Emanuel Stewart dead @ 68yrs old.

Damn, that's too bad. I loved him in Webster. He did not look that old, though.
 
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facts about EMANUEL STEWARD

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Emanuel Steward (07.07.1944- 25.10 2012) won the National Golden Gloves Bantamweight Championship in 1963. He had an amateur record of 94-3.

After winning the Golden Gloves, Steward quit boxing and took a job as an electrician at Detroit Edison.

Steward got back into boxing when he started training his 15-year-old half-brother James at the Kronk Recreation Center.

Steward accepted a part-time position as the head boxing coach at Kronk, and the team won seven titles at the 1971 Detroit Golden Gloves. The following year, he quit his job and became a full-time boxing trainer.

By the mid-1970s, Steward had built Kronk into a national power in amateur boxing.

Steward's first professional world champion was Hilmer Kenty, who won the WBA Lightweight Championship from Ernesto Espana in March 1980.

Steward also works for HBO as a boxing analyst. He has also perform boxing trainer bit roles in movies ("The Fighter" (2010) and "Ocean's Eleven" (2001)) and television shows.

Boxers with whom Steward is most closely associated:

Johnathon Banks
Leeonzer Barber
Jesse Benavides
Gaby Canizales
Thomas Hearns
Anthony Jones
Hilmer Kenty
Wladimir Klitschko
Lennox Lewis
Gerald McClellan
Milton McCrory
Michael Moorer
Jimmy Paul
Duane Thomas
Tony Tucker
John David Jackson

Boxers trained briefly by Steward:

Henry Akinwande
Dennis Andries
Mark Breland
David Braxton
Julio Cesar Chavez
Kermit Cintron
Oscar De La Hoya
Jeff Fenech
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Naseem Hamed
Vivian Harris
Lindell Holmes
Evander Holyfield (for 2nd Bowe fight)
Vitali Klitschko
Andy Lee
Oliver McCall (for 1st Lewis fight)
Mike McCallum
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Welcome Ncita
Andrew Murray (Guyana)
Aaron Pryor
Lucia Rijker
Graciano Rocchigiani
Leon Spinks
Jermain Taylor
Vincent Boulware
Miguel Cotto
Chad Dawson
Carlos Alberto Hernandez
 
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