![]() The Associated Press contributed to this report. ![]() HBO is scheduled to air a “Boxing After Dark” card on Saturday night. The West Virginia native and amateur boxer trained actor Wesley Snipes for his role as a fighter in Undisputed (2002) and appeared briefly in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and The Fighter (2010). Steward worked with current heavyweight champion Klitschko as recently as July when the boxer led 22,000 fans in singing “Happy Birthday” to the trainer. “He had a positive impact on everyone he encountered.” ![]() “He was the most loyal, generous, positive spirited, broadly accepting man I’ve ever known,” Lampley said. HBO Sports commentator Jim Lampley, who worked alongside Steward for more than a decade, said Steward’s wisdom and common touch made him special. Steward was an accomplished amateur boxer who chose to become a coach in the ring, starting in 1971 with a part-time position at Kronk for 35 per week. Ten bells do not seem enough to mourn his passing.” Emanuel Steward, who trained legendary fighters Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko among many others, has died at the age of 68. “His energy, enthusiasm and bright smile were a constant presence. “Manny was a respected colleague who taught us so much not only about the sweet science but also about friendship and loyalty,” HBO Sports president Ken Hershman said. His sister, Diane Steward Jones, said the surgery was for the stomach disorder diverticulitis, though many others who knew the trainer said it was for advanced cancer. Steward, owner of the fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit and an International Boxing Hall of Fame trainer, died Thursday at a Chicago hospital.ĮSPN reported Friday that Steward had been hospitalized since September, causing him to miss two HBO broadcasts, and underwent surgery. I do accept some responsibility.Emanuel Steward, who trained boxing champions Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Wladimir Klitschko and analyzed fights as an HBO Sports ringside commentator since 2001, has died. “I had a great cheerleader in my corner, but not much of a trainer. “I was making a lot of mistakes and I wasn’t being told about it,” Lewis later said. When one such left was thrown in the second round and Lewis’ chin was unprotected, McCall threw and landed a powerful right, knocking the champion to the canvas at Wembley Arena so heavily that after Lewis returned to his feet following a count of six the referee Jose Guadalupe Garcia rightly rescued him.Īlready frustrated with the methods of his then-trainer Pepe Correa, the previously undefeated Lewis, after also considering the decorated Angelo Dundee, recruited none other than Steward to be Correa’s successor and oversee the rebuild required to make him the world’s leading heavyweight. Recognising Lewis remained reliant on his natural talent – since impressing in stopping Donovan 'Razor' Ruddock in two rounds he had laboured to victories over Tony Tucker, Bruno and Phil Jackson – Steward had prepared McCall to counter what he perceived to be Lewis’ lazy left hand. In McCall’s corner that night, however, working his 94th world title fight was Steward, as effective a motivator as he was technically and tactically aware. ![]() So heavily favoured was Lewis, then the WBC heavyweight champion, the night of 24 September 1994 that not only had McCall been installed as a 5/1 underdog – even amid an awareness of his success as a sparring partner for Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno – but that an agreement existed for Lewis to fight his great rival Riddick Bowe the following March, after which it was hoped that the winner would meet the imprisoned Tyson. In this boxing documentary, I take a deep look at Hall of Fame boxing trainer, Emmanuel Steward, and how he turned the Kronk Boxing Gym into a factory of champions. With Lewis, as the trainer of his then-opponent Oliver McCall, Steward had even proved the inspiration behind the significant upset victory that ultimately proved Lewis’ making. Back in 2012 when Wladimir Klitschko was preparing to fight Tony Thompson, Emanuel Steward was asked for his thoughts on Tyson Fury.What he predicted 3-years. If with Hearns, one of the revered Four Kings, he masterminded the evolution of a once unremarkable puncher into one of the most devastating in history, in the similarly great Lewis and Klitschko he rescued and rebuilt the careers of two heavyweight champions whose futures were under threat. 6 They joined forces after Steward masterminded Oliver McCall's, right, victory over Lewis Credit: Getty Images - Getty ![]()
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