RIP Angelo Dundee

[H2O Man]

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Legendary boxing trainer Angelo Dundee died today. He was 90 years old.

Dundee is best known for training heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. After Ali's retirement, Angelo trained Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman (on his comeback), and others. Before Ali, Dundee had trained several world champions.

One of my brothers had the opportunity to stay in Ali's training camps a few times. He thought the world of Dundee. My son (pictured above with Angelo) and I had the opportunity to meet him a few times at the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

[era veteran]

1. RIP

“I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.”

[trumad]

2. I went to High School with his daughter Terry in North Miami.

RIP

[joeybee12]

3. RIP...even that's a name I remember...nt

[Auggie]

4. I was wondering if he had written any books. I found these:

My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing

I Only Talk Winning (out of print, I believe)

[H2O Man]

5. "My View from the Corner"

is very good. Bert Sugar co-wrote it, and in a few places, one reads Bert's thinking, not Angelo's. But it is definitely worth reading.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. RIP

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[Auggie]

7. Obituary here:

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/7530790/muhammad-ali-legendary-trainer-angelo-dundee-dies-90

"To me, he was the greatest ambassador for boxing, the greatest goodwill ambassador in a sport where there's so much animosity and enemies," said Bruce Trampler, the longtime matchmaker who first went to work for Dundee in 1971. "The guy didn't have an enemy in the world."

How could he, when his favorite line was, "It doesn't cost anything more to be nice."

Wow