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(August 30, 1921 – February 1, 2012)
Angelo Dundee was an American boxing trainer and cornerman. He never boxed himself, but became the most famous cornerman in the world as the trainer of Muhammad Ali.
Hired to train the then 18-year-old Cassius Clay soon after the young Kentuckian’s gold medal triumph at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Dundee remained continually at Ali’s side right up until his crushing, one-sided defeat by the rising Larry Holmes in October, 1980.
Dundee’s association with Ali tended to obscure the rest of what was a remarkable resume: he worked with 15 other world champions, among them Sugar Ray Leonard, José Napoles, George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio and Luis Rodriguez.
Angelo Dundee was inducted into boxing’s International Hall of Fame in 1994.
With his wife, Helen, he had a son and a daughter.
Dundee died in Tampa, Florida, a month after attending Ali's 70th birthday party in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 2012.
RIP
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