Teddy Atlas is among the renowned American boxing trainers and fight commentators. He won the 135-pound Golden Gloves title but due to his back injury, he had to quit fighting and start working as a trainer.
He had some amateur fights but had to quit fighting because of his back injury and start working as a coach.
He trained some huge names in boxing. Teddy Atlas trained Michael Moorer and avail his biggest success as a head trainer.
Michael Moore achieved the World heavyweight title in 1994. Because of his extra dramatic speeches, especially during Moorer’s heavyweight title, Teddy Atlas faced a lot of criticism.
Teddy Atlas became the trainer of a Russian boxer named Alexander Povetkin in 2009 when Povetkin was bound to fight the Russian beast, Wladimir Klitschko. Alexander Povetkin retained the services of trainer Teddy Atlas for some time.
Recently Povetkin was ranked as the world’s fourth active heavyweight boxer.
In 2000 when he was 21 he won his first major boxing tournament. He owned WBC interim heavyweight title and WBA heavyweight title.
He also won a lot of gold medals. Now Teddy Atlas is a commentator aligned with ESPN. ESPN is an American cable sports channel.
Atlas has gone after some famous people like Jeff Horn, who is an Australian professional boxer. At the 2012 Olympics, Jeff Horn represented Australia as an amateur, where they reached quarterfinals of light-welterweight.
Jeff Horn is the world’s tenth best active middleweight. Speaking to Joe Rogan, Teddy has drawn the highlight back to himself with comments that Tyson was never a good fighter.
This comment proved that the long feud between Tyson and Atlas is still ongoing. Tyson was known for his violent and intimidating boxing.
He is the hardest hitter in the heavyweight history that’s why he’s the most ferocious fighter. Atlas was a trainer of Mike Tyson.
Early in his career Atlas had a fight with teenager Tyson after hearing that Tyson had
inappropriately advanced Teddy’s relative, who was just 11 years old female. Atlas scared Tyson by putting a gun on his ear. He advised him to stay away from his family.
And the recent comment by Atlas shows that the grudge between the two is not ending any time soon. According to Teddy Atlas, you can’t become a fighter without a heart.
He spent a lot of time teaching and training Tyson. He said that Tyson had power but he never really faced a challenge that tested his heart.
Teddy said that during the upbringing of Tyson there were certain things that affected Tyson’s career.
He said that Tyson was bullied in his childhood and he had to hide from his bullies to save himself. And this left an impact on Tyson for the rest of his life as he remained hiding from potential fighters who could bully him and win from him.
He said that Tyson never really faced an opponent who was not intimidated by him and that whenever he has to face someone who was not afraid of him, Tyson ended up losing the match.
He said Tyson never got tested because of his talent and physical ability. He is talented and strong at the same time. The matches he won, whatever the record was, there was no resistance. There were five matches that were real fights and he lost all of those five matches.
To be a real fighter there must be something inside you and you have to believe it. You must have trust and believe in yourself. He said you can’t lie about a few things and when the moment came and you didn’t intimidate your opponent then that is when it really matter how big your heart is and how much can you take and keep going forward.