On a latest stay podcast, Corridor of Fame announcer and coach Teddy Atlas did a fast run-through of his “High 10 Trainers.”
It needs to be famous that he humbly left himself off the record.
There are a number of good trainers on the market, and it’s onerous to slender it down to only 10; this record might be longer. However this record highlights 10 of boxing’s greatest.
*Observe – Atlas did the record. I did the transient bios.
10. Freddie Roach. , powerful fighter throughout his personal profession, he has had his best success within the sport as a coach with an limitless record of contenders and champions. Confronted off in opposition to Atlas when Teddy was cornering Timothy Bradley, and Roach had Philippine legend Manny Pacquiao. His Los Angeles-based “Wild Card Gymnasium” has churned out dozens of world champions and lately celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Situated on a nook of Vine Road and Santa Monica Boulevard, it’s now known as “Freddie Roach Sq.”. Together with 8-time champion Pacquiao, he has labored with five-time and four-division world champion Miguel Cotto, and three-time world champion James Toney, amongst many others. Freddie was inducted into the IBHF in 2012.
9. Roger Mayweather – A former 2-time world champion himself, he had 79 professional fights. He’s from the well-known preventing Mayweather clan of boxers with brothers Floyd and Jeff. He had nice success as a coach of his nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr., thought-about one among boxing’s greatest throughout his time. After years of well being struggles, we misplaced Roger in 2020.
8. Angelo Dundee – Most well-known for his lengthy relationship with “The Biggest” Muhammad Ali. Initially from New York Metropolis, Dundee relocated to Miami, Florida, the place he labored along with his brother Chris, who owned the “fifth Road Gymnasium”. Together with Ali, Dundee labored with quite a few different world champions, together with Sugar Ray Leonard. An exquisite, participating character who at all times championed the game. He was inducted into the IBHF in 1992. He handed at age 90, in 2012.
7. Nacho Beristain – A legend in Mexican boxing for the variety of champions he has educated. He was a professional boxer himself, however an eye fixed damage pressured him to retire. As a coach within the novice ranks, he led Mexico to medal wins on the 1968, 1976 and 1980 Olympic Video games. As a professional coach he has labored with an extended record of champions, together with Daniel Zaragoza, Juan Manuel Marquez, Rafael Marquez, Ricardo Lopez, Humberto Gonzalez, and Oscar De La Hoya, amongst others. He was inducted into the IBHF in 2010.
6. Jack Blackburn – An excellent mild heavyweight who had over 160 professional bouts. He by no means gained a world title, however he did battle a few of the best fighters of his (and all) time. After retiring from boxing, Blackburn educated legend Joe Louis beginning in June 1934, shortly earlier than Louis’s professional debut. Blackburn’s crowning second as a coach got here in June of 1937 when Joe Louis took the world heavyweight championship from Jim Braddock at Comiskey Park in Chicago with a KO 8. Blackburn additionally labored with mild heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis, bantamweight champion Bud Taylor, in addition to Artwork Lasky, Jackie Fields, Lew Tendler, Sailor Freedman, and Von Porat. He additionally educated Jersey Joe Walcott for a short while. Actually, one of many early legends in boxing coaching.
5. Eddie Futch – A quiet, well-spoken grasp coach. Futch moved to Detroit, Michigan as a younger boy. He later took up boxing, and in 1932, Futch gained the Detroit Athletic Affiliation light-weight championship, and in 1935, he gained the Detroit Golden Gloves. He educated on the identical health club as Joe Louis and infrequently sparred with him. A coronary heart concern prevented Futch from turning skilled, and he started coaching boxers. As a coach, he dealt with Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick. He additionally labored with Riddick Bowe, Eire’s Wayne McCullough, future Corridor of Fame coach Freddie Roach, and others. Futch was inducted into the IBHF in 1994.
4. George Benton – A Philadelphias legend as each a fighter and coach. He boxed professionally from 1949 to 1970 and defeated many future world champions. In 76 professional bouts, he was by no means knocked down. Benton had an expert document of 62–13–1 (37 KOs). He was the #1-ranked middleweight within the Sixties. His preventing profession ended when he was shot in a bar battle. Along with his boxing profession over, he turned to coaching. He studied below legend Eddie Futch and labored with Joe Frazier and Leon Spinks, amongst others. Later, he could be the top coach for the massive secure of champions for the Duva household and their “Principal Occasion” promotions, together with Evander Holyfield, Oliver McCall, Mike McCallum, Meldrick Taylor, Pernell Whitaker, and others. Benton was well-known for his cross-arm fashion of protection that turned often called the “Philly shell”.
3. Emanuel Steward – Famed Detroit coach and later HBO commentator. Generally known as “The Godfather of Detroit Boxing,” Steward educated 41 world champions all through his legendary profession out of the well-known Kronk Gymnasium. He labored with Thomas Hearns, Vladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, James Toney, Oscar De La Hoya, Evander Holyfield, Mark Breland, Miguel Cotto, Jimmy Paul, and actually dozens of others. We misplaced Emanuel in 2012 at age 68. He’s a member of the IBHF.
2. Ray Arcell – Born in 1899 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Arcel educated to be a fighter in New York after his household moved to Manhattan. Arcel apprenticed in boxing below Dai Dollings and Frank ‘Doc’ Bagley, who labored with many legends, together with Gene Tunney. Arcel educated his first world champion, flyweight Frankie Genaro, in 1923. The very subsequent yr, Arcel labored along with his 2nd champion, Abe Goldstein, who gained the bantamweight title. Arcel would then go on to coach a number of legends, together with Henry Armstrong, Barney Ross, and Tony Zale, amongst others. Arcel additionally educated Panama’s Roberto Duran. Arcel would depart Roberto Duran, nevertheless, after Duran give up in opposition to Sugar Ray Leonard within the ‘No Mas’ match. After the battle, Arcel mentioned, “No person quits in my nook.” The final fighter Arcel labored with was heavyweight legend Larry Holmes. Arcel died in 1994, on the age of 93. He took over 20 fighters to the world title and educated over two thousand boxers. Arcel was revered by everybody within the sport.
1- Cus D’Amato – You realize Atlas has a smooth spot for the person below whom he apprenticed throughout his time in D’Amato’s Catskills Boxing Membership. Born within the Bronx, New York, in 1908, he’s maybe most well-known for working with a then-undiscovered Mike Tyson. Cus was additionally a supervisor, promoter, together with being coach. He harassed the significance of conquering the psychological aspect of the sport to permit fighters to beat their ring nerves. He educated a powerful record of fighters, together with Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and Jose Torres, all of whom went on to be inducted into the IBHOF. He was a proponent of the peek-a-boo fashion of defence, which Tyson used all through his profession. Sadly, Cus died in 1985, earlier than he received to see his dream of Tyson successful the world heavyweight title. He was inducted into the IBHF in 1995.
