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Cus D'Amato
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Boxing. D'Amato built the peek-a-boo style, high hands and constant head movement, and took Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight title in 1956 and José Torres to the light heavyweight title in 1965. He then raised the teenage Mike Tyson in his Catskill home, dying in 1985 a year before Tyson became champion with that same style.
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Eddie Futch
Born
Boxing. Futch worked with Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks, Alexis Argüello and Riddick Bowe, an extraordinary spread of styles. His particular skill was the game plan: Frazier's left hooks against Ali in 1971 and Norton's jaw-breaking win in 1973 were both built on his study of Ali's habits.
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Angelo Dundee
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Boxing. Dundee was in Muhammad Ali's corner for almost his whole career, then guided Sugar Ray Leonard and was there when George Foreman regained the heavyweight title at 45 in 1994. His gift was corner work: the short, calm instruction between rounds that changed a fight, most famously in Leonard's comeback against Thomas Hearns in 1981.
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Emanuel Steward
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Boxing. From Detroit's Kronk Gym, Steward developed Thomas Hearns and Milton McCrory, then late in his career rebuilt Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko into dominant heavyweight champions. His emphasis on the jab and on aggression from range is visible in every one of them, and his commentary for HBO made those methods familiar to a wide audience.
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Freddie Roach
Boxing. Roach's Wild Card gym in Los Angeles produced Manny Pacquiao's multi-weight run and title wins for James Toney, Amir Khan and Miguel Cotto, and he was named trainer of the year by US boxing writers seven times. The pad work he developed with Pacquiao, rhythmic and combination-heavy, became a template copied in gyms everywhere.
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Ignacio Beristáin
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Boxing. Beristáin trained both Márquez brothers, Juan Manuel and Rafael, as well as Daniel Zaragoza and Humberto González, all world champions. His fighters are known for counter-punching and patience rather than the stereotypical Mexican brawl, and Juan Manuel's 2012 knockout of Pacquiao is the clearest example of that teaching.
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Alcides Sagarra Carón
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Amateur boxing. As head coach of Cuba's national team from the 1960s to 2001, Sagarra oversaw dozens of Olympic champions, among them heavyweights Teófilo Stevenson and Félix Savón, three Olympic golds apiece. His system of centralised schools and long amateur careers is the main reason Cuban boxing dominated the Olympics for three decades.
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Brendan Ingle
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Boxing. In a converted church hall in Wincobank, Sheffield, the Irish-born Ingle developed Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson and Junior Witter into world champions. His fighters learned to box from unorthodox angles with low hands and constant switching, and Hamed's career is the most extreme version of that method.
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Robert McCracken
Boxing. The Birmingham-born former fighter trained Carl Froch through his professional world title career while also running GB Boxing's Olympic programme, which produced London 2012 champions Anthony Joshua, Luke Campbell and Nicola Adams. He later trained Joshua as a professional, so his influence runs through both sides of British boxing.
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Abel Sanchez
Boxing. Sanchez trained Terry Norris to the light middleweight title in the early 1990s and, two decades later, guided Gennady Golovkin's long middleweight reign from his Big Bear mountain camp. Golovkin's measured pressure, cutting off the ring with feints and the jab, was the signature of their years together.
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Robert Garcia (American boxer)
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Boxing. A former world champion himself, Garcia has trained his brother Mikey Garcia to titles in four weight classes, plus Nonito Donaire and Brandon Ríos. His Oxnard and Riverside gyms are known for building fighters who stay compact and punch accurately in exchanges.
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Derrick James
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Boxing. The Dallas trainer took Errol Spence Jr. to unified welterweight titles and Jermell Charlo to undisputed status at super welterweight, before a public split and legal dispute with Spence. Both fighters favoured body work and patient pressure, a clear thread from James's own career as a professional.
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Dan Gable
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Wrestling. After his own Olympic gold, Gable coached Iowa to 15 NCAA team titles in 21 seasons and led US Olympic freestyle teams, with athletes such as Tom Brands going on to Olympic gold. His programme was built on conditioning and relentless pace, and it still defines American college wrestling culture.
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Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov
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Wrestling and MMA. The Dagestani coach raised his son Khabib and Islam Makhachev from childhood, both later UFC lightweight champions. His sambo and freestyle base, chain wrestling against the fence until the opponent breaks, is the clearest coaching fingerprint in modern MMA. He died in 2020.
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Javier Mendez (mixed martial arts trainer)
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MMA. As head coach of the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Mendez has cornered Cain Velasquez, Daniel Cormier, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev to UFC titles. AKA's hard sparring culture is controversial, but the run of heavyweight and lightweight champions it produced is not.
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Greg Jackson (MMA trainer)
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MMA. Working alongside striking coach Mike Winkeljohn in Albuquerque, Jackson built game plans for Georges St-Pierre, Jon Jones, Rashad Evans and Holly Holm. His reputation is for strategy: Holm's knockout of Ronda Rousey in 2015 is the textbook case of a plan executed exactly.
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Eugene Bareman
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MMA. The head coach of City Kickboxing in Auckland cornered Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski during their UFC title reigns, alongside a wider team of specialists. Bareman's fighters are known for striking discipline and calm, and his frank between-round advice became a minor online genre of its own.
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Cor Hemmers
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Kickboxing. Hemmers trained Ramon Dekkers through his Muay Thai career and, at the Golden Glory team, guided Semmy Schilt's K-1 Grand Prix wins and Alistair Overeem's 2010 K-1 title. His fighters fought with the Dutch emphasis on combinations finished with low kicks.
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