One of America’s great boxing trainers and coaches in the sport of professional boxing has died as respects come flooding in for him.
There has been a lot of death recently in boxing.
Tommy Brooks is the latest gone.
Legendary Boxing Trainer Dead At 71
It is understood he passed after a long fight with cancer.
Brooks trained the Klitschko brothers, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson briefly.
He competed as a middleweight as an amateur and had a brief pro boxing career himself, with a record of 7-3.
Rest in peace.
