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April 14, 2012 by jaywaltergunn
HOF Trainer of Basilio, Leonard & Ali, Angelo Dundee Dead at 90
After working with the best trainers of the Golden Era of boxing at one of the best gyms in the land, Stillman’s in New York, Philly-born Angelo Dundee was prepared to bring the best out the men he worked with, and did he ever. Beginning with the welterweight Upstate Onion Farmer Carmen Basilio, for whom he was the cornerman as Basilio captured the world title in 1955, through his career-long support of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, Dundee is credited with fostering 13 world champions, including Jimmy Ellis, George Foreman, Michael Nunn and Pinklon Thomas. Training fighters primarily out of his brother’s 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, Florida, his work enhanced the reputations and abilities of scores of fighters and earned him the respect of the whole world’s boxing community, with dual Al Buck Awards from the Boxing Writers Association of America as Manager of the Year (1968 & 1979) and inductions into both the World and the International Boxing Halls of Fame, in the “Managers & Trainers” and “Non-participant” categories respectively. The ruddy, rugged-faced man appeared alongside even movie stars, as he served Russell Crowe as both trainer in actuality and cornerman on film for Crowe’s role as James J. Braddock in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man. Dundee died in Tampa, Florida, on the 1st of this month and was mourned and memorialized throughout the boxing world. In the collection presented here at BoxingTickets.com, Dundee’s life and work is well represented, though inconsistently noted as yet, but includes a pass issued by the promoters of the 1984 Phoenix, Arizona bout between Gerry Cooney and George Chaplin for Dundee for example see #791 and, significantly, a fair number of tickets for the crucial first Liston-Clay fight in which Ali proclaimed for all the world that he was “the Greatest,” staged at the Convention Hall in Miami Beach, Dundee’s home turf for what would become The Ring Magazine 1964 Fight of the Year, not Dundee’s first claim as a trainer associated with that honorfor example see #369
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