Fighters Who've Influenced Today's Trainers?

Tyson / Cus D'Amato has had a massive influence on Anatoly Lomachenko and, by extension, Vasyl, and the type of movement and combinations he uses. It is especially prevalent in his amateur fights. Tyson is actually Loma's favourite fighter. I'm also sure in my own mind that they have studied Canizales, Pep, and the like. There was also an old soviet fighter who had striking similarities to Loma, but I forget his name.

Jose Napoles, Sugar Ray Robinson were the fighters Salvador Sanchez mentioned himself explicitly as being the main focus of his boxing study, with his trainer. This is quite noticeable in the movement and some counters used.

Manny Pacquaio uses similar shifts and combos to the great Flash Elorde. Early on in his career, Pac was put up and mentored by Elorde's (grand?)son, I believe, who saw his talent and knew he would be a star.

Archie Moore used the old, bare knuckle moves of trainer Hiawatha Gray, and adapted them to gloves, including his famous cross guard.

 

Muhammad Ali took Angelo Dundee from being a good Trainer to being a great one. The way Dundee learned to influence Ali using things like reverse psychology makes fascinating reading.
Dundee was possibly the only Trainer the young Sugar Ray Leonard could have worked with because by then he had learned so much from his years with Ali.

 

Melankomas of Caria inspired basically every defensive fighter who ever lived afterwards!

 

Wasn't Bill Miller influenced by Ezzard Charles while training James Toney?

 

If you have been wasting your life in boxing gyms long enough, you will recall that there was a whole generation of African American guys in gyms that would trace their boxing lineage one way or the next to Ezzard Charles. I have been fortunate to know two such men and one of them taught me an awful lot about boxing. Now it seems that the association goes back to the Mayweathers.
Similarly, years ago many Mexican American trainers had a picture of themselves with Julio Cesar Chavez, but for some time now he has been replaced by Juan Manuel Marquez.

 

Viktor Ageev?

 

I'm not sure. I checked footage of him, and I don't think so. But thanks for giving me a lead on it RU.

 

Don't think this is the guy either, but he has some similarities, but as an orthodox.

I'm finding loads of cool stuff I never heard of before.

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Yup. He spoke of Ezz often.

 

No problem...hes probably my favorite Soviet amateur along with Popenchenko

 

Didn’t Abel Sanchez say he built Gennady Golovkin to be a middleweight Chavez

 

Hi. I’m a huge fan of Charles. I would very much appreciate if you would be gracious enough to share what those men said about Charles, both as a fighter and a man, and what they learnt from his style.