When you hear about guys like Holyfield or Toney fighting way past their prime because they need the paycheck or like Bowe or Matthew Saad Muhammad either having to sell their titles for money at flea markets or being down and out homeless, don't you just think that there are better options out there? I mean, who wouldn't wanna be trained by any of the aforementioned names? Is there some sort of shame about it or something?
There are not that many legit boxing gyms left in the US, most are not hiring. It is also very hard to become a successful trainer and having a good boxing career doesn't mean you can teach the sport. You have to be at the gym every day training 99.9% kids with no hope or talent for very little pay.
They are going to make as much money training a nobody than what they are used to making? Da **** outta here.
Most fighters would be very poor coaches, coaches need to understand a lot more than their fighter, the fighter just follows. You often see coaches with no fighting experience make the best coaches, they are two different jobs. When you are good at something and you can do it without thinking it can be hard to watch someone else unable to do it, you actually have to develop and teach what comes natural to you.
Good point. I suppose training would be different since you'd need a different mindset. I was actually thinking being trainers to established fighters a la Livingstone Bramble. But you also make a good point about the boxing gyms. Sad that Frazier had to close his down before he passed. No, but what ever they would make beats being homeless or selling **** at a flea market wouldn't it?
