Former world super-bantamweight champion Bones Adams is now one of the go-to trainers in Las Vegas. But life has been challenging for him. Born into poverty in Kentucky, he soon found himself tied up with gang life in Detroit. His godfather, the infamous Johnny Ace, was shot and murdered.

Bones started fighting. It was something that came naturally to him and it led him to big fights with the likes of Paulie Ayala, Nestor Gaza, Guty Espades and Kevin Kelley.

While he rated Prince Naseem Hamed, he craved the Erik Morales fight and it was there for him until he lost his hotly-disputed first bout with Ayala. That sucked the life from him and he was never the same again. He struggled in retirement, went off the rails, went to jail and he nearly suffered similar fates to his late friends, Johnny Tapia and Diego Corrales,

Adams is a complex person, always has been, always will be.

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