Besides being an excellent instructor of boxers, D'Amato also developed some great boxing trainers, most notably Teddy Atlas. Atlas was trained by D'Amato as an amateur until a back injury stopped him from boxing. He then became an assistant to D'Amato. He helped to train Mike Tyson until the fifteen year old Tyson supposedly exposed himself to Atlas' thirteen year old niece. Atlas threatened Tyson with a gun and D'Amato then barred Atlas from working with him. Despite their estrangement after this incident, D'Amato's coaching style is readily apparent in Atlas' training methods. Atlas is most known for the training of Micheal Morrer and Alexander Povetkin.
Following is a link to Altas' book Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man. http://books.google.com/books?id=IGBuHKuH49gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=teddy+atlas&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
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