Johnny Duke (Trainer)

Johnny Duke is a well-known trainer of youths at the Bellevue Square Boys Club in Hartford, Connecticut, for four decades. A member of the National Golden Gloves Hall of Fame, Duke trained national amateur heavyweight champ Jimmy Blythe in 1958 and 1959, as well as Marlon Starling for part of his amateur and professional career. Inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame in 2005.

The above is courtesy of this page of the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame site.