Teddy Atlas

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Career

Atlas began as an amateur boxer with Hall of Fame coach Cus D'Amato. He had several amateur fights and captured a 135-pound Golden Gloves title, but had to return to work as a trainer due to a back injury. Atlas was an assistant to D'Amato, but his time with the Catskill Boxing Club was short-lived. He coached the Sweden Olympic Boxing Team for the 1980 Summer Olympics in 1980. Mike Tyson, the son of D'Amato's teen protégé, was responsible for his care. Atlas's father left the camp in 1982 after Tyson's sexually offensive with an 11-year-old female relative of Atlas' (Tyson said he grabbed the girl's buttocks). Atlas told Tyson's ear that he would never again touch his family, or that he would kill him if he did. Atlas was forced to leave the Catskill Boxing Club early because he was told he was no longer accepted in D'Amato's house or around any of his adopted children (his fighters were legally adopted, Tyson included).

Atlas, who coached Michael Moorer, who came to the world heavyweight championship in 1994, had his best success as head trainer. He reacted angrily to his overwrought speeches in the ring corner, particularly during Moorer's heavyweight championship battle with Evander Holyfield, and others believed he did this to draw attention to himself rather than to assist his fighter. Atlas barred Moorer from sitting on his stool and asked, "Do you want me to take over?" he said. Atlas has denied this, saying he did what he felt the fighter needed based on his knowledge of the combat. Moorer went on to defeat Holyfield by a majority decision, with Moorer's boss John Davimos lauding Atlas' motivation, adding, "I don't know if Michael could have done this without Teddy Atlas."

In addition, Atlas worked the corners of featherweight world champion Barry McGuigan's fight and light heavyweight Donny Lalonde. Lalonde, a top-ranked boxer, and with Atlas as his mentor, but temperament and style clashed, as his coach. "I ran stuff like an army camp," Lalonde said. "I'm more of a free spirit." It was also a waste of time in his career, according to Lalonde. He and Atlas parted ways, and Lalonde recruited Tommy Gallagher as his new trainer. Atlas said he was so angry at being shot by Lalonde that he went to Lalonde's house with a rifle aimed at killing him. However, Lalonde denied Atlas' claim, claiming that he did not even live in the apartment Atlas described at the time. Atlas was also listed as "the least important of all my coaches throughout my career," Lalonde said.

Atlas began training Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin as Povetkin was preparing for an eventual title match against Wladimir Klitschko in 2009. Povetkin was a former world amateur champion and was the top contender. Povetkin "wasn't ready" for Klitschko, according to Atlas.

Atlas returned to training in 2015 to prepare Timothy Bradley for his welterweight championship defense against Brandon Rios. Bradley defeated Rios in the ninth round of their fight, which took place in Las Vegas on November 7, 2015, with Atlas in his corner.

Atlas decided to prepare Oleksandr Gvozdyk for the upcoming fight against Adonis Stevenson on December 1, 2018 in Montreal for WBC and lineal light heavyweight titles.

Wilfred Bentez was the best overall of the boxers he had trained in 2019, and he said he was the best overall of the boxers he had trained.

Atlas served as a commentator for ESPN, previously for ESPN2's Friday Night Fights and Wednesday Night Fights, as well as ESPN's Premier Boxing Champions matches. After confronting the network's boxing program director, Doug Loughrey, Atlas was suspended by ESPN twice, once for assaulting a crew member and once for a week. Atlas accused Loughrey of promoting favoritism to certain promoters and matchmakers, who were exploiting their ESPN links by obtaining fighters from other promoters and matchmakers with promises of future ESPN dates. After 21 years of ringside commentating following Atlas's condemnation of the judging in the Manny Pacquiao–Jeff Horn contest, he was barred from ESPN's live fight coverage in December 2017. He is on a long-term deal and continues to do boxing research for ESPN.

Atlas received the Sam Taub Award in 2001 for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism. Atlas served as a boxing commentator for NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012), Rio de Janeiro (2016).

Atlas appeared on Ferdie Pacheco's The 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing DVD. In the first Ali-Liston match, he said he would not have cut Ali's gloves off and instead have sent him out with the instruction to only "run."

Atlas is also featured on the in-game commentary team on Fight Night Round 4 and Fight Night Champion, as well as Joe Tessitore.

In 1989, he was part of the cast and crew of the film Triumph of the Spirit, which tells the tale of Salamo Arouch Jewish Greek boxer who survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of German Nazi soldiers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Atlas played Klaus Silber, the film's leading antagonist. He was also a William Dafoe boxing consultant.

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