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Emmanuel Steward legendary Boxing trainer dies - insane - 10-26-2012
This is pretty personal to me because I actually worked out at the Kronk Gym. He came in one day after he finished training Lennox Lewis who beat Holyfield for the title back to the humble little gym in the recreation center in Detroit. He had worked with some of the greatest names in boxing and he still cared about a little shit like me who was just working out at his gym and didn't even have an amateur record. Unlike a lot of people who make it big he never forgot where he came from and still treated everyone with respect. He was a good man and I feel lucky to have met him.
Steward, owner of the Kronk Gym in Detroit and an International Boxing Hall of Fame trainer, died Thursday. He was 68. His executive assistant, Victoria Kirton, said Steward died Thursday at a Chicago hospital. She didn't disclose the cause of death.
''It is not often that a person in any line of work gets a chance to work with a legend, well I was privileged enough to work with one for almost a decade,'' Klitschko said Thursday. ''I will miss our time together. The long talks about boxing, the world, and life itself. Most of all I will miss our friendship.''
Steward, whose father was a coal miner and mother was a seamstress, was born in West Virginia. He got boxing gloves as a Christmas present at the age of 8, the start of what would become a long career in the sweet science.
He moved to the Motor City just before becoming a teenager and trained as an amateur boxer at Brewster Recreation Center, which once was the home gym of Joe Louis.
Steward, at the age of 18, won the national Golden Gloves tournament as a bantamweight. Instead of trying to make it as a professional boxer, he went to work for the Detroit Edison Co. and in 1971 accepted a part-time position as head coach - for $35 per week - of the boxing program at the Kronk Recreation Center.