Is is time for Emmanuel Steward to retire?

[Spicoli]

This guy hasn't looked good since Lennox Lewis was in the ring.

He's taken great champions and turned them into chumps and his prospects fall at the first hurdle.

They should put this guy out to pasture, let him concentrate on his HBO work and grow old with dignity like Larry Merchant.

He shouldn't be in boxing anymore, he just doesn't have anything left.......

that AND it seems like his top fighters weren't listening to him during the fight..

think of Jermain Taylor getting yelled at in the corner, and not listening or adjusting.. Wlad Klitschko not KO'ing Ibragimov or even trying when Emmanuel was yelling at him in the corner..

He definitley looks a little sparse.Cintron ignored him All night as well. I can not remember the fight but it was nationally televised about 12 years ago he actually walked out of the corner and went to the dressing room between rounds. Ive never seen that before(?) but he berated the guy in between rounds,urged him to fight harder or he would leave.........and he did leaving the cut man to fill in.That was Insane.On USA tuesday night fights I Believe ??

[:::PSL:::]

Who's gonna take over for the Klitschko bros' trainer?

[Bomp]

Manny's an encyclopedia of boxing, but there certainly does seem to be a communication problem. It's probably like Bilbo said that he spreads his time so thin that when he's actually in the corner the fighter isn't sure to take his word or not since they've primarily been working with other trainers, who perhaps have given slightly conflicting advice.

[Shamrock]

I read about Manny and the great work he did with the no hopers as well as the prospects that walked into his gym in the early days. seems he taught them more than how to splip the jab and counter - I wonder how many lives he 'saved' from the street in those days...

The trainers role during a fight should not I think be underestimated. The right words and instructions at the right time can be invaluable but if the fighter loses respect for him and is not listening then it's time for trainer and fighter to part company. It used to be that the trainer was the 'boss' but more and more now once a fighter 'makes' it they forget what got them there in the first place - Naz and Ingle is a good example.

I think the experience and knowlege that Stewrad has is a gold mineand it would be a shame to see that go out of boxing.

[Macho]

Lets see with what comes Cintron now in the fight with Margarito , trained by Steward.......

[Diane]

Didn't someone start a similar thread about Buddy McGirt?

There's some things about Manny that I don't think, like the fact that he doesn't where any type of a shirt underneath his ring robe/jacket, and I have to look at his old ass chest, anyways, I do think that he has valuable knowledge for the boxers he trains, it's just all a matter of whether his fighters listen to him. How many of you remember his yelling at Taylor during the Spinks fight, and Taylor didn't listen to one damn thing he said. Can't blame Manny for that shit.

[BoxingGorilla]

Good question.

Maybe he should drop some of the dead weight and just train Vlad until the wheels fall off. That's what I would do if I were Manny.

He has a nice gig at HBO and many years of watching good fights ahead of him... free fights... up close... free...