Adam Booth - thoughts?

[JazMerkin]

He boxed for the Lynn (club in Camberwell) as an amateur & I've heard was decent. Didn't go pro because of some injury or other. He met Haye when he took a pro from Croydon (don't know the guy's name) down to spar at Fitzroy Lodge & spotted something special in a 16 year old Haye. Shortly after he stopped training the other guy & asked to take on an assistant trainer role at the Lodge under the pretext that he wanted to gain more experience training amateur fighters more extensively before the pros, however once there he devoted his attention almost exclusively to Haye when he could & most think he took the job so that he could groom him for the pros. Have to give him credit, he's a good tactician.

Chris Okoh the former commonwealth champion (I had to look that up as I couldn't remember either).

Ah, that'll be it, although admittedly I'm going off what I've been told by other people as I was only 9 at the time. I have to say that I believe that he lucked into Haye by indulging his ego & bad habits. From just the stuff I know about David Haye, he might end up being the lineal HW champ of the world & still not fulfilling anywhere near the potential his natural gifts offered him. My opinion is that Booth is a very good trainer, but it is Groves who will be the litmus test for me.