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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #30 Kenny Adams

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Coach Kenny Adams has reportedly worked with 26 world champions, 34 Olympians and 56 fighters who went on to achieve a world crown.

Adams is also a Vietnam veteran, and as part of the US Olympic set up in 1984 and 1988, he coached the likes of Evander Holyfield, Meldrick Taylor, Pernell Whitaker, Virgill Hill, Roy Jones, Ray Mercer and Michael Carbajal.

In the pro ranks, he declined the opportunity to work with Floyd Mayweather but did train the likes of Diego Corrales, Edwin Valero, Vince Phillips, Kennedy McKinney, Samuel Peter, Johnny Tapia, Michael Nunn and may more.

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All of those kids were...

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They weren't real big punches before, but they became that because of explosiveness.

0:27.0

And that's what it is, turning on them.

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And once again, you have to rotate about all of the foot and get that explosive...

0:36.0

...explosiveness going and turn the body.

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And that's where it's at.

0:42.0

They were above the rest, and you can see that.

0:48.0

You can see the difference in people sometimes.

0:51.0

And you knew that to these guys, plus they went to the next level.

0:56.0

And they were not goofballs.

0:59.0

They were guys that got in there and worked hard, and drove themselves to be the best.

1:06.0

And I think that's what it's all about.

1:09.0

That's the difference between them wearing an illusion, you know.

1:14.0

And because I was known as a disciplinary, and I was.

1:17.0

But I learned that from a guy named Pat Nappy, Pennsylvania.

1:22.0

Pat Nappy was a strong, strong, disciplinarian.

1:26.0

And that's where I learned it from him, you know.

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