Question.......Ex Pro's becoming Trainer's (kinda)

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Kostya Tszyu is training Denis Lebedev. Too early to tell where that one is going.

I can see JMM becoming a trainer or at the very least a top analyst.

 

Pat Flash Barrett had a pretty good career. He is now training and took over Brian Hughes stable I think.

 

Same can be said for many sports, exceptional participants dont usually make good coaches, football always being the obvious example. This is probably down to a number of things such as;

. Pros that didnt make it to the top can pass on advice so their fighters dont make the same mistakes.

.Boxers that didnt make it to the top as a fighter being hungrier for success as a coach that someone that had it as a fighter.

. Some coaches may have picked up an injury so they went into coaching at a younger age than someone who went onto have a long successful career.

. Also Most fighters dont have anything to fall back on as boxing is all they know so they have to go into coaching to pay the bills. Fighters who have made it to the top can make money from TV appearences, Sportsmans dinners etc so are less motivated to go into coaching, which for the most part isnt that lucrative.


As for who I think may make a good coach, I mite get pelters for this but Floyd Mayweather. If he was half as dedicated as a coach as he was a boxer he would surely be a success.

 

Kostya's not training him full time. He lives half his time in Oz with his family.

 

To be honest its an interesting subject and the geekish side of me would like to dig into this deeper to see if there is a trend in every sport and why this is.

P.s I think winston has to be the best avatar picture on this site.

 

I think Bernard would make a very good mentor for a fighter and has had great teaching. He will have to accept that he cannot ask every fighter to be as technically gifted and disciplined as him. Like in any sport you have to coach and accept levels your working with.

I be back with some predictions/punts in a bit...tougher then actually predicting how good a fighter a prospect would be.

 

How about Matt Macklin as a trainer? :think

 

Basically top participants generally dont make good trainers for the simple reason that most are instinctively good they dont analyse there performance in the same way that a trainer might be able to from an outside perspective.

Clearly they are able to make a certain amount of conscious adjustments during a fight but many of the tiny changes in the way that they fight they do through instinct. All the calculations that their brain is making are happening at a million miles per hour and most of these top participants arent able to actually break down that process. For example somebody who is an amazing dribbler of the ball in football probably couldnt tell you the exact reason that the defender foot positions and body language meant that they would be skinned by a step over then a flick left and a change of direction they just do it.

The skill of being a trainer is being able to understand all the intricacies of a sport then being able to teach a participant how to implement these skills in the best way with the participants skillset in mind. Its not an easy job. You can just imagine the frustration the Pernell Whittaker must have trying to teach his charges how to be as evasive as he was.