Ronnie Shields was a professional boxer in the Featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...

 division and is currently a boxing trainer.

Amateur career

Shields had a stellar amateur career. In 1974 he was the National Junior Olympics Featherweight champion. In 1975 he was the National Golden Gloves Featherweight champion. In 1976 and 1978 he was the National Golden Gloves Light welterweight champion.

Pro career

Shields turned pro in 1980 and ultimately had little success. In 1984 he challenged Billy Costello

Billy Costello

Billy Costello was a professional boxer in the United States.-Early Life:...

 for the WBC light welterweight title, but lost a decision. In 1986 he took on Tsuyoshi Hamada

Tsuyoshi Hamada

is a retired Japanese professional boxer who is a former WBC world junior welterweight champion.Hamada was born in Nakagusuku, Okinawa, and began boxing at the age of fifteen. He won the Japan's inter-high school championship in the featherweight division in 1978. He had an amateur record of 37–6...

 in Japan for the WBC light welterweight title, but lost a split decision. He retired in 1988.

Trainer

After his boxing career, Shields has become a prominent trainer in the sport. He works out of the Savannah Boxing Gym in Houston, Texas. Among the fighters he has worked with are:

• Mike Tyson
  Mike Tyson
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• Vernon Forrest
  Vernon Forrest
  Vernon Forrest, nicknamed "The Viper", was an American professional boxer who became a world champion in the welterweight and light middleweight divisions and noted for his two victories over Shane Mosley and upset losses to Ricardo Mayorga.- Early years and amateur career :Forrest began boxing at...
  
  
• Juan Díaz
  Juan Díaz (American boxer)
  Juan Díaz, born September 17, 1983 in Houston, Texas, is a retired Mexican-American boxer in the lightweight division. His record is 35-4...
  
  
• Kassim Ouma
  Kassim Ouma
  Kassim Ouma is a Ugandan boxer. He is currently the NABA middleweight champion.-Early life:Born into poverty, at the age of six he was kidnapped and forced to join the National Resistance Army and consequently did not see his family for five years. Ouma is the 7th of 13 children, which include 7...
  
  
• Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...
  
  
• Egerton Marcus
  Egerton Marcus
  Egerton Marcus is a retired Canadian boxer who won the silver medal in the Middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dominick Guinn
  Dominick Guinn
  Dominick Alexander Guinn, , is an American professional boxer with a record of 33-6-1, with 22 KOs. He is self-managed and he is trained by Ronnie Shields...
  
  
• David Tua
  David Tua
  David "Tuamanator" Tua is a New Zealand professional heavyweight boxer, fighting out of South Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.He is a former WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Oriental Heavyweight champion....
  
  
• Raúl Márquez
  Raul Marquez
  Raúl Márquez is a former American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former IBF Light Middleweight Champion. Márquez also represented the U.S...
  
  
• Jesse James Leija
  Jesse James Leija
  James Leija , is a retired professional boxer from Texas.-Amateur career:Leija had an amateur career that spanned three years, going 23-5 during this time. He won the San Antonio Golden Gloves in 1988...
  
  
• Jesús Chávez
  Jesús Chávez
  Jesús Auerelio Chávez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former NABF, WBC Super Featherweight and IBF Lightweight Champion.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Kermit Cintron
  Kermit Cintron
  Kermit Cintrón is a Puerto Rican boxer who is from Carolina, Puerto Rico. Cintrón is trained by Ronnie Shields and managed by Josh Dubin. He is promoted by Top Rank.-Early and personal life:...
  
  
• Evander Holyfield
  Evander Holyfield
  Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...
  
  
• Romallis Ellis
  Romallis Ellis
  Romallis Ellis was an American boxer, who won the Lightweight Bronze medal at the 1998 Olympics.-Amateur career:*1988 United States Amateur Lightweight champion*1988 Olympic Lightweight Bronze Medalist....
  
  
• Mike Lee
• Tomasz Adamek
  Tomasz Adamek
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• Chris Arreola
  Chris Arreola
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Awards and recognition

• 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...
  
  's Trainer of the Year (2003)

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