Richie Giachetti

Who is Richie Giachetti?

Richie Giachetti is a boxing trainer who has worked with a number of world champions including Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson.

Giachetti first began working in boxing in 1961 and also helped Don King in his first promotion with Muhammad Ali.

Giachetti is most famous for guiding Larry Holmes to the heavyweight championship, Giachetti trained many other top fighters of the 70’s and 80’s including the like of Earnie Shavers, Aaron Pryor and Greg Page.

When Mike Tyson was dethroned of his heavyweight crown by James "Buster" Douglas in 1990 in a 10th-round knockout in Tokyo, 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 Evander Holyfield, the infamous "bite fight".

Giachetti also trained two times world cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck and worked with another top cruiserweight Steve Cunningham as well former world contender Sal "Rocky" Cenicola in the late 1980s.