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Curious to see if anyone knows who trained Floyd Sr. and Roger? If these two built Floyd, who helped get them started?
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All of your questions are in this Blast from the Past thread of 2010:
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I'd like to see more writers ask them about their history and who they learned under and who their trainers themselves learned under. It's a part of American boxing history that is becoming lost.
Floyd Sr did have this to say in an interview from East side Boxing:
"My style ain’t like nobody else, man. Its so many different things I do. I was trained by a real good trainer named Darryl Williams. It’s been so long ago that he’s passed now. I learned so much being trained by him, even though he was an older man then.
I took that and I watched a lot of fights and I learned from those fights. I always practiced things, man. If you keep practicing things you better at what you do. Like I said I’m the kind of guy, man, to keep myself physically fit. I think it’s the healthy thing to do. It helps me with younger the kids, you know. You see, like me I’m faster than the average kid that’s fighting that’s 22, 23 years old. I can keep up because… ha, ha… I keep that thing oiled like it’s supposed to be."Comment
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Well, pretty close. Darryl Williams and Henry Grooms, while Jesse Reid I remember very well. Great trainer.All of your questions are in this Blast from the Past thread of 2010:
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