Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee has died in Florida at the age of 90, just weeks after attending the birthday party of his most famous charge, Muhammad Ali.
Dundee was hospitalised last week with a blood clot and although he spent some time in rehabilitation in hospital he was allowed home to his Tampa apartment, where he died on Wednesday night.
His son Jimmy Dundee told ABC News in the US, “He was coming along good yesterday and then he started to have breathing problems. My wife was with him at the time, thank God, and called and said he can’t breathe.
“We all got over there. All the grandkids were there. He didn’t want to go slowly. It was the way he wanted to go. He did everything he wanted to do.”
Angelo also took charge of the great middleweight Sugar Ray Leonard but it was his association with Muhammad Ali for which he will be best remembered, having been in Ali’s corner for the vast majority of The Greatest’s career.
He attended Ali’s 70th birthday celebrations in Louisville, Kentucky on 14 January last.
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