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When it comes to training champions, Steward's it

By Thomas Gerbasi
MaxBoxing.com

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

1962. Sixteen years before Jermain Taylor was even born, a bantamweight named Emanuel Steward -- Taylor's current trainer -- was developing the mind-set and techniques, perhaps unknowingly, that he would one day employ to lead the likes of Thomas Hearns, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Oscar De La Hoya and Wladimir Klitschko to some of their biggest victories. Steward He wasn't thinking of being the man outside the ropes and in the corner, though. Steward, a West Virginia native who spe ...

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