalle Sauerland says Kessler had no motive, but I’m not sure if he was being facetious or not.

Glen Johnson is going down in weight and will be replacing Kessler so that Green has a fight. Johnson says to come in the tournament at this stage and win it would be a great story.

Sauerland also promotes Abraham and says with all of Froch’s postponements, Abraham is frustrated because he’s used to fighting more.

Glen Johnson’s wife mentions the weight cut and calls it a challenge since Johnson hasn’t fought at 168 in over 10 years. Green says he never in a million years thought he’d have to fight Glen. He says as a younger fighter, he helped Glen by sparring for the Roy Jones Jr. fight. He said that back then, Roy got the best of him and knows that he has to knock him out in order to advance.

Froch said he pulled out of the early October date because he hurt his back and has fought hurt too many times and wouldn’t do it. Froch and Sauerland were arguing with each other over the Kessler/Froch decision, mostly because Abraham doesn’t speak English well enough and he picked up his slack. Unfortunately for us, Sauerland and Froch won’t fight.

Abraham thinks Dirrell not fighting is an excuse. Goossen says Ward was ok with fighting Dirrell. Dirrell’s handlers are making him look badly with how defensive they are, especially when his trainer says that if it wasn’t Dirrell, he’d probably try to rush him back to the ring. But Dirrell’s family so they’re taking it seriously. Some dudes should just stay away from the microphone.

Ward says he wants to finish what he started, which is to win the Super Six.

The show starts with footage from two months ago, with Allan Green landing in Oakland for his fight against Andre Ward. Green said that the pressure was all on Ward and he’d win. We know that didn’t end up being the case.

Ward called Green a bully and he got more upset than you’d think a pro boxer would get based on that word. Gray Maynard would’ve endorsed it.

There was a great shot of a Ward fan booing when Green came out but Green’s mom was right in front of him and she told him so.

Ward’s corner told Ward that Green looked bone dry as if to say that he cut a lot of weight.

Green’s mother, his brother, and his corner was yelling at him to do something all fight long. He never did. After the fight, he told Ward that he had to go up to 175 as if to say that the 168 weight cut was too tough.

Green said he could see everything, but his body couldn’t respond. He said his legs were weak. His mother was such a positive person, during and after the fight.

Green had to leave his hotel at 4AM. Jeez.

The more they show of Carl Froch’s girlfriend, the better. Or is she wifey? I forget. We’re back in Nottingham, England. They just had a son, baby Rocco.

He says that he’s not bitter about losing to Kessler at all and he has the opportunity to make things right.

Kessler and Abraham are talking about cars. Abraham says his new Ferrari goes 0-60 in just over three seconds. He doesn’t buy watches or jewelry, but driving a fast car to training relaxes him.

Andre Dirrell and his fiance were married in late April and he and his new wife were watching their wedding video and Dirrell was a dancing fool. He had a photo of he and Ward from when they were in their teens. Dirrell had a crazy afro. Ward said Dirrell was 125 and he was 165, but soon enough, Dirrell was at his weight.

Dirrell was doing some crazy jumps with his jump rope. He was triple jumping.

They showed footage of Kessler pulling out of the tournament. He says it will take about 9 months to be 100%.

Abraham vs. Froch is going to be a fantastic fight. And it’s only three weeks away.