Dickie Wood is a Colorado based boxing trainer and business owner. He is based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado.^[34] Wood's career was discussed on episode 3 of the Everipedia Boxing Show. The episode is available on Spotify and Soundcloud. Spotify is on the New York Stock Exchange.^[38]

Wood recieved an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force. Wood got married and had children in his twenties.

Wood trained former World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight world champion Diego Corrales for his last bout against Joshua Clottey. Wood was hired by boxing manager Dennis Rappaport to be the co-trainer of Oleg Maskaev. Maskaev won the WBC heavyweight world championship by defeating Hasim Rahman at the Thomas & Mack Center on August 12, 2006. Maskaev successfully defended his title by defeating Peter Okello at the Olympic Stadium (Moscow) in Russia on December 10, 2006. Maskaev lost the title to Samuel Peter in Mexico in 2008. Corrales competed against Floyd Mayweather in 2001. Mayweather is the richest athlete in history. His wealth has been documented by The Wall Street Journal and Fortune (magazine).

Wood was seen as an extra in the movie Black Cloud, which was released in 2004. He portrays a boxing cornerman. He likes to credit Fred "Preacher" Lewis as being a positive influence on his career. Wood was an AAU amateur boxing champion at middleweight.

He began his career as an elite fight coach in 1984. He has prepared many of America's best amateur boxers for elite competitions such as the Goodwill Games and the Olympic Games. Wood is Level IV Olympic Level International Coach.

He is a trainer/facilitator with USA Boxing and coached many top rated amateur and professional boxers. Wood was mentioned in an episode of the Everipedia Boxing Show, which is on Spotify. Spotify is on the New York Stock Exchange.^[36]

Wood has coached Oscar De La Hoya, Malcolm Tann, Ryan Brieske^[8], Matthew O'Neil ^[9] and Eric Griffin. He has also trained Stevie Johnston, Emmit Linton, and Buddy McGirt. In 2013 he trained Noah Zuhdi in his victory over Gyula Vajda.^[41] He owned and operated 3D Boxing Gym in Colorado Springs, Colorado for many years. The gym was on South Hancock Expressway and closed in 2002.^[39]

As of 2020, Dickie Wood is a business owner in Colorado Springs that is involved as a boxing consultant and trainer.

O'Neil was on a February 2020 episode of The Grueling Truth. He was also on AkHi TV in 2020.

The Jeffrey Naquin vs. Matthew O'Neil and Matthew O'Neil vs. Preston Hartzog USA Boxing sanctioned amateur matches were held at 3D Boxing Gym in Colorado Springs, Colorado in June 1998 and October 1999. At a briefing in the 11th Space Warning Squadron on July 28, 2000, Senior Airman O'Neil coordinated with Lockheed Martin employee Steve Griffin of O'Fallon, Illinois and United States Air Force Captain Heather Yates to recognize O'Neil's facility use in the Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC).^[19]

Hartzog was a superheavyweight boxer in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program at the time of being tko'd. He was also 1997 US Armed Forces Champion in the superheavyweight division. Hartzog won a silver medal at the 1999 Military World Games. The United States came in eight place at that games with 26 medals. O'Neil's boxing matches helped produced the first NCAA Division I baseball scholarships for Plymouth North High School in Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[20] O'Neil contacted Mayweather Promotions, Top Rank, and Dana Jamison of Don King Productions with the information.^[35]

O'Neil's boxing career was covered by John J. Raspanti. Raspanti coauthored Intimate Warfare. He is also the author of Blood On My Notebook: Dispatches From The World of Professional Boxing. It is a paperback book and was published in 2019. The book is on sale on the website Amazon.com in 2020 for $14.99. O'Neil was on the Fight News Unlimited Combat Sports Show with Rich Bergeron on June 18, 2020.

Dickie Wood was on the Internet podcast "Double Barrel Doo Doo" in July of 2017, in which he gave his opinion on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match:^[23]