How good of a trainer is Teddy Atlas?

[ShoulderRoll]

In my opinion, Teddy was more of a coach. He was never a good trainer in teaching a fighter the mechanics, techniques and the basic fundamentals of boxing.

He never developed any champions from the scratch. However, like Angelo Dundee; He was a good corner man and chief second who gave excellent motivational speeches to his fighters between rounds.

That's the knock against him, he never developed any notable fighters from scratch as far as I can tell.

Kevin Rooney at least produced Omar Sheika.

[EDDIE SPERM]

When's the last time he's been relevant? Like Nacho Beristain is more relevant & he was last relevant during Marquez KO-ing Pacquiao !

[Dip_Slide]

What fighters did he work with in the 80s and 90s? Let's get a list going.

The people I know:

Wilfred Benitez
Joey Gamache
Mike Tyson
Shannon Briggs
Simon Brown
Michael Moorer
Barry Mcguigan
Tracy Patterson
Michael Grant

and later he worked with
Alexander Povetkin
Timothy Bradley

and currently Oleksandr Gvozdyk.

Of course he didn't work with all these fighters their entire careers, but these caliber of fighters don't go to trainers if they don't see how he could help them.

[pasawayako]

One of the most overrated trainer and pathetic analyst/commentator..

[YGriffith]

As good as the fighters he produced.

[ddeg10]

Teddy is too concerned with himself. So much so that it distracts (and even upsets) his fighters. Michael Moorer went toe to toe with Foreman because he was trying to show that he didn't need Teddy as Teddy was getting all the positive praise. Look where that got him.