Teddy Atlas — the ESPN analyst and on-again, off-again trainer who helmed Michael Moorer to a heavyweight title in 1994 — worked with Russia’s Alexander Povetkin for more than two years with a singular purpose in mind:
Get Klitschko.
A Cus D’Amato protégé, Atlas, from day one, had Povetkin thinking Klitschko, thinking of ways to take down little brother Wladimir. Atlas drilled into Povetkin, now 34, the holes in Klitschko’s game.
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