Emanuel Steward, who has died aged 68, was a coaching colossus whose boxers straddled the 20th and early 21st centuries.
He may have spurned the 1964 Tokyo Olympic boxing trials to complete his apprenticeship as an electrician, but the man whose love of the sport began when his parents gave him a pair of boxing gloves for Christmas in 1952 found his true calling when he became the Kronk Centre boxing team coach in Detroit for $35 per week.
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Emanuel Steward
Boxing coach;
Born: July 7, 1944; Died: October 25, 2012.
Emanuel Steward, who has died aged 68, was a coaching colossus whose boxers straddled the 20th and early 21st centuries.
He may have spurned the 1964 Tokyo Olympic boxing trials to complete his apprenticeship as an electrician, but the man whose love of the sport began when his parents gave him a pair of boxing gloves for Christmas in 1952 found his true calling when he became the Kronk Centre boxing team coach in Detroit for $35 per week.
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