It's a trick poll, gangsta :boxing:
It's the fighter's responsibility to find the trainer that suits his own style of fighting.
A trainer have opinions and viewpoints on how he want a fighter to be, and if the fighter himself has any intelligence, he should find the trainer that can pull out his strenghts.
It would be silly of me to train with Manny. Cuz D'amato would suit me, as would Kevin Rooney stylewise.
Freddy Roach would be a far better trainer for me than Manny, so my vote goes to him.
Sheeple need to realize that the trainer can only do so much. If there is a bad style match-up between the trainer and fighter, you will have a result like Cintron's last night.
I think Manny is a better trainer. Roach is too relaxed sometimes and just lets the guy do whatever he wants, when he should be giving him directions.
sometimes relaxed is good.
sometimes when you're all pumped up you don't need some guy yelling at you when you're trying to rest.
you want a floyd mayweather sr. cursing at you when you're trying to catch a breather in between tough rounds?
where's buddy mcgirt in this poll? buddy is a solid trainer.
It depends where your going with this. Either on how they are as a trainer or their accomplishments as a trainer. Manny of course has more accomplishments and goes way back. But sometimes as mentioned, he does try changing too much in a fighter and ends up taking away what made the fighter great to begin with. Freddy lets his fighter do what he wants, just improves his game rather than change it. This is a big issue really because you shouldn't change something that ain't broke. While it has worked in some cases for Steward, there has been many it hasn't.
You seriously know nothing about boxing if you pick Roach over Steward.
You seriously know very little about boxing, based on your remark.
Take a look at the poll results.
I'd give the nod to Manny. Anyone who can turn glass jawed lewis into a dominant champion vs some GREAT punchers....oh, and his nearly 30 years making champions helps a bit too :p Roach is no slouch though, it isn't like one is landslide better than another :)
To me they are pretty even. They both are real quick and good at finding a weakness in the opponent during the fight and immediately bring it to their fighter's attention. Whether or not the fighter does something about it is another story. I think overall Freddy is more hardcore when it comes to the gym work moreso then what we see of him in the corner. But eitherway I like both and think they are just about dead even in everything they do.