{"id":3625,"date":"2012-10-25T19:36:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T02:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/emanuel-steward-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T19:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T02:37:22","slug":"emanuel-steward-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/25\/emanuel-steward-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel Steward Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Emanuel Steward, legendary trainer of Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko, dies aged 68<\/h1>\n

Emanuel Steward, whose alumni as a trainer included the boxing legends Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko has died at the age of 68.<\/em>
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By\u00a0Gareth A Davies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Steward\u2019s name has been long associated with the Kronk gym in Detroit, where his fighters trained in sweltering heat and as hard as if they were in fights. Steward, who would dance on his feet showing fighters moves, to this day, showed a perspicacity inside and outside the ropes.<\/p>\n

He had won 94 of 97 fights as an amateur and was the US bantamweight champion in 1963. In the seventies, he started the Kronk sweat house.<\/p>\n

Steward\u2019s first world champion, in 1980, was Hilmer Kenty, the first world champion the motor city had celebrated since the great Joe Louis \u2013 and that success was followed quickly in the same year by the then ferocious welterweight Hearns.<\/p>\n

Steward was instrumental in helping the welterweight super-fight between Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard come together in 1981. \u201cIt was simple. We met in an airport, it was done in an hour,\u201d he told me last year. Hearns also went on to have one of the most exciting fights in history, against Marvin Hagler.<\/p>\n

Steward would go on to become trainer, mentor and in is latter years, a guru to a total of 43 world champions. Steward talked a lot, he talked to everyone \u2013 journalists, boxers, fighters, managers \u2013 and he talked sense. He had enjoyed an analyst\u2019s ringside role on television for over two decades in the United States.<\/p>\n

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from The Telegraph Emanuel Steward, legendary trainer of Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko, dies aged 68 Emanuel Steward, whose alumni as a trainer included the boxing legends Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko has died at the age of 68. By\u00a0Gareth A Davies Steward\u2019s name has been long associated with the Kronk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}