Howard Davis Discusses Rahdi Ferguson

(Howard Davis holds the mitts for Rhadi Ferguson. Photo courtesy of ProMMAnow.com)

Olympic boxing gold medalist Howard Davis will be cornering fellow Olympian Rahdi Ferguson tomorrow night at the Strikeforce Challengers show in Nashville.   Davis is the head boxing instructor at American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Florida, and was part of Team Liddell on TUF Season 11.   Rhadi is making his Strikeforce debut tomorrow, and the world class judoka is obviously a great grappler, but it will be interesting to see how well he performs with his hands.  Davis was a slick boxer back in the day, and it's great to see him involved in the sport of MMA.

A bit of trivia:  I attended the last scheduled 15 round fight in the United States, before the switch was made to shorten title fights to 12 rounds.  Can you guess who one of the fighters was in that historic bout?  That's right, Howard Davis.  I still have the ticket stub to that event, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

Anyway, here's a video, courtesy of ProMMAnow.com, of Howard Davis talking about Rahdi Ferguson and what he expects from the talented Strikeforce fighter.