Name a fighter whose career was negatively affected by the loss of a trainer ...

Joe Baksi had recently begun a comeback and was facing Bob Baker. Sometime during the 10-rounder Baksi's manager Leo Feuereisen collapsed and required medical attention while the fight continued. Baksi lost the 10-rounder but his manager died in the dressing room while being addressed. Baksi and the manager were very close and Joe never fought again.

 

Riddick Bowe was the poster child for this after losing Eddie Futch.

 

Chad Dawson after he left Mayweather.

 

Rafael Marquez leaving Nacho Beristain.

 

Brendan Ingle had a certain style he would teach fighters. He taught this style to Prince Hamed, Johnny Nelson and Herol Graham. Somewhere during Graham's career during a change in management (I believe), the new management wanted Ingle out. Unable to attend his corner Ingle was ringside at Graham's first fight with Sumbu Kalambay. Graham suffered by not having Ingle in his corner. I recall reading this article in Boxing News where it stated that Ingle finally jumped out of his seat in frustration yelling, "Herol, use your jab!". Needless to say, Graham lost that fight.

 

I remember someone saying, “Brendan Ingle’s fighters even walked to the gym backwards.”

He certainly taught boxing a different way than most. The gym floor or ring had all these footwork patterns laid out on it that looked like an indecipherable roadmap of sorts.

I met him at a show on my one trip to England. He had Johnny Nelson with him. They were as nice as could be.

 

The sudden death of Yank Durham deeply hurt Joe Frazier. He had been like a father to Joe. While Eddie Futch was good for Joe, it seemed that the loss of Durham was too big of a void to fill

Jack Dempsey's split with "Doc' Kearns adversely affected him. In his autobiography, he tells how Kearns took him to the top but after their split, Kearns worked twice as hard against him as he had ever worked for him. Kearns kept hitting Dempsey, who was training for Tunney, with lawsuits, stating that he was 'licking him for Gene Tunney.' As shady as Kearns may have been, when he and Dempsey were together they were a powerful team. Three years of inactivity, the Hollywood good life, and not having Kearns in his corner certainly led to Dempsey being ripe for the taking against Tunney.

 

Rocky Balboa wasn’t the same that night Mickey Goldmill died on the way to the ring, but Apollo Creed came along to teach him some new tricks.