Don Turner
Don Turner is an American boxing coach who has trained more than 20 heavyweight boxing champions.
Life
In the 1960s, Turner made his way as a professional boxer, taxi driver and petty criminal in Harlem . Later he started a career as a boxing trainer, during which he became one of the "best boxing trainers in the world". He formed more than 20 world champions, including heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield and Larry Holmes . In 1996 he was voted "Boxing Coach of the Year" because Holyfield won over Mike Tyson as his coach .
Turner lives in the town of Arapahoe , North Carolina , where he runs his own boxing studio.
In an interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, he criticized the current heavyweight boxing, both the coaches and the athletes.
literature
- Arne Leyenberg: "Lazy, discouraged, unreliable": Coach legend Don Turner on the decline of heavyweight boxing , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, December 4, 2011, page 24
Individual evidence
- ↑ see FAS article
- ↑ for example: "Do you know when a heavyweight shows up on time? Only for dinner" and "(...) But most coaches are only interested in the money and not in the boxers"
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SURNAME | Turner, Don |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American boxing trainer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |