Richard Torrez Jr Says Most Heavyweights Only Have “Four Good Rounds”

“I’m going to take you to hell and back. I’m going to dog it out of you. I’m going to be there in your face the entire night, but I’m going be there in a manner to where sometimes you can’t punch me, sometimes you can’t,” said Torrez Jr. “I’m going to faint you. I’m going to get you mentally and physically tired.

“If I’m fainting the entire night on you, I don’t have to hit you all the time. If I’m just fainting on you and I get you to get that mental little twitch to not know if you’re going to fight or not know if you’re going to throw or not, that’s going to tire you out, man.

“And then after those rounds go a little bit more and more, then I still have I’m still gonna punch. I’m still gonna go. I’m still gonna drive.”

Torrez also separated himself from the one-punch heavyweight stereotype, arguing that conditioning becomes far more dangerous when combined with speed, power, and ring IQ.

“I understand that people say, ‘Conditioning only goes so far.’ Yes, but if we can incorporate that with the power I have, or the speed I have, or the ring IQ I have, that’s where that level changes,” said Torrez Jr.

“A lot of these heavyweights, whether you like it or not, they got four good rounds in them. Even at the top level, excluding Usyk and some of these other guys, these big dudes, they don’t have that tank anymore.

“I’m not going to do that. I’m going to go out there. I’m going to continue to punch until you go down.”