{"id":17733,"date":"2012-10-29T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:21:01","slug":"legendary-boxing-trainer-emanuel-steward-dead-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17733","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Boxing Trainer Emanuel Steward Dead At\u00a068"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 <strong>Emanuel\u00a0Steward,<\/strong> the owner of the legendary Kronk Gym and a trainer for boxers including <strong>Thomas Hearns<\/strong>, <strong>Evander Holyfield <\/strong>and <strong>Oscar De La Hoya<\/strong>, died Thursday. He was 68.<strong> Victoria Kirton<\/strong>, <strong>Steward\u2019s<\/strong> executive assistant, said <strong>Steward<\/strong> died at a Chicago hospital. She did not disclose the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steward<\/strong>\u00a0trained, helped train or managed some of the greatest fighters of the past 40 years out of the Kronk, a dingy, overheated basement gym that produced world champions like <strong>Hearns<\/strong>,<strong> Sugar Ray Leonar<\/strong>d and <strong>Lennox Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steward<\/strong>, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, also worked closely with <strong>Lewis<\/strong> during his title run, and current heavyweight champion <strong>Wladimir Klitschko<\/strong> as recently as July. <strong>Klitschko<\/strong> has trained recently without\u00a0<strong>Steward\u00a0<\/strong>for his fight against <strong>Mariusz Wach<\/strong> next month in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis spirit is always here,\u201d <strong>Klitschko<\/strong> said. \u201cI can hear his voice in sparring while doing things, whispering in my ear. As the famous saying goes, \u2018The show must go on,\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly the case.\u201d <strong>Steward<\/strong>\u00a0also worked since 2001 as a boxing analyst for broadcaster HBO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Manny<\/strong> was a respected colleague who taught us so much not only about the sweet science but also about friendship and loyalty,\u201d HBO Sports President <strong>Ken Hershman<\/strong> said. \u201cHis energy, enthusiasm and bright smile were a constant presence. Ten bells do not seem enough to mourn his passing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Emanuel\u00a0Steward, the owner of the legendary Kronk Gym and a trainer for boxers including Thomas Hearns, Evander Holyfield and Oscar De La Hoya, died Thursday. He was 68. Victoria Kirton, Steward\u2019s executive assistant, said Steward died at a Chicago hospital. She did not disclose the cause of death. Steward\u00a0trained, helped train or managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}