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In 2005, eight-division World champion Manny Pacquiao requested to train with Adams, but Adams declined to aid to his ill wife at the time. [4] He is the former boxing coach of twenty-six professional World champions, thirty four Olympians and a total of fifty-six boxers who became World Champion.
Roach is widely regarded as one of the best boxing trainers of all time. [4] He is the enduring boxing coach of the eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, five-time and four-division world champion Miguel Cotto, former WBC middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr., three-time world champion James Toney, former UFC middleweight and ...
BoxRec ranks him as the greatest Asian fighter of all time. [40] In 2016, Pacquiao ranked No. 2 on ESPN's list of top pound for pound boxers of the past 25 years [41] and he ranks No.4 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time. [42] As of 2022, Pacquiao was ranked ninth in The Ring's list of the top 100 boxers of ...
Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, during which he participated in 26 championship fights, defeated 21 fighters, [ 119 ] [ 120 ] made 25 defenses and was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months.
Boxing experts Freddie Roach, Stephen Edwards and Sean Gibbons believe Canelo Alvarez is a top-100 fighter of all time. Hall of Famer Teddy Atlas vehemendly disagrees, though. (Hector Vivas/Getty ...
The FIBA Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill, all-time great teams, all-time great coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the sport of basketball. Inductees
Emanuel "Manny" Steward (July 7, 1944 – October 25, 2012) was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing.Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throughout his career, most notably Thomas Hearns, [1] through the famous Kronk Gym and later heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko.
1921–1963, a boxer who held both the NYSAC and NBA (WBA) world titles simultaneously; 1963–1983, a boxer who held both the WBA and WBC world titles simultaneously; 1983–2007, a boxer who held the WBA, WBC, and IBF world titles simultaneously; 2007–present, a boxer who holds the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO world titles simultaneously [1] [2] [3]