Teddy Atlas

[Julius Rain]

What do you guys really think of this guy?

Does he really deserve phrases such as a "great trainer"?

How many champions has he produce?

How much does he really know about boxing?

What do you guys think of the Moore Holyfield fight?

[MMASUX]

I personally don't think he is a "great" trainer, but a descent one. As long as he's been around, and the fighters he's been around i would hope he knows a lot about boxing. As for his work on FNF, i absolutely hate it. I recorded last weeks FNF and watched it this morning and he compared boxing to kickoffs in football, and i think cooking also, where does he come up with this stuff??

[ono]

I wish he was my bookmaker. Quality pre fight predictions

[The Fightfan]

I think he is a top trainer. He knows exactly what he is telling his fighter and never really given bad advice on his keys to victory on FNF. I think what separates him from being the top guy and good trainer is he does not seem to take fighter's in their primes anymore as he did when Tyson fell into his lap. Everyone thinks it was Rooney and Cus D'amato who made Tyson the monster he was but in actuality it was Atlas who was doing the training and Rooney the fighting. He seems to get middle of the road fighter's Moorer,Briggs. Now he does have Povetkin an undefeated heavyweight and I will be very interested to see what he has taught him.

[Mar]

...i agree with above. He's a decent trainer. He can only prepare the guys and give them the best advice he can. I've never heard him give bad advice. I've only seen fighters ignore it.

[JonnyFolds]

He predicted Hatton would stop Pacquiao
He predicted Tony Thompson would stop Wlad Klitschko.
I think he had Shane beating Mayweather too.

Sadly, I was with him on all but Thompson Klitschko.

I think he is a great trainer. But he really doesn't have the political correctness and kiss ass attitude to be a top trainer today. He talks too damn much, adn he repeats himself a lot. I guess when you wor with heavyweights you have to do that to get through that thick skull.

[Master]

I like him, everyone makes wrong call now and then but he knows his boxing and very entertaining.

[Nameless]

I think he's a great trainer but just like Tyson, he's on the nutso side...

[El Kabong]

I think Atlas has some quality to him but like Bert Sugar he's become a caricature of himself. He's the eccentric trainer that compares boxing to everything. I think he's a good trainer, not great he got Michael Moorer to reach his potential. He (or Grant's management) rushed Michael Grant

Has Teddy ever trained anyone in weight classes other than heavyweight? I can't think of anyone he's trained other than heavyweights.

[ElTerribleMorales]

he's a good trainer but talks too much shit, as for only training HW's that's not true, he also trained Donny Lalonde (light heavyweight), and talks about how he was actually was going to try and kill him for firing him (it's in Teddy's book Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man) , he also worked the corner of McGuigan

[holmcall]

For a guy whose dad was a Doctor, he makes it sem like he grew up in the gutter. Give me abreak here. He may well have been a spoiled little pratt when he was young. Staten Island is not exactly Bed-Sty or Newark. Also, that crap in his book about Sammy the Bull was bile-inducing garbage.

Could be he is a tough guy wannabe. But I do think he knows boxing and can break down a fight very well.

[CFH]

He's one of my favorite personalities in all of boxing.

He's a very good trainer, but I'd stop short of calling him elite; he's not Freddy Roach of anything.

He's a great commentator, if an eccentric one, and I love that he always speaks his mind (even when he's way off base). He definitely knows his boxing, even if he does get a lot of predictions wrong.

[Spicoli]

Solid trainer.He was brilliant with Moorer though theatrical.On the mic he does have a raw underlying wit and great insight but comes across as the neighborhood kid stuffed into an undersized pressed suit.He should write his metaphores down so he does not repeat them as often.His exchanges with Kellerman years ago were histarical tv.

[amat]

For a guy whose dad was a Doctor, he makes it sem like he grew up in the gutter. Give me abreak here. He may well have been a spoiled little pratt when he was young. Staten Island is not exactly Bed-Sty or Newark. Also, that crap in his book about Sammy the Bull was bile-inducing garbage.

Could be he is a tough guy wannabe. But I do think he knows boxing and can break down a fight very well.

WTF! What would you know? It doesn't matter where you're from, if you rebel against that and you hang out in the gutter then you are in the gutter. He has 2 felonies on his record, his brother killed his grandmother in his own house, he has a GIANT scar on his face from being stabbed with a broken fucking bottle, I'd say he has gone through his fair share of shit.

Teddy isn't a fulltime trainer but he knows boxing really well and I really like him and there's a reason people hwo actually come across him in boxing always respect him. There is a method to his madness and he definitely knows what he is talking about.

[Violent Demise]

It's pretty obvious from just hearing Teddy Atlas talk he knows his boxing.