Comments Thread For: Dundee: 'The cast is broken and you'll never see it again'

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Whether you’re bummed by Floyd Mayweather Jr., uncertain about Manny Pacquiao or unimpressed by Sergio Martinez… here's a little sage wisdom from Angelo Dundee.

Don't spend any time pining away for the next Muhammad Ali, Ray Leonard or Joe Louis to save the sport from its perceived (by some) doldrums, because it's not going to happen.

"That's the mistake people make," the legendary trainer said. "They keep waiting for a guy to come along who acts like and sounds like and fights like those guys, but they don't realize that every fighter and every individual is different. They all have different outlooks and they all do things in different ways.

"Once they come along, the cast is broken and you'll never see it again."

Dundee, now just a few months shy of 90, last made the rounds awhile back with the release of his latest book – "My View from the Corner: A Life in Boxing" – written with fellow Hall of Fame member Bert Sugar and featuring a foreword by his most famous in-ring charge, Ali, with whom he worked big fights from the 1960s through the 1980s. [Click Here To Read More]

[Mr. Invincible]

I disagree, a prime Roy Jones was more of a one of a kind than the fighters he's mentioned and that's a cast that was only used once and destroyed.

[Cereal]

It is basically a pointless statement. It is the same as saying 'no two people are the same'.

[MARKBNLV]

Damn you Angelo Dundee you pushed Ali into dementia go fck yourself.

[fistic flow]

Grown men make grown up choices, idiot.

[slindee3]

Damn you Angelo Dundee you pushed Ali into dementia go fck yourself.

Ali is my favorite fighter of all time and no one will come close in my opinion, but Dundee didn't push him to anything. Ali was and is his own man and called all of his own shots.

Ali does not have dementia, he has Parkinson disease. Even though boxing might have a small part to play in this, it is not the cause of what he is inflicted with. I'm sure there are millions of other fighters who have taken much worse beatings than Ali and are just fine today.

[bojangles1987]

That is the absolute truth. Every era provides its own special fighters. They are never alike, and we shouldn't expect them to be alike. There will never be another Ray Leonard, another Ali, another Hearns, another Ray Robinson. Just like once they are done there will never be another Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather.

[Gypsy John Fury]

Opening line regarding Mayweather was slightly disturbing ;-)

[King Koopa]

Ali is my favorite fighter of all time and no one will come close in my opinion, but Dundee didn't push him to anything. Ali was and is his own man and called all of his own shots.

Ali does not have dementia, he has Parkinson disease. Even though boxing might have a small part to play in this, it is not the cause of what he is inflicted with. I'm sure there are millions of other fighters who have taken much worse beatings than Ali and are just fine today.

Your avatar is beautiful, who is that?

[SluggerFan]

Opening line regarding Mayweather was slightly disturbing ;-)

How do you come to that. People are disappointed the guy is wasting his prime and not fighting. I am not a fan of the personality but I wish he was fighting, or at least was looking at possibly fighting after his legal troubles are resolved. Don't you agree?