{"id":32611,"date":"2025-07-30T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32611\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:26:11","slug":"tommy-brooks-former-coach-to-mike-tyson-and-evander-holyfield-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32611\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Brooks, former coach to Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tommy Brooks has died at the age of 71, the legendary boxing<\/a> coach passing away following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

Brooks is best known for his stint coaching former two-weight undisputed champion Evander Holyfield<\/a>, while he also trained heavyweight great Mike Tyson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Promoter Lou DiBella confirmed the news of Brooks\u2019s passing on Tuesday (29 July). <\/p>\n

DiBella wrote on X\/Twitter<\/a>: \u201cGot more bad news a little while ago. It was just confirmed by his family that esteemed #boxing trainer Tommy Brooks died tonight, after having fought a very aggressive cancer. <\/p>\n

\u201cToo young. Great boxing man and even better person, he was just a solid dude. Shared many memorable nights with Tommy and his wife, Donna Duva, during the glory days of Main Events. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy love and prayers to Donna and all their fam. This is now a real tough stretch of losing real #boxing people. It\u2019s getting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooks won a national title in the US as an amateur boxer, before turning professional in 1977 and going 7-3.<\/p>\n

\"TommyTommy Brooks (right) training Evander Holyfield in 1998 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

However, he is better known for his ensuing coaching career, having worked with Holyfield in the 1990s and 2000s, and Tyson during the latter decade. <\/p>\n

In fact, Brooks guided Holyfield to his two victories over \u201cIron Mike\u201d \u2013 in 1996 and 1997 \u2013 before partnering with the latter as Tyson looked to rebuild. <\/p>\n

Brooks coached Tyson up until 2002, parting ways with his fellow American after a defeat by Lennox Lewis.<\/p>\n

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Brooks also worked with brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, who are considered heavyweight greats in their own right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-32611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}