Which Active Pro Fighters Will Become the Best Trainer

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  1. mgdb26

    mgdb26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    KTFO beat you to Butterbean
     
  2. Ring Master

    Ring Master The Originator Full Member

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    yeah he was on fire. I should have said Christy Martin, oh well too late b/c i said i was going to stop:D
     
  3. klion22

    klion22 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yeah, but he sounds like a moron doing it. At least B-Hop saids things that make sense. Well, to some extent.
     
  4. NoCoolFool?

    NoCoolFool? Active Member Full Member

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    Question is impossible to answer. Why would a great fighter = a great trainer? Different skillset completely. Look at Arcel, Futch, D'amato, Roach...
     
  5. David_TheMan

    David_TheMan ESB Sage Full Member

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    Sugar Shane, Winkey Wright, Cory Spinks, JMM, Guzman, Nate Campbell, B-Hop, and RJJ.
     
  6. mgdb26

    mgdb26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I didn't say "great fighter" I said "active pro fighter", read the title
     
  7. NoCoolFool?

    NoCoolFool? Active Member Full Member

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    I realize that. But everyone is listing great fighters. Because we think we know the personalities of these fighters because they are the ones we hear get interviewed all the time (or we just think great fighter = great trainer...which is false)
    How many of us know the skills required to be a greater trainer? Who can even define it? Who of us actually knows a boxer with those traits? There are a lot less great trainers then there are great fighters. Or am I just thinking too much?
     
  8. Cruiser1

    Cruiser1 Champion Emeritus Full Member

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    I can't rally explain why but I have a feeling that Lamon Brewster would make a good trainer. I think a lot of what makes a good trainer is temperament and Lamon seems like a guy who could really be patient with a fighter. His style is that of a plodder who looks to wear down his opponents but I can see him recognizing the fundamental flaws in that style and acknowledging that what may work for him may not necessarily work for others. With that being the case, he'd help his fighters employ fightplans that would capitalize on their strengths and put them in position to compete if not win.

    Bernard Hopkins would probably make a good trainer but at the same time, I can see his ego getting in the way of a successful fighter/trainer relationship in the sense that he'd get frustrated with a guy who, for whatever reason, can't do what he is asking. Afterall, Hopkins is so good that it might be difficult for him to accept the fact that most fighters are not only incapable of doing the things he himself does but also incapable of disciplining themselves the way he does.
     
  9. No10Point

    No10Point Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Im with Boom_Boom
    Hopkins seems like the worst.
    I pick James Toney.
    Can we call him a free trainer as that seems to be what he has been doing lately.

    Also Alan Green.
    He is well versed in history etc. You just have to make sure he shows up...
     
  10. cangryman

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  11. sues2nd

    sues2nd Fading into Bolivian... Full Member

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    Hopkins would be a better trainer than he was a fighter IMO. And that is saying ALOT!
     
  12. tony mush

    tony mush Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    i think tyson would b a brilliant one
     
  13. tony mush

    tony mush Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  14. Boom_Boom

    Boom_Boom R.I.P Boxing 6/9/12 Full Member

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    Anyone mention Ulises Solis?

    He trained his brother for the Pac fight and I thought he was doing a very fine job, saying all the right things along with words of motivation at the same time.
     
  15. AndrewFFC

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    Ricky Hatton

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