Thread: Best Trainer in the business- Top 3.

Well, who are the best trainers in the business, American or European OR Asian?

#1. Tommy Brooks. His win loss percentage is impeccable. Fighters avoid him because they don't like his strict discipline. But, he's with David Price now- and Price will be best served. I assure you. Brooks is what Price needs!

#.2 Freddie Roach. For a man with such a debilitating disease, with most likely other promoters/trainers trying to poach his best fighters, he remains a premier trainer, mentor and coach.

#3. Nacho Beristain. He WILL be a hall of famer. And he deserves it. He has engineered, from Mexico, setting his guys to fight up in North America and around the world, champions that we will remember for YEARS to come. I thank him for his contribution to this sport.

Honourable mention:
Fritz Zdunek- Vitali Klitschko's trainer.

Nazim Richardson- Top 5 trainers in the USA/North America

Floyd Mayweather Sr.- I think he is a better trainer than his brother, Roger Mayweather.

Roger Mayweather- without question a top 5 trainer in the USA/North American region. If he can make a name for himself outside of Floyd Mayweather Jr.- who's father has much to do with him as he does- he will set himself up to be #1.

Who do you have??

Tough to say who should be on the list but if Freddie Roach is then boxing is in really bad shape. Freddie has never once taught a fighter one thing about defense. How can that type of "teacher" be amongst the best?


I'm sure somebody will reply with all his trainer of the year yada yada yada, those awards are won by fighters and received by trainers.

1. Beristain

2. Roach

3. Goosen

Originally Posted by FinitoElDinamita

1. Beristain

2. Roach

3. Goosen

who does goosen train? i always liked him as a trainer

nacho is the only trainer out there right now that i feel is very good. most of the other top trainers are pretty equal.

Can't argue with the names given thus far really. Sometimes a trainer just clicks with a fighter and can make that particular fighter better. Other times a trainer is just a good trainer who can improve almost anyone.

Freddie Roach is in the top 3. The way he improved Manny Pacquiao & Amir Khan in particular is testiment to his abilities and considering his illness you have to applaud him.

Right now I think Robert Garcia has potential to be a top trainer. The work he's doing with Donaire, Maidana, Mikey & Rios has been pretty decent thus far.

In the UK I think Joe Gallagher is a top trainer. He's helped turn nobodies into something since taking over Billy Graham's gym and just got his first World Champion with Scott Quigg. Considering how little time he's been doing it I'd say he has potential to be considered a top trainer in the future. His winning run that spanned over 40 fights was pretty impressive, especially since Crolla was going in as an underdog early doors.

Im with Ron on this one. A few years back Enzo Calzaghe knew what he was doing but that was built on Joe's success who lets be honest would have been brilliant if he were trained by a blind chimp! Success breeds success and he also had Enzo Mac and Rees as 'World' Champions.

I think you often have to look behind the trainer to see where the real brains of the outfit lies.

Back in the early 00's there was that guy who was working with Corrales/ Cassamayor/ Toney . I don't know his name but hat's the guy I'd want in my corner. I know that much.

Calm and collected.

Originally Posted by Jimanuel Boogustus

Back in the early 00's there was that guy who was working with Corrales/ Cassamayor/ Toney . I don't know his name but hat's the guy I'd want in my corner. I know that much.

Calm and collected.

Joe Goossen?

enzo

Freddy Roach has been "trainer to the stars" for a while, he's a student of the great Eddie Futch as well.

John David Jackson is finding his way as a trainer

Nacho is of course the jewel of Mexico

John Scully has had success

Ronnie Shields still produces good fighters

Tommy Brooks has worked with a ton of great fighters, but I am not sure he's developed many by himself. If I'm not mistaken he did a lot of work with Lou Duva especially with amateur fighters.

Trainer Monkey has to be up there. Even though he didn't have a license and the only fighter he "trained" was his wife, he did train Kid Thunder by email, and most famously devised the gameplan for one of Yusef Mack's wins, through communicating with his trainer on here. Mack's team didn't even have the courtesy to thank him in the post fight interviews yet alone pay him. He was rightly pissed off about that.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Trainer Monkey has to be up there. Even though he didn't have a license and the only fighter he "trained" was his wife, he did train Kid Thunder by email, and most famously devised the gameplan for one of Yusef Mack's wins, through communicating with his trainer on here. Mack's team didn't even have the courtesy to thank him in the post fight interviews yet alone pay him. He was rightly pissed off about that.

Links please!


Also you forgot to mention his wife's stellar record as well.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Trainer Monkey has to be up there. Even though he didn't have a license and the only fighter he "trained" was his wife, he did train Kid Thunder by email, and most famously devised the gameplan for one of Yusef Mack's wins, through communicating with his trainer on here. Mack's team didn't even have the courtesy to thank him in the post fight interviews yet alone pay him. He was rightly pissed off about that.

Haha. I can exclusively reveal a video of Trainer Monkey in action...

Originally Posted by Memphis

Im with Ron on this one. A few years back Enzo Calzaghe knew what he was doing but that was built on Joe's success who lets be honest would have been brilliant if he were trained by a blind chimp! Success breeds success and he also had Enzo Mac and Rees as 'World' Champions.

I think you often have to look behind the trainer to see where the real brains of the outfit lies.

Freddie Roach is the obvious perfect example. Manny goes on a tear and Freddie is trainer of the year, Manny gets put to sleep and Freddie isn't? The implication is Freddie didn't train as well that year, it's nonsense. Emmanuel Stewart became a great trainer when Tommy Hearns walked into his gym, Lennox Lewis goes to him and Manny is great again, then Wlad. The common denominator is great fighters making trainers. Dundee can teach you more from beyond the grave than Freddie Roach will. If a fighter clicks with a trainer he's a great trainer. Their job is to get the best out of the fighter, it's in the job description that the fighter decides "greatness". All the celebrity trainers are overrated. They use that celebrity to pick and choose fighters. If better fighters means better trainers in the eyes of the public, and we know it does, then they have an unfair advantage. The best trainers are amateur trainers. They can't choose the right fighters with the right styles and right temperaments. They get what they get and have to adapt themselves and the fighter. That's far far more impressive. As the pool of boxing participants shrinks the pool of great trainers shrinks, the eras of great trainers is gone. Probably never to return. There are good trainers out there with great fighters and people will make lists based on who had more great fighters.