By Gerardo Granados: Boxing is the most popular contact sport in the world, you have boxing fights all over the globe, weekend after weekend you will be able to watch a professional boxing fights at any continent, country or major city, amateur tournaments are displayed at jails, sports clubs, universities and gyms; no matter if you speak a different language you will understand what happens inside a ring when two fighters engage. But who trains these warriors? Is the trainer really prepared to teach and to exploit all the skills of his pupils?

No disrespect to any trainer around the world, most of them were professional boxers, others were amateur fighters and know their business very well, but not everybody has the ability to teach correctly and to be able to polish a raw gem.

I have recently read two articles that speak about the negatives in boxing and his follow up response. Both are very interesting articles and both made me wonder why beside the greedy promoters boxing is loosing audience against other contact sports such as MMA and UFC. Would it be possible that the old trainers didn’t prepare their successors properly or that the new trainers aren’t able to detect good prospects and train them properly?

Not all boxing stars are born in a famous boxing gym; most learn the boxing basics from a relative, a friend or at local gym. Most of boxers learn since they are just kids and if the trainers don’t teach them right a talent might be wasted.

A lot of factors are involved so that a young talented boxer can achieve stardom, but is it to blame the trainers for the lack of current talent in the heavyweight division? At any weight division you can find fighters that are quite raw, that their boxing skills can be improved by a “good trainer”. Freddy Roach, Emanuel Steward and Ignacio Beristain are considered as great trainers, and there are only a few fighters that would not like to be trained by any of them. But, what about the local trainers? Are they as savvy as these ones or are they just good enough for a local amateurish level?

Could it be possible for the major boxing governing bodies to help the local trainers to improve their teaching skills on benefit of the sport? I hope they do.