Thursday, 25 October 2012

UPDATE 1-Boxing-Top trainer Steward dies at 68 (Reuters)

* Fabled trainer Steward dies in Chicago hospital * Trained several world champions in his Detroit gym (Adds Klitschko reaction, paras 7-9, further detail) Oct 25 (Reuters) - Top trainer and former amateur boxer Emanuel Steward, who worked with several world champions at his fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit and was also a respected television commentator, died in a Chicago hospital on Thursday aged 68. "He has passed - he's gone home," Steward's sister Diane Steward-Jones told the Detroit Free Press by phone. "He was in no pain, and we sang to him, as well as did the doctors present. ...

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