Should Alexander Povetkin continue working with Teddy Atlas?

[The Hammer]

go to 4:09 tyson even admitts himself what he did

The best thing that ever happened to Tyson was Kevin Rooney replacing Teddy Atlas as Cus D'Amato's assistant.

It was after Atlas was fired that Tyson really began to improve.

[Walt Liquor]

i don't like the move, there's some other american trainers that I think wouldbe better for him

[The Hammer]

i don't like the move, there's some other american trainers that I think wouldbe better for him

Any of them would be better than Teddy: Manny Steward, Jeff Mayweather, Freddie Roach, Roger Bloodworth, etc.

[joe strong]

Fighters who are trained by Teddy Atlas have had very little success while with him, regardless of their talent. They generally end up on bad terms with him.

Some like Michael Grant lose their self-confidence. Others like Donny LaLonde realize that Teddy really ins't a very good trainer and let him go.

Povetkin will have only his second fight of 2010 tomorrow, against another low-level clubfighter: Teke Oruh, who actually retired a couple of years ago after this second consecutive loss.

Is Povetkin heading in the wrong direction with Atlas? A couple of years ago, he fought decent opponents like Donald, Byrd and Chambers. Since Atlas has been hired, Povetkin has fought Leo Nolan in 2009, and older inactive clubfighter; Javier Mora, a tomato can; and now, the passive Teke Oruh.

Should Povetkin let Teddy go before it's too late? Will he end up on bad terms with him regretting he ever hired him, the same way Briggs, Grant, LaLonde and the others did?

you said before that you only started watching boxing in 2000 so your opinions on grant & briggs are wrong since i have followed both their careers since the begining.i have all their fights,all their interviews & am very familiar with the atlas training grant,briggs ,& michael moorer situations.you are not.i don't know about donny lalonde but i dont care either but if you actually had every interview & fight of those 3 fighters you will see ATLAS was not the problem....he just doesnt like the klitschkos style & he was around training moorer & briggs right around the vitali/byrd fight,wlad vs puritty fight,etc....those fights all happened before you started watching the klitschkos fight.i respect your opinion but just like i dont like the klits,you dont like teddy atlas....but he did NOT ruin briggs,moorer or grants careers...they ruined their own....briggs gives teddy atlas all sorts of praise these days for trying to make him abetter fighter but briggs was too busy rapping,making movies & living the good life to actually train hard & grant did not put in full effort either & many fights leading up to the guinn fight atlas was on him to work harder & grant chose not too.moorer couldnt even get into shape to fight holyfield....all 3 just lived the good life & thought they could get by on athletisism alone & atlas knew otherwise....i think it is too early to judge atlas/povetkin...you have to take a wait & see approach.

[The Hammer]

you said before that you only started watching boxing in 2000 so your opinions on grant & briggs are wrong since i have followed both their careers since the begining.

The first fight of Grant with Atlas as his trainer was in 2001 when Atlas failed to warm him up, and Grant went down from the first punch.

If you have a video of that one, listen to George Foreman's comments about what happened.

No good trainer would make a mistake like that.