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(43) Emanuel Steward Interview (footage from Born and Bred) - YouTube
A man who I always looked up to.
Boxing out of Detroit was tough. Not just the Kronk guys but you had Johnson, Brewer, Crowell, Butzell. I had to fight guys from each Detroit recreation center. They were all well trained, tough boxers.
But back to Kronk.... When you see your opponent bouncing in his corner in those gold trunks, before the bout, you knew that you had to be sharp.
I always saw Emanuel at the shows down at Cobo, he was the man.
One of his boxers was always coming down to our amateur gym, he'd work with me and I looked up to this guy.
I got a call one day, it was Jerry from Kronk. He was a PR guy for the gym. He wanted me to go to Myrtle Beach with him and his family to keep his son sharp (sparring), he had won a national or something. That trip was great, Jerry had me laughing from the time that they picked me up until a week later when they dropped me off, the guy was a riot! Jerry asked me to join Kronk, but I had a job after school and then went to boxing after. I got a job because I knew that I wanted a car when I was old enough and knew that my parents couldn't afford to buy me one. Kronk trained when I was at work, so I had to turn him down.
I remember when I was refereeing. I reffed a fight with a Kronk fighter. There was something that was catching my attention with the transgressions of the Kronk fighter, if I saw it I called it. Emanual came up to me and told me that I did a good job in there. Getting a compliment from him....... sheet, I felt on top of the world.
That man built a house of champions, in my opinion the best trainer that there has been.
He will never be forgotten and the brilliance that he brought to Detroit boxing will live forever in the record books.
RIP Emanual Steward, you will never be forgotten.
If you noticed in the video, the ring ropes were very loose. That's exactly how he liked them. ...............Rockin'
A man who I always looked up to.
Boxing out of Detroit was tough. Not just the Kronk guys but you had Johnson, Brewer, Crowell, Butzell. I had to fight guys from each Detroit recreation center. They were all well trained, tough boxers.
But back to Kronk.... When you see your opponent bouncing in his corner in those gold trunks, before the bout, you knew that you had to be sharp.
I always saw Emanuel at the shows down at Cobo, he was the man.
One of his boxers was always coming down to our amateur gym, he'd work with me and I looked up to this guy.
I got a call one day, it was Jerry from Kronk. He was a PR guy for the gym. He wanted me to go to Myrtle Beach with him and his family to keep his son sharp (sparring), he had won a national or something. That trip was great, Jerry had me laughing from the time that they picked me up until a week later when they dropped me off, the guy was a riot! Jerry asked me to join Kronk, but I had a job after school and then went to boxing after. I got a job because I knew that I wanted a car when I was old enough and knew that my parents couldn't afford to buy me one. Kronk trained when I was at work, so I had to turn him down.
I remember when I was refereeing. I reffed a fight with a Kronk fighter. There was something that was catching my attention with the transgressions of the Kronk fighter, if I saw it I called it. Emanual came up to me and told me that I did a good job in there. Getting a compliment from him....... sheet, I felt on top of the world.
That man built a house of champions, in my opinion the best trainer that there has been.
He will never be forgotten and the brilliance that he brought to Detroit boxing will live forever in the record books.
RIP Emanual Steward, you will never be forgotten.
If you noticed in the video, the ring ropes were very loose. That's exactly how he liked them. ...............Rockin'