Ray Arcel
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Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920's through the 1980's. He trained eighteen world champions.
Arcel was born on August 30, 1899, in Terre Haute, Indiana. He grew up in Harlem and began training fighters at Stillman's Gym, near the old location of Madison Square Garden on 8th Avenue, in the 1920's. The champions he trained were Ezzard Charles, Jim Braddock, Barney Ross, Bob Olin, Tony Zale, Billy Soose, Ceferino Garcia, Lou Brouillard, Teddy Yarosz, Freddie Steele, Jackie Kid Berg, Alfonso Frazier, Abe Goldstein, Frankie Genaro, Sixto Escobar, Charley Phil Rosenberg, Roberto Duran, and Larry Holmes.[1]
After some disputes with Jim Norris and the International Boxing Club in the 1950's, Arcel retired from training until returning in the 1970's to work with Alfronso Frazier and Roberto Duran. After Duran quit in his second fight against Ray Leonard, Arcel helped prepare Larry Holmes for his fight against Gerry Cooney. He retired from training after that fight.
He died on March 6, 1994 at the age of 94.
[edit] References
- ^ Anderson, Dave (1991). In the Corner. New York, New York: William & Morrow Co., 119. ISBN 0688094465.
