What were Norman Stone's qualifications as a trainer?

He was a believer in hard work, self appointed, great motivation, hell-raiser, meant well, wanted to win and seeminly cared for his boy... Aside from being zany and high strung, he guided Johnny Ruiz to the WBA title... I gotta respect him for that....

MR.BILL

 

Some great motivational speaking here.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TVi6qugGBw[/ame]

War Stoney

 

More of stoney being himself.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIrXDE_IOMo[/ame]

 

Never thought I'd ever see Alton Merkeson annoyed or the slightest bit aggressive, he just didn't seem the type, calm and gentle; he'd seen war, and survived, nothing could push him any more.

Then he met Norman Stone.

 

Norman needs to be kept in a straight jacket... atsch

 

Love how people like to talk **** about the man.

He brought Johnny up to a championship, and more importantly, he's done work with amateur kids over the years, training many kids for free. But I guess you guys don't know about that.

 

The rare breed that gets the most out of the least. Just how many others really pull that kind of thing off? And one thing he always did was to not have his guys enter the ring cold and stale. They were sweated up and ready to go & how often do we see guys come into the ring dry as a bone?

 

I loved it when Stoney called referee Randy Neuman a "Jerk Off" and got the big 86....

MR.BILL

 

Good question

Like, has he ever boxed? If so amateur only or professional as well?

What other fighters, if any, has he trained besides John Ruiz?

I have never heard of any others besides Johnny

 

QUALIFICATIONS??

whatever he had it helped guide a bloke to the a pice of the heavyweight championship of the world who probably never of would of believed in his own wildest dreams he could.

 

Let's not overestimate Stone, at least using Ruiz as a basis. Without King's influence, Ruiz would never have gotten the ratings he did, and never gotten the blind eye toward his illegal holding tactics that allowed him to "beat" more talented fighters at the world class level.

 

How good is stoney..

Seriously who wouldnt fight for this guy..

 

Seriously bring stoney back..

This bloke atleast deserves a reality show..