Quote Originally Posted by liquid
Quote Originally Posted by porkypara
Great fighters make there trainers great not the other way around.
Not necessarily. Hasn't Emmanuel Steward made Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko better? If you don't give the trainer the credit, don't give him the blame. It isn't McGirt's fault Antonio Tarver is garbage or that Arturo Gatti's career got extended a few years by discontinuing his brawling. Freddie Roach hasn't turned Manny Pacquiao into a two-handed fighter? Noazim Richardson didn't nail everything on the head about Tarver when Hopkins dismantled him?

DLH just may be at the point where a trainer is just incidental for him. PBF certainly is after his uncle was unable to train him. But to summarily dismiss a trainer makes it seem as if anyone can do it. Certain trainers do make a difference and perhaps if DLH switched to McGirt he wouldn't be able to do the same as he can under Mayweather.

Dont get me wrong,there are some trainers that have made big differences in world title fights such as Teddy Atlas's pep talks to Michell Moorer inbetween rounds and Angelo Dundde forcing the youg Clay out in round 5 of his fight with Liston after he got partly blinded.

So yes having a good trainer is imoprtant but by and large if a boxer has the talent he will make it regardless of the trainer.