Nabaté Isles & Teddy Atlas , Whe're They At podcast

Episode XX (Part 2): Boxing Hall of Famer Teddy Atlas

18 May 2020 • 65 min • EN
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The 20th edition (Part 2 of 2) of Whe're They At features trainer of nearly 20 boxing world champions, ESPN boxing analyst, Boxing Hall of Famer & humanatarian, Teddy Atlas. Teddy was an apprentice of the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Throughout his career, he trained world champions like Mike Tyson (as an amateur), Wilfred Benitez, Michael Moorer, Simon Brown, Tim Bradley and recently Oleksandr Gvodnyk, to name a few. He is a boxing analyst for ESPN and made ESPN's Friday Night Fights must watch television as well as color commentating 4 Olympic Boxing tournaments for NBC. He currently hosts an insightful podcast called The Fight with Teddy Atlas. Teddy released his autobiography, Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man in 2006, as the audiobook is now available as well. He founded the Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation (www.dratlasfoundation.com), which provides financial and emotional support to individuals and organizations in need, and focusing particularly on the needs of children. Teddy was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019. Host Nabaté Isles had the honor to speak with Teddy on a cornucopia of topics including:                       01:04-Should Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fight to unified the Heavyweight title before the end of the 2020 calendar year?                            07:34-Does Joshua present a major challenge for Fury?                             13:25-Does Aleksandr Usyk have a chance to excel in the Heavyweight division despite lacking the size of most fighters in the division?                          17:13-Teddy reflects on the stacked Welterweight and Light Heavyweight divisions in the 1980s.                       19:18-Will Errol Spence, Jr. be able to make a comeback after his car accident?                                  21:33-Teddy's shares a candid take on a possible boxing showdown between Oscar De La Hoya and Conor McGregor.                           25:06-On his son, Teddy III's success as Assistant Director of Scouting for the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.                     27:12-Can the Raiders make the playoffs in 2020 with their roster improvement?                        30:56-Provides an update on his Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation.                                39:55-Names current fighters he's impressed with.                          54:15-Is the rising star Teofimo Lopez ready for top Pound-for-Pound fighter, Vasyl Lomachenko?                       59:12-Does Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez have a claim for #1 Pound-for-Pound fighter in the World?                      Follow Whe're They At on www.twitter.com/whe_retheyat, www.instagram.com/whe.retheyat and www.facebook.com/whe.retheyatpodcast/ !                   Musical selections are from Nabaté Isles' album, 'Eclectic Excursions', available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon, Tidal, etc. Check out his website as well: www.nabateisles.com             

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