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By Thomas Gerbasi - Don House likes to work. If the Las Vegas-based trainer is in your corner, you’re going to work too. Hard. That doesn’t always sit well with prizefighters, especially those in the heavyweight division, so when he saw Haiti’s Bermane Stiverne in the gym over eight years ago, he didn’t bat an eye. Heavyweights were too much trouble.
“I was watching (Joan) Guzman sparring with Kid Diamond,” recalled House. “Bermane was in the gym for about a week, but I didn’t pay no attention to him.”
Then he did.
“I had one of those Fairtex (punching) bags and this thing was about six feet tall, probably four feet in diameter, and must have weighed about 800 pounds,” said House. “I had it on this railing system, and I heard this loud thunder from behind me and I was like ‘what the hell is that?’ (Laughs) It was him hitting the bag. I said ‘do that again.’ He hit it again. I pushed this bag toward him and said ‘keep this bag off of you.’”
House, a trainer who has been around the game long enough to know when he was seeing something special, leveled with Stiverne. [Click Here To Read More]
“I was watching (Joan) Guzman sparring with Kid Diamond,” recalled House. “Bermane was in the gym for about a week, but I didn’t pay no attention to him.”
Then he did.
“I had one of those Fairtex (punching) bags and this thing was about six feet tall, probably four feet in diameter, and must have weighed about 800 pounds,” said House. “I had it on this railing system, and I heard this loud thunder from behind me and I was like ‘what the hell is that?’ (Laughs) It was him hitting the bag. I said ‘do that again.’ He hit it again. I pushed this bag toward him and said ‘keep this bag off of you.’”
House, a trainer who has been around the game long enough to know when he was seeing something special, leveled with Stiverne. [Click Here To Read More]
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