He suffered an attack after celebrating the 70th birthday of `The Greatest´ Dundee, the man who modeled Muhammad Ali in the 5th Street Gym in Miami and became world champion, dies at age 90. It was one of the most reputed technical boxing and fundamental part of any victory, and before Cooper at Highbury or Foreman in Kinshasa.
They were the last words famous Dundee Angelo Mirena, a son of Italian immigrants was born in Philadelphia on 30/08/1921: "We can not go to the gym to train, my kid (my kid). But what I can do is to you are sure that I love you ". That said Dundee on 17 January at his favorite pupil, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, when Ali celebrated his 70th birthday in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
On the flight back to his home in Louisville, Tampa (Florida), Angelo Dundee suffered a cerebral hemorrhage no longer recovered. And yesterday died in Oldsmar, a suburb of Tampa, surrounded by his two sons and the rest of his family. "Our whole family was with my father. His life was wonderful," summed up his son Jimmy.
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After the death of his wife, Helen, Angelo Dundee moved to Tampa to not go too far from Miami, where in the 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, his mastery as a coach forged the legend of Ali: The Greatest. In September 2010, Ali returned to Dundee and 5th Street Miami Beach to reopen the old gym: there Dundee taught the then Cassius Clay (who had assisted in Rome for his Olympic title in 1960) the strategy needed to escape the blows of Sonny Liston, the Bad and Lazy Bear, the friend of those underworld Miami Beach where Angelo Dundee as well move. In addition to Ali, Dundee trained 14 other great champions. But his famous last words, January 17 in Kentucky, went to who had to be: for your favorite kid, for `The Greatest´ .
`Sugar´ Leonard and Foreman also resorted to it
When Muhammad Ali retired, Dundee fame led to him being coveted goal for the champions. Angelo went to Sugar Ray Leonard, who spurs directly to Leonard Hearns won in 14 rounds: "Sugar Ray was Ali smaller version," say Dundee Leonard. He also coached or advised Jimmy Ellis, Oscar de la Hoya, Foreman, Luis Rodriguez and Russell Crowe for Cinderella Man movie