Trainer Angelo Dundee tapes Muhammad Ali´s hands during a training session in London in 1966. (AP file photo)
Trainer Angelo Dundee tapes Muhammad Ali's hands during a training session in London in 1966. (AP file photo)
Leonard recalls Dundee's zest for life
LOS ANGELES - It wasn't just the words - "You're blowing it, son!" - that Sugar Ray Leonard heard as he peered into the wise, aged eyes of trainer Angelo Dundee more than 30 years ago.
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You never had to ask Angelo Dundee where he was from. Through all his long life, the countless hours spent in perspiration-scented gyms, the globetrotting glory days with Muhammad Ali, the twilight years as an ambassador for a sport that badly needed one, he never shed South Philly.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Through the countless hours spent in perspiration-scented gyms and globetrotting glory days with Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee never shed South Philly.
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Angelo Dundee, trainer of Ali, dies at 90
Associated Press
Angelo Dundee, 90, the brilliant motivator from South Philadelphia who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to victory in his biggest bout, died Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.
 
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Legendary boxing trainer Angelo Dundee dies
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANGELO DUNDEE, the brilliant motivator who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to victory in his biggest bout, died yesterday in Tampa, Fla. He was 90.
Philly boxing manager Angelo Dundee dies at 90
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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