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trainer who worked with a number of world champions including Larry Holmes and

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. He was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Giachetti first began working in boxing in 1961 and also helped Don King in his first promotion with

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. Most famous for guiding Holmes to the heavyweight championship, he trained many other top fighters of the 1970s and 1980s including

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, Aaron Pryor and Greg Page. When

was dethroned as heavyweight champion by James "Buster" Douglas in 1990 in a 10th-round knockout in

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, King inserted Giachetti as Tyson's trainer. Giachetti trained Tyson for his next four fights, those against Henry Tillman, Alex Stewart, and the two fights against Donovan "Razor" Ruddock. Giachetti later returned to Tyson's corner for his second fight against

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, the infamous "bite fight". Giachetti also trained two times world cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck and worked with another top cruiserweight Steve Cunningham and

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in the late 1980s. He worked on several

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movies and worked with Stallone on boxing promotions in the New York City area. Giachetti died February 3, 2016, at the age of 75 in

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American boxing trainers American people of Italian descent 1940 births 2016 deaths People from Uniontown, Pennsylvania {{Mike Tyson