Aaron Snowell
"The Trainer of Champions"
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 the early 1970's 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 24, trained Tim Witherspoon to the W.B.C. Heavyweight Title, becoming what many felt at time 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 35-1 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.
And many more.
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