"After Beijing, India's attitude changed, " says the country's Cuban-born boxing coach, Blas Fernandez.
To prepare for fights on the ice, Mr. Martin has a boxing coach in Windsor who trains him on the mechanics of throwing and eluding punches.
Smets opens a door to find Keyshawn Johnson (professional football player), Kerry King (lead and rhythm guitarist of Slayer), Freddie Roach (boxing coach and former professional boxer), Mike Lingerfelt (front tire charger and pit crew champion), Mister Cartoon (tattoo and graffiti artist), and Nathan Fletcher (surf champion) at a mysterious round table.
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Roach's cramped Hollywood gym, the Wild Card, is now a boxing mecca, and the trainer enjoys the trappings of success a slick Mercedes in the garage, the ability to pamper his mother and a flattering appointment as a U.S. Olympic boxing team coach.
Tommy Chaney, Gavin's amateur coach at the Hall Green boxing club in Birmingham, said Gavin's predicament should not be allowed to affect the rest of the British team.
As Al Mitchell, former head coach of the USA Olympic boxing team and one of America's most respected amateur trainers, told me, "there are so many ways to get rich in the United States now, even for black people".
As a diminutive 12-year-old, a young Zou Shiming began studying martial arts, but after much pestering he convinced his parents and a local coach to let him take up boxing instead.
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The presidential debates have elicited abundant boxing metaphors, which as a former boxer and coach can always be entertaining.
May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
"When you see an MMA (card) or boxing, they save the biggest bouts for last, " Penn State coach Cael Sanderson said.
Responsibility for coach Terry Edwards' successful team will now pass to the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA), which is chaired by Derek Mapp.
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