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b'Our conversation with Johnathon Banks who trains\\xa0Wladimir Klitschko.\\xa0Wladimir Klitschko fights\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\t2012 -\\xa0Banks stopped undefeated top contender Seth Mitchell, 25-1-1 (19KO\\u2019s), on Saturday, November 17, 2012 in the second round at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on HBO World Championship Boxing.\\n\\n\\n\\tDropping Mitchell three times in the second round, referee Eddie Cotton called a halt to the destruction at the 2:37 mark of the second stanza.\\n\\nWrote ESPN\\u2019s Dan Rafael, \\u201cMaybe some things are just meant to be. The script couldn\\u2019t have been better written for Banks in his major upset if a screenwriter had taken on the task. \\n\\n\\n\\tHe was supposed to fight Mitchell in July, but the fight was postponed when Mitchell suffered a hand injury in his exciting third-round knockout win against Chazz Witherspoon in April and couldn\\u2019t be ready in time.\\n\\nIt was around the time that the fight was postponed that the late Emanuel Steward, the Hall of Fame trainer and HBO announcer, first became ill.\\n\\n\\n\\tSteward had taken Banks under his wing when he was a 15-year-old amateur. Banks learned to box from Steward, spent time living with him and considered him a father figure. When Steward died in late October, his No. 1 fighter, heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, needed a trainer for his Sept. 10 title defense against Mariusz Wach and he turned to Banks, who had been in Klitschko\\u2019s training camps for years with Steward.\\u201d\\n\\n\\t\\u201cSo Banks was training Klitschko for his eventual win against Wach at the same time that he was preparing to fight Mitchell. While in Klitschko\\u2019s camp in Austria, Banks, 30, of Detroit, was doing four training sessions ...'