Daily News | How former SEPTA bus driver Stephen Edwards became a world-champion boxing trainer
The bus usually followed a route that started in North Philadelphia, rumbled south into Center City, and headed east for Penn’s Landing. Stephen Edwards learned how to maneuver that SEPTA bus through the narrow passages on 23rd Street, how to turn it onto Ridge Avenue, and then deal with the hustle of Market Street.
On Saturday night, Edwards will work the corner for Caleb Plant — one of the sport’s biggest draws — on Showtime pay-per-view. He has come a long way from the No. 33 bus. He enjoyed it but there were no plans to make boxing a career. That changed in 2009 when Edwards met Julian Williams, then a promising amateur boxer from West Philadelphia. Williams wanted Edwards to be his trainer.
“There would be mornings where I didn’t feel like waking up and meeting Julian at the track but I would do it just to shut everyone up. I was doing it to build a world champion. I was saying, ‘I’m going to be the head trainer of a world champion.’ It gave me a lot of fuel and made me work really, really hard.”
Edwards credits his success to his ability to connect with fighters. Williams was a broke teenager when he met Edwards. Plant was already a millionaire world champion when he asked Edwards to train him. The fighters were at opposite points in their careers and Edwards found a way to better both of them.
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