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"

personal data
SURNAME	Turner, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American boxing trainer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] see FAS article

[2] r 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"