Who will train, promote, and write about the next generation of boxers?

Oscar will more than likely monopolise boxing promoting over the coming years, especially when Fat Bob pops his clogs. I don't think that will be such a bad thing to be honest cause i think Oscar is a lot more honest and interested in the progression of the sport than other young promters like those dicks Gary Shaw and Lou DiBella.

As far as who'll be the next generation of great trainers i don't think you could really guess. Look at Roach, he was nothing more than slightly better than a journeyman as a fighter and he's now the best trainer in the world.

 

Great trainers have assistants that they pass their trade down to. Eddie Futch taught Freddie Roach and Thell Torrance. Lou Duva taught Tommy Brooks, Roach is now teaching Moorer etc etc,,, There will be more guys coming up.
As far as promoters, Don King is pretty much done. Guys like Gary Shaw and Lou Dibellla are not good promoters, they dont have the bank accounts to develop fighters correctly, and often put them in over their heads too soon. Arum and Golden Boy have a good lock on the sport with Arum doing an excellent job bringing his fighters along. If I had a fighter I would want Trampler to do his matchmaking, hes the best.

 

Promotors: Golden Boy, DiBella, Hayemaker,

Trainers: Dave Coldwell, Michael Moorer, Bernard Hopkins

Writers: dunno

 

The one thing that really worries me is all your historians and guys that have been there from the the thirties/forties dying off very soon.

It puts a huge smile on my face thinking about an eighty year old man sitting there reading his latest ring magazine and would do anything and has done anything for the sport his entire life.

People nowadays, boxing fans nowadays, on the whole, will never have the passion of these old boys, when it was a sport that gave many many people good livings as journos and so on. Boxings there bread and butter. As much as some would like to think it is nowadays, especially on ESB, we'll never have that connection with the sport.

I, personally, am worried about where its going to be in ten, fifteen years. You'll have all the journo's who actually got, through knowing people and chance, in control and writing about this sport who only started watching it after they seen floyd on wrestlemania.

But hey, i'm drunk right now and pessimism gets the better of me, I hope i'm wrong.

 

Moorer is more then likely going to have his hand in this.

Look at how well Manny performed against Hatton. Is it a coincidence that this was the the converted southpaw Moorer's first time helping Roach and Manny?

 

i think Moorer was good to help Pac iron out his fundamentals

as for Smith i agree to an extent but what about the guys who are 40 and 50 now will they not just take the 80 years olds place