I trained with Michael B Jordan on Creed film set and he could easily become a boxer

Michael B Jordan plays a boxer on screen, but former champion Tony Bellew believes he could be the real deal if he decided to swap careers. The pair currently starring alongside each other in Creed 3, the latest in the film franchise from the Rocky Balboa universe.

Michael B Jordan plays a boxer on screen, but former champion Tony Bellew believes he could be the real deal if he decided to swap careers.

The pair currently starring alongside each other in Creed 3, the latest in the film franchise from the Rocky Balboa universe.

At the UK premiere in London in February, former cruiserweight world champion-turned actor, Bellew, spoke to Virgin Radio and claimed Jordan has what it takes to be a professional boxer.

"Michael B Jordan is one of the best athletes I've ever trained alongside," he said.

"When we were training for Creed I, we were living in Philadelphia and we were training together on a regular basis and he is such a good athlete.

"Give me six months [as his trainer] and I could easily win him a couple of fights, no problem at all.

"He would eat a couple of these YouTubers, no problem.

"He is such a good athlete, learns the basics of boxing and can punch. Michael could beat anyone he wants, he would just need a bit of time to adjust and learn.

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"But ultimately, I'm not sure he'd want to mess with that pretty face of his, because as everyone knows you can't get in the water without getting wet and you can't get in the boxing world without getting punched in the face, really and not choreographed as well.

"So, I wouldn't advise it, but I would definitely back him if i was training him to beat a couple of guys."

Creed tells the story of Adonis Creed, son of legendary Apollo, who was played by Carl Weathers in the original Rocky films.

And Jordan has bled for the role, with Sylvester Stallone aka Rocky Balboa, once revealing Bellew knocked him out for real in the first film.

In the second and third films, though, he managed to avoid being floored by Bellew, but still had to face the daunting prospect of avoiding the sizeable frame of Florian 'Big Nasty' Munteanu AKA Viktor Drago.

The man who has helped transform Jordan into a boxer has been Corey Calliet, with the pair having worked together for all three movies.

This time around, Calliet has had to balance Jordan's training with his directorial duties, this being his movie directing debut.

This has meant that Calliet has been focusing more on short efficient training sessions, noting in an interview with BarBend that: "You don’t have to spend two and a half hours in the gym to change your body."

In preparation for Creed III Jordan has been training three to four times a day, which includes an intense cardio workout in the morning, followed by boxing at midday and then he finishes with either more cardio or weight lifting in the evening.

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