Legendary boxing trainer Angelo Dundee dies
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Angelo Dundee, the bright motivator who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to winning in his biggest bout, has died in Tampa, Florida. He was 90.
The genial Dundee was richest known for being in Ali's corner for almost his entire career, but those in boxing also knew him as an ambassador for boxing and a presume of integrity in a sport that often lacked it.
He died with his family surrounding him, said son, Jimmy Dundee, but not before being competent to attend Ali's 70th birthday bash in Louisville last month.
"It was the way he wanted to go," Jimmy Dundee said.
"He did everything he wanted to do."
Jimmy Dundee said his sire was hospitalized for a blood clot last week and was briefly in a rehabilitation karzy before returning to his apartment.
"He was coming along good yesterday and then he started to have breathing problems. My helpmate was with him at the time, thank God, and called and said he can't breathe. We all got over there. All the grandkids were there. He didn't be to go slowly," the son said.
Source: Stuff.co.nz