

Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who has been promoting boxing for more than 40 years, said Steward will be sorely missed by the boxing community. The original Kronk closed in 2006, and moved to another part of Detroit. Steward worked with his fighters in the cramped, but legendary Kronk Gym in downtown Detroit. I know he will be with us in spirit along the way and we will accomplish these goals in his honor. My team and I will carry on with the goals we had set while Emanuel was with us because that is exactly what Emanuel would have wanted. The long talks about boxing, the world, and life itself. Well I was privileged enough to work with one for almost a decade. It is not often that a person in any line of work gets a chance to work with a legend. Vitali and I, along with the entire Team Klitschko, send our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Emanuel's family and friends.

10 title defense against Mariusz Wach, released a statement that read: "Boxing has suffered a tremendous loss with the passing of Emanuel Steward. He later trained heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and was the trainer for current heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko up until his death. Steward, who for the last 11 years had been a boxing analyst for HBO, was the cornerman for such great Detroit-area fighters as 1980s-era champions Thomas Hearns, Hilmer Kenty and Milton McCrory. "He was in no pain, and we sang to him, as well as did the doctors present.
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"He has passed – he's gone home," Steward-Jones told the Free Press by phone. Steward-Jones, who handled business and public relations for Steward, told the Detroit Free Press she and several family members were by his side. He had been hospitalized since September and underwent surgery recently for diverticulitis, a stomach disorder, according to his sister, Diane Steward-Jones. Steward had been suffering from diverticulitis, but there were various reports that he had stage 4 colon cancer as well.
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I like to teach and it doesn't matter who I teach at this point. "I would definitely have Justin Bieber in camp because Emanuel was teaching Eminem so it's no different.
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Likewise, Tyson Fury's trainer, SugarHill Steward, thinks the same as Howard and confessed that he would agree to train Bieber to make him a better boxer, thus following in the footsteps of his late uncle Emanuel, who long ago taught Eminem how to box. Fury's trainer would agree to work with Bieber Can you imagine pop star Justin Bieber following in the footsteps of The Problem Child?įor some this idea is not so far-fetched, including screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, who has seen Bieber's boxing training for the film about Ukrainian fighter Dmitry Salita. Jake Paul's emergence in boxing has undoubtedly been one of the biggest controversies in the sport at least in recent years, an influencer turned athlete who leads stellar fights despite the criticism of many.
