He was a great boxer’s trainer or a great puncher’s trainer; plus, he was a great match maker(not putting his young fighters against top talent too quickly). The problem was he was not great with hybrid fighters or boxer-punchers. I could see him doing well with Robinson or Hearns, because they did everything from a boxer stance. Leonard could box from a boxer's stance, but punched with lunges or ducking and coming up with punches(as Norton and Frazier did). Since Leonard could not box and punch from the same stance and Dundee forced his fighters to box, Leonard could not always listen to Dundee. Listening to Angelo, in the Hearns fight, cost him possibly 9 rounds and a detached retina--when puncher mode Leonard could have ended it in the first 1/3 of the fight. OVERRATED IS PROBABLY WAY TOO STRONG, BUT HE HAD HIS WEAKNESSES AS A TRAINER, TOO. Do you agree with this opinion that I pasted?
His track record speaks for itself. It would be easy to sit back and pick apart anyone after the fact.
