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Post by Freedom on Feb 24, 2011 7:19:50 GMT -5
Video: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9406099.stmBoxing legend Angelo Dundee still going strong As a legend in the world of boxing, Angelo Dundee is known as America's most famous cornerman, a role he's played for Muhammad Ali and 17 other champions. But as he explains in this First Person account, at the age of 89 he is showing no signs of slowing down.
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Post by maddogblues on Feb 24, 2011 11:59:22 GMT -5
Video: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9406099.stmBoxing legend Angelo Dundee still going strong As a legend in the world of boxing, Angelo Dundee is known as America's most famous cornerman, a role he's played for Muhammad Ali and 17 other champions. But as he explains in this First Person account, at the age of 89 he is showing no signs of slowing down. He looks in better shape than my dad did at 89. Dad had a stroke at the age of 89 and was forced to live paralyzed on one side and unable to speak for the next 3 and a half years. Quite a vibrant guy this Dundee is. I thought his advice and look on life were just like my father's would have been. In fact Dundee said precisely the same thing about his work, he enjoyed it and if you don't enjoy something you should be doing it.
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Post by werewolf on Apr 22, 2011 0:40:48 GMT -5
My Ozark Mountain hillbilly uncle lived to 95. For his 95th birthday his friends took him to Hooters and he danced with the Hooters girls. I have the photos. He was a great guy. He used to hang out with Jesse James' great grandson. He was sharp as a tack right up until the end. They don't make em like that any more. I miss him.
As for Angelo Dundee, he was born Angelo Mirena. Where did Dundee come from? He did a lot of crooked stuff in boxing, especially for that bum Clay alias Ali, like fix his gloves in the Cooper fight and fix the ropes in the Foreman fight. Why haven't the record books been corrected to show Cooper winning by KO in the first Clay fight. Instead the controlled US media splices the tapes of that fight together so it appears that nothing out of the ordinary occurred, and they voice over it totally ignoring Dundee's now admitted glove tampering.
President Werewolf
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Post by az on Apr 27, 2011 2:38:00 GMT -5
You live in the Ozarks? Do us a favour chief...go find Epluribus36 the former boxingaddicts poster. Thanks As for Dundee...he did what every other trainer does...whatever is best for his fighter. And if that means loosening the ropes for Foreman or cutting a hole the size of the grand canyon in Ali / Clay's gloves in order to give him an extra hour and a half between rounds then...so be it
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Post by az on Apr 27, 2011 2:39:05 GMT -5
Oh, and you forgot to mention that Dundee placed the glass in Lewis' gloves for the Klitschko fight
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Post by werewolf on Jun 26, 2011 14:02:25 GMT -5
No, every trainer isn't a criminal. By that line of thinking Panama Lewis was just doing his job.
I don't know about glass but who inspects gloves these days? Who knows but one of your nice trainers might have slipped something sharp into Lewis' lacing. Vitali had never even been cut at all in his entire boxing and kickboxing career, either before or after that fight. More of Lewis' fights were suspicious. For instance both Tyson and Golota appeared to have been doped up when they met him.
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