![]() Manny also trained a young Detroit rapper, Eminem, how to box at Kronk Gym. He also trained Julio Cesar Chavez, Miguel Cotto, Oscar de la Hoya, Naseem Hamed, Evander Holyfield, and Mike McCallum. Throughout his incredible career, Steward reportedly trained 41 world champions, perhaps, the most noteworthy were Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. Steward also served as National Director of Coaching for USA Boxing in the early 2000’s. NEWS: Terence Crawford: "My hand will be raised tonight" Kronk Gym later became a property of Steward’s and he developed it into one of the most successful and famous boxing gyms in the world. In 1971, Steward became a part-time trainer at Kronk Gym, where he eventually guided many of the country’s top amateur boxers. As an amateur boxer, he compiled a 94-3 record, highlighted by a gold-medal performance at the 1963 National Golden Gloves Tournament as a bantamweight, but he decided against trying out for the US Olympic Boxing Team. His boxing career culminated with his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996.Īt the age of 12, Manny moved with his mother from West Virginia to Detroit, where his life soon turned to boxing. Steward was a boxer, trainer extraordinaire, and HBO commentator until his untimely death in 2012 at the age of 68. ![]() The second annual USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame reception, held in conjunction with the 2018 USA Boxing Elite and Youth National Championships and Junior and Prep Open, December 2-8, will be held December 7, at the Radisson Hotel (215 S. “I will miss our time together.The late Emanuel Stewart, arguably the greatest boxing trainer of all-time, is a member of the Class of 2018 getting inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame. “It is not often that a person in any line of work gets a chance to work with a legend.… I was privileged enough to work with one for almost a decade,” Klitschko said. Klitschko has trained without Steward for his title defense against Mariusz Wach next month in Germany. With Steward presiding over a “168-hours-a-week” training program in which he’d often sleep in the same room and share meals with his fighters, then train, watch film and engage in “talking, talking, talking,” Lampley said, Lewis developed to defeat Mike Tyson in 2002. Many fighters relied on Steward’s wisdom. Losing him from my life, I’m very hurt today.” Emanuel Steward is the man who taught me how to adapt, how to deal with all the different situations. “Through the good times, the difficult times, he was there for me. “I was like the son he never had,” Hearns said Thursday of Steward. In a fight often regarded as the greatest three-round bout in the sport’s history, Hearns blasted Hagler in the opening seconds, but suffered a broken right hand on his first punch, delivering what Lampley described as “the perfect step-over right cross.”Ī hurt and cut Hagler regrouped and rallied for the third-round knockout. “Now you won’t have any legs tonight, so you’ll just have to run at him and try to knock him out,” Steward said to Hearns. Steward returned to find one of the people massaging Hearns’ legs, a “terrible mistake,” Steward recounted to Lampley. ![]() In his absence, some Detroit friends entered. Steward left Hearns’ side briefly in the pre-fight training room to tend to some errands. Hearns gained another mega-bout against Marvin Hagler. Hearns was leading on all three judges’ score cards when Leonard launched a stirring rally that concluded with a 14th-round technical knockout. ![]() The next year Hearns, who developed under Steward’s hand from scrawny “Motor City Cobra” to “Hitman,” battled Sugar Ray Leonard in a highly anticipated super-fight. In 1980, Hilmer Kenty became Steward’s first champion. “His favorite quote was, ‘Who would’ve thought I’d leave West Virginia to find a gym for troubled, inner-city kids in Detroit and train an Irish middleweight, Andy Lee, and a Ukrainian heavyweight, Klitschko?’” Lampley said. ![]()
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