Don Turner

Don Turner is an American boxing trainer who has trained more than 20 heavyweight boxing champion.

Life

In the 1960s, Turner suggested as a professional boxer, taxi drivers and petty criminal by in Harlem. Later he started a career as a boxing coach, in which he " best boxing coach in the world" became one of the. He formed more than 20 world championships, including the heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield and Larry Holmes. In 1996 he was elected " boxing trainer of the year " because under him won over as coach Holyfield Mike Tyson.

Turner lives in the town of Arapahoe, North Carolina, where he runs his own boxing club.

In an interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he harshly criticizes the current heavyweight boxing, both the coaches and the athletes.