Ignacio Beristáin is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 trainer in the sport of boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

. Beristain is a member of the Boxing Hall of Fame

International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta...

 and is considered one of the greatest trainers in the history of boxing.

Training career

He has trained several notable boxers, including brothers Juan Manuel

Juan Manuel Márquez

Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...

 and Rafael Marquez

Rafael Márquez (boxer)

Rafael Márquez Méndez is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at the IBF / IBO Bantamweight and WBC Super Bantamweight divisions....

 and hall of famers Ricardo López and Humberto "Chiquita" González

Humberto Gonzalez

Humberto González is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he earned many admirers during his professional boxing career...

. His first world champion was two-division champion and hall of famer Daniel Zaragoza

Daniel Zaragoza

Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...

. He also had a brief stint in training Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

 when De La Hoya faced Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

 on December 2008.

Boxers Trained

• Ricardo López - four time champion (hall of fame member)
• Juan Manuel Márquez
  Juan Manuel Márquez
  Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the fourth Mexican-born boxer to become a three-division world champion, where he won eight world titles in three different boxing weight classes.Currently, Marquez is the WBA Super, WBO and The Ring lightweight champion...
  
   - three division champion
• Rafael Márquez
  Rafael Márquez (boxer)
  Rafael Márquez Méndez is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at the IBF / IBO Bantamweight and WBC Super Bantamweight divisions....
  
   - two division champion
• Daniel Zaragoza
  Daniel Zaragoza
  Daniel Zaragoza was a Mexican professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the Super Bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s.-Amateur career:...
  
   - four time champion (hall of fame member)
• Humberto González
  Humberto Gonzalez
  Humberto González is a Mexican former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he earned many admirers during his professional boxing career...
  
   - four time champion (hall of fame member)
• Victor Rabanales
  Victor Rabanales
  Victor Manuel Rabanales was a Mexican boxer in the Featherweight division. He is a former WBC FECARBOX and the WBC Bantamweight Champion...
  
   - bantamweight champion
• Oscar De La Hoya
  Oscar de la Hoya
  Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...
  
   - six division champion
• Jorge Arce
  Jorge Arce
  Jorge Armando Arce Armenta is a Mexican professional boxer. Arce is the former WBO World Light Flyweight, WBC World Light Flyweight, Interim WBC World Flyweight, Interim WBA World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Bantamweight, and is the current WBO World Bantamweight...
  
   - four time champion
• Guty Espadas
  Guty Espadas
  Guty Espadas was a Mexican professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council Flyweight Championship. He is also the Father of former World Champion Guty Espadas Jr.-WBC Flyweight Championship:...
  
   - flyweight champion
• Guty Espadas, Jr. - featherweight champion
• Alfredo Angulo
  Alfredo Angulo
  Alfredo Angulo López is a Mexican professional boxer and the former interim WBO Light Middleweight Champion. Angulo also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for Mexico...
  
   - jr middleweight prospect
• Enrique Sánchez
  Enrique Sánchez
  Enrique José Sánchez León was a Mexican boxer in the Super Bantamweight division...
  
   - bantamweight champion
• Gilberto Román
  Gilberto Roman
  Gilberto Román was a Mexican boxer in the Super Flyweight division and a member of the 1980 Mexican Olympic team. Román was a two-time WBC Super Flyweight Champion and is considered by many fans to be one of the great champions in this division...
  
   - two time champion (with 11 title defenses)
• Jhonny González
  Jhonny González
  Jhonny González is a Mexican professional boxer and is the current WBC featherweight champion...
  
   - two division champion
• Melchor Cob Castro
  Melchor Cob Castro
  Melchor Cob Castro a professional boxer in the light flyweight division.- Pro career :...
  
   - two time champion
• Rodolfo López
  Rodolfo López
  Rodolfo López is a professional boxer. He competes in the featherweight division. His record is 25–5–1 , and he is the current WBC world featherweight champion....
  
   - featherweight champion
• Alejandro Barrera
  Alejandro Barrera
  Alejandro Barrera is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer. He fights in the Light Middleweight division, and is the current WBC FECOMBOX Light Middleweight champion.-Professional career:...
  
   - jr middleweight prospect
• Abner Mares
  Abner Mares
  Abner Mares Martínez is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Abner medaled repeatedly in international amateur tournaments for Mexico. Mares grew up in the city of Hawaiian Gardens, California.-Amateur career:As an amateur, Mares compiled a record of 112-8 with 84...
  
   - bantamweight champion
• Vicente Escobedo
  Vicente Escobedo
  Vicente Escobedo is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent.-Amateur career:As an amateur Escobedo boxed out of the Woodland Boxing Club....
  
   - former title challenger
• Juan Carlos Salgado
  Juan Carlos Salgado
  Juan Carlos Salgado is a Mexican professional boxer in the Super Featherweight division. He is the former WBC FECARBOX, WBC Continental Americas Featherweight, and WBA Super Featherweight Champion...
  
   - two time champion
• Jorge Paez
  Jorge Paez
  Jorge Adolfo Febles Páez is a Mexican boxer, actor and circus performer. Páez is the former WBO and IBF Featherweight champion. Paez is nicknamed " El Maromero", in honor of the acts he performs at the circus. Paez has been a circus performer in his northwest Mexico hometown since he was very young...
  
    - two time champion

Boxing Hall of Fame

On 2006, Beristáin became a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame

World Boxing Hall of Fame

The World Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame , with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized...

 as a trainer. Then on December 7, 2010, he was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame

International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta...

, alongside legendary Mexican champion Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez

Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...

, heavyweight champion Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

, and actor Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...

.