Throughout history there have been many great champions in the sport of boxing and in nearly every great champion's comer has been a legendary trainer. These trainers are students of the sport, obtaining tremendous knowledge with every day they're around it. While it takes many of the great ones several years to obtain the status of legendary, Aaron Snowell is on a much quicker timetable. Having grown up in a small town in Pennsylvania, 16 miles from Muhammad Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, PA. Aaron is one of ten children. In 1972, a family friend informed him of Ali's camp which led him to attend Ali's sessions on a daily basis. A cousin was the first to take him to the boxing gym but Snowell at an early age met a great trainer named Slim Jim Robinson in Ali's camp. In fact it was Robinson who taught him the science of boxing. It was at this point Snowell began his marvelous journey in the world of training professional fighters. In 1981, Snowell began to train fighters for Monarch Sports Management, Inc., a company owned by Carl King, son of the world greatest promoter Don King. On March 24, 1984 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, at the age of 23, trained Tim Witherspoon to the W,B.C. Heavyweight Title, become to be the youngest trainer in history to train a heavyweight champion. In 1988, Snowell was given the opportunity to train Iron Mike Tyson the disputed heavyweight champion of the world. However, one of his biggest achievements came on January 29, 1994 at the opening of the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas as he trained Frankie Randall, a 17-1 underdog, to an upset victory over Julio Cesar Chavez, many felt to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world at the time. In July 1997, Aaron Snowell trained Tim Austin to capture the I.B.F. Bantamweight championship after suffering a broken jaw in the I st round of the contest. Despite his injury, Austin tko'ed Mbuele Botile in the 8th round. After the contest Austin was taken to the hospital. Following the surgery to repair two fractures of his lower jaw the doctor remarked Austin should thank his trainer Aaron Snowell for putting his jaw back in line. Doctor explains; "All I had to do was put a pin in two places". While many trainers wait a lifetime to train a world champion, Aaron Snowell has already received trainer of the year award by, W. B.A., W.B.C., and I. B.F. He continues to be one of the elite trainers in world of boxing today. Some of those champions include Tim Witherspoon, Julian Jackson, Rickey Parker, Mike Tyson, Frankie Randall, Michael Nunn, Hector Camacho,Greg Page, Fran Botha, Simon Brown, Terron Millett, Richard Hall, Nate Jone,Owen Beck, Larry Donarld, Tim Austin.to name a few.
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