Because of his speed -- and his lack of power -- Futch, who was outweighed by 70 pounds, had also become Louis's favorite sparring partner.
Eddie Futch was born at Hillsboro, Mississippi, on August 9 1911 and took up boxing as a boy. He worked on mind as well as body, and if a fighter wanted Futch as his trainer, the fighter had to listen. Ali also finished on the brink of collapse. It is there that he excelled in athletics, including basketball and boxing.
''Joe used to tell me, 'If I can hit you, Eddie, I can hit anybody,' '' he said. Eddie Futch was born in Mississippi and grew up in Detroit, where he was a star semipro basketball player before he gravitated to boxing. 61 Related Articles [filter] Ken Norton.
Renowned through successive generations as a sage, he had a thoughtful demeanour and remarkable knowledge which earned him a reputation as "The dean of boxing" - and one who could boast an outstanding stable of champions.In addition to training five world heavyweight title-holders - Frazier, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick, Michael Spinks and Riddick Bowe - Futch also handled the light-heavyweights Bob Foster and Montell Griffin, the light-middleweight Mike McCallum, the lightweight Alexis Arguello and the welterweight Marlon Starling.
In a mendacious sport where few emerge with reputations untarnished, Futch was an exception.
"Futch's association with Frazier - whose rivalry with Ali passed into legend - earned him a permanent place in boxing history.
He became well known when he began to tour the United States as a boxing promoter and coach of…
It saw Frazier outpoint Ali after flooring him with a savage left hook in the 15th and final round. According to our Database, has no children.Eddie Futch's estimated net worth & salary for 2020 have yet to be determined. I'm not a timekeeper. All net worths are fact-checked and confirmed by our users. "I'm not a timekeeper," he protested.
Frazier knocked down Ali with a classic left hook, and Norton was able to pepper Ali with left jabs.This giant-slayer ability of Futch's fighters continued into the 90's. Eddie Futch have position among the list of 321 famous Boxing. Futch reconsidered the wisdom of acting as Louis's rabbit.During World War II, he worked as a welder at the Ford Motor Company and also hooked up with his first pro contender, Lester Felton, a welterweight.After training lesser known fighters in Los Angeles, Futch did not achieve his first championship until 1958, when Don Jordan won the welterweight title from Virgil Atkins, typically, after Futch had schooled him on the importance of the left jab.Also typically, as Futch later told it, after winning the title, Jordan thought he was beyond such mundane advice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Eddie Futch is one of the Richest Boxing, who was born in United States.
Eddie Futch, who finally retired from boxing in 1998 at age 87, is not only one of the greatest trainers in boxing, but one of the sport's true gentlemen. Their first fight, at New York's Madison Square Garden on March 8 1971 was dubbed "The Fight Of the Century". ''I had to devise ways and means of not getting killed,'' he said. A Golden Gloves lightweight champion, he never fought as a professional; he did, however, spar with future world heavyweight champion Joe Louis when both were amateurs in the same gym in the early 1930s.It was the beginning of a long apprenticeship. Futch did it well enough to provide Louis with an elusive target. When Starling turned testily on Futch during one gym session, the trainer is said to have replied: "Marlon, I've taught you all you know, but I haven't taught you all I know.
Futch took on the erratic Riddick Bowe after extracting a promise that Bowe would train hard and listen to him.