You're leaving out Emile Griffith BTW--(which is a major omission when speaking about Gil Clancy as a trainer.) But back to the question posed by the OP--I thought he was an excellent trainer with a pretty distinguished track record. (Additionally, I thought Clancy was a GREAT color commentator--he and Tim Ryan together were outstanding! Always enjoyed having those two on the call for a prime-time fight!)
Also the trainer of Rodrigo Valdez Helped out with Jerry Quarry too. I believe he taught Griffith and Valdez when both were just getting started in their careers.
Wasn't he a gym instructor? He was in Ali's corner along with Angelo Dundee for the Banks fight. He said when Banks dropped him he was more worried about Angie.
Hi Buddy. I was lucky enough to see Ahumada when he came over here to fight Conteh for the world title, he did his groundwork and sparring in a plush hotel in mayfair, so I got of work one Friday about 10.30am, before you start, I started work at 4am the previous day, had a full english in the greasy spoon, poached instead of fried, the old men in the cafe thought that was very refined, rounded off with apple crumble, lashings of custard nacth, then caught the 149 to the west end, this was on the old type bus where by the back was open, and you only had a white pole to hold on to, anyway half hour later arrived at the hotel, was surprised and elated when I realised they were not charging punters to go in and see him go through his paces, fortunately for me ( I was getting tired ) he elected to do his sparing first, he had bought 2 partners from Argentina, and very tough and rugged they looked, he spared 10 rounds in all, 5 apiece, thing was both were smallish and stout, yet he was fighting Conteh who was a lot taller, didn't make sense to me but, the sparing followed a distinct pattern, Jorge was seemingly uninterested for 2/3rds of the round, and only threw punches with minimal effect, but in the closing 3rd he would crank up the volume and weight of the punches, he would pound the ribs for a minute or so, then go up to the head, by the end of every round his salvos were harder and more hurtful, mind you the paid staff took their lumps' with admiral stoicism, at times he would lay back on the ropes and counter, lesson learned from Galindez no doubt, as a fighter he looked strong and had limitless stamina, but like a few South Americans and Agentines in particular adopted a languid and unrushed approach to his fighting, think Monzon, when the sparring was over, the partners left the ring and headed for the shower rooms, they both took off their vests whilst walking from the ring, and their swarthy bronzed torsos showed welts and bruise on the way, a testament to the velocity of Ahumadas punches !! On the bus home, to a well earned sleep, I mused that if Conteh was to win, it wouldn't be easy. Stay safe scart, chat soon, buddy.
I’ve never constructed a list rating trainers. But I’m guessing Clancy has to be one of the top ten best.
I seem to remember Gil sharing the mike sometimes with Angelo Dundee on fight broadcasts. Now there was a great combo. BTW, if you had a young promising fighter, who would you pick as trainer? Clancy or Dundee?
Dundee made his fighters the best versions of themselves. Clancey seemed to make them into the version he saw fit.
