Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
The role of the trainer in boxing today is, really, secondary. In the old days, the trainer taught the fighter to fight, developed and taught the game plan for the fight, conditioned the fighter, made sure he made weight, took care of his mental issues, made sure his ex-wife didn't get in the way, and got tickets to the fight for extended family members.
Now, you have cardio coaches and strength training coaches and sports psychologists and so on and so on. What you end up with is guys that can't fight, need advice between rounds, and don't have anybody to give it to them. When you have 300 people telling you what to do in the run-up to a fight, why not in the corner, too?
That’s a very salient point right their. There is really only a hand full of good trainers left that are on the big stage. The majority of the great trainers are quite literally in the gyms where all these guys learned their craft. No more Blackburn, Arcel or Dundee. No Clancy, Damato or Eddie Futch. Theirs but a smattering of real trainers at the top level left. Which is not only odd and disturbing but worrisome.