To say it would have been drastically different is an understatement. Now, try to imagine what the career of Kazushi Sakuraba would have looked like if Steward had been his trainer and the MMA landscape hadn’t been dominated by so few big promotions, leaving so few choices. And if I can find an opponent who gives the appearance of being formidable while posing no threat whatsoever to my fighter, that’s fine. Every fight requires that I be in there looking for an edge. Steward, perhaps one of the greatest managers/trainers of the past 35 years, was of a like mind on the subject. “And if you put him in a match that figures to be a war, you’d better be sure it will significantly advance his career or pay him a lot of money. "The cardinal rule of managing is never put your fighter in a match you don’t think he can win,” said Jacobs, who managed Edwin Rosario and Wilfred Benitez. In the book by Thomas Hauser called The Black Lights, the role of manager is perhaps best defined by some of the men themselves, such as Jim Jacobs and the late Emanuel Steward. The good managers-the real professionals-were trusted to negotiate the darker landscapes where the language is legalese and numbers and no small amount of double-talk.
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