This features Futch and Mike McCallum, I don't know if it has been posted before: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRqHA6DGxw&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRqHA6DGxw[/ame] I guess the link above isn't showing because of my post count. Search youtube for Mike McCallum: Aging Artist for the video. There's also a great one on Bill Miller and James Toney from the same channel.
met Futch about 10 years ago, and he was really cool to talk too he seemed to enjoy answering my questions as much as i liked hearing them. I will always remember him complementing my left hook. I asked him how he devised Norton and Fraizers fight plan against Ali and he was telling me to throw a left hook and telling me where he wanted Joe positioned and when to throw his left hook. Eddie Futch must have been in his mid 80s and had a young Blond wife, couldnt have been no older than 35 He was the last of the old time great trainers. Although Lou Duva has been around a while, i would put him on par with Futch. Forgot about Angelo,but Futch was a little older than him.
One of the great strategist trainers. There are very few trainers who can breakdown opponents, fighters and fights the way Futch did.
That's sounds like a great book which I HAVE to read sometime as it is my dream to become a boxing trainer. I will have to look around for a copy of it somewhere.
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My friend Armando used to write for a Mexican Boxing magazine published in LA. This guy knew every East LA fighter and he explained to me the history of boxing. He was very big on D'amato, Futch, and The Professor. He told me Futch never tried to change his fighters only to make them understand how to use their strengths in a way that was best suited for them. Unlike Steward who tries to make all fighters he trains suit his style.
Yey i found that out years ago in an Old Ring Record book and under the directorys of famous trainers and managers he had LA puente PO BOX, when i met him i asked him about it and he confirmed said he lived there for many many years.:yep Although originally he is from Detroit he had been on the West Coast for years.
Futch was such a nice guy Bowe kind of wasted his time ... I wish he would have spent his last years with better talent though the Pocket Rocket was cool
You have 2 books to look up both with extensive chapters on Eddie. Cornermen by Ron Fried and In This Corner by Dave Anderson. Ask your local librarian to acquire them for you, its easy and free even if they bring them on from outta state. [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Great-Boxing-Trainers-About/dp/0688119042[/ame] [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Corner-Men-Great-Boxing-Trainers/dp/0941423484[/ame]
Well thats just it, how many talents like Bowe come along in a trainers lifetime. Bowe was a great talent but he wasted it, although he was a two time champ.
I agree Bowe was just lazy... I rather take an overachieving limited man than an underachieving ace. I will take a Ken Norton over a Bowe anyday
:good Thank you for the suggestions my friend. I will look into both books. Gotta love that library system, that is how I got to read Becoming Holyfield.