Teddy Atlas, B.S. artist ???

Man I really like Atlas , I hope thats just been taken out of context.

he havers a lot of pish but I really like him and Tessitore ( depsite the paedo beard ! )

 

i like teddy too but i don't know what to believe, the people who love him make him sound like a legend but those who hate him give a huge contrast in character, what is the story about him getting jumped by 7 dudes and being able to take them all out? in the playboy article on tyson he is accused of being really crazy by the catskill camp, as in someone they could not trust,

 

In the recent Playboy article Atlas also claims that both Jimmy Jacobs and Cus were homosexual and that Jacobs died of AIDS. So, it looks like the People Magazine writer did not twist Teddy's words if he is still talking about it today.

 

If he thinks you'd buy it, Teddy Atlas would tell you that he stopped the vietnam war singlehandedly behind a good jab and a nice right hook.

Teddy Atlas is a fun guy to watch but I don't think there's a bigger BS artist in the WORLD than Teddy.

 

Yes it was 2 issues ago so it was probably the February issue. They interviewed Rooney, Jose Torres, Atlas, Steve Lott, Jay Bright, and a couple of other people I have never heard of that were around the D'Amato house that they all lived in the early days. Basically everyone said Atlas was a shady POS and Atlas said that he thought D'Amato and Jim Jacobs were gay lovers because they lived in an apartment in NY together for years. That is when he said he believes Jacobs died of AIDS.

It was a great article and you could probably find a copy online somewhere.

 

I've never read that article but I've heard those rumors about Jacobs and D'Amato on the internet, back when secondsout had a forum.

Anyway, Atlas is full of it.

It's humorous to me how people act like he's some great trainer when the track record proves otherwise. Even Aaron "Condom on the Eye" Snowell did more as a pro trainer than Atlas.

 

it was the playboy issue with adriana curry on the cover, it was 2 or 3 issues ago, rico said it best bout what it said, he seems like he knows the sport as far as training people but he is still a shady cat, he seems like the kind of dude that would do anything to get back at someone, at any cost

 

i didnt understand why he dumped briggs cuz of his loss to darroll wilson, i thought that was pretty harsh to dump your fighter cuz he lost a bout and said he had an asthma attack, i'm sure briggs was tellin the truth, he wasn't mentally ready for a fighter like wilson just yet, and panicked when he couldn't get him out of there with ease, i remember him bitching out moorer against holyfield, tellin him not to come back to the corner if he didn't follow his orders

 

what trainer DOESNT give numbers to combos?

 

I didn't see the article, but as a kid I fought in the same area as Teddy Atlas. While I never saw him fight in person he did stop one of the toughest kids in my club. I don't know what his record was, but his rep back than was that he was a pretty good fighter. Tough and a decent puncher.