Does anybody know much about the coach of Bryant Jennings? :think Who else does he train? Why did he box so briefly in the pros himself? (he only had three bouts in the seventies, after having apparently been a decent amateur who cut his teeth in the competitive Philly scene and went on to national success...) His son, Fred Jenkins Jr. is currently 8-1 (3) in the pros and cutting out a niche as moderate local draw in Philadelphia, headlining a ten-dollar internet PPV on GoFightLive this past Tuesday night at the former ECW Arena, scoring his first knockout since 2011 over 8-1-1 (6) Jeremy Trussell of Baltimore. I've read that Fred Sr. taught both Zahir Raheem and Malik Scott how to box when they were adolescents in the amateurs. He also worked for a time with the likes of 154lb titlist David Reid, 2-time heavyweight title challenger Vaughn Bean, and some other semi-notables. Is his stable currently just By-By Jennings and his own son? It seems odd that a longtime fixture in the game - over four decades - in a city with with boxing tradition like Philadelphia - would have not cornered more high-profile talents and become a familiar presence on TV. Maybe he just has that special affinity, that many coaches seem to have, for scouting & developing youth prodigies and then handing them off to 'grown-up coaches' after leading them as far as they can? :conf If that is the case, what made the raw Jennings strike him as special enough to entice Jenkins to 'go all the way' as the guide on his journey? Given how little amateur experience Jennings had to have clawed his way to standing tall as essentially the #1 American heavyweight (the only arguments being the immensely powerful but very protected and circus-act-vibe Wilder, and elder statesmen Cunningham and Thompson each with a foot out the door and probably no more than a loss or two from retirement...) one is compelled to look at the secret to his success and wonder if that might be the voice whispering in his ear for one minute of every four he spends in the ring...
Interesting thread.... He's definitely appears to be a pretty underrated trainer who has fallen under the radar.
Very interesting quote from Jenkins, right before Jennings vs. Perez: "People need to know that Bryant Jennings is still learning how to fight. On his skill level, he's at a B working on a B+. Each fight is a learning experience for him." :think
I just saw this thread again, thinking it was the first time I saw it, and I thought it read "Frog Jenkins, Sr." :rofl
