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Dundee assisting Beristain train De La Hoya for Pacquiao fight
By Antonio Gonzalez
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 28 - 11 - 2008

There's a picture that Angelo Dundee holds sacred in his retirement home in this suburb along Tampa Bay.
He's pictured in black and white, wearing a white collared shirt and skinny tie some 40-plus years ago, grooming a young Muhammad Ali. His arm is draped over the heavyweight's left shoulder, and Ali is posing in a fighter's stance.
Forgive the 87-year-old Dundee for looking to the past; he has a lot of great memories and likes to reminisce. But given one more chance to help a big fighter win a big fight - and lend his own star power to boxing at the same time - he couldn't resist.
Dundee is assisting Nacho Beristain in training Oscar De La Hoya for his Dec. 6 fight with Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Dundee will not work the corner on fight night, but he's been reviewing tapes and offering his opinions on strategy and technique to De La Hoya.
Lending help for a major fight for the first time in years - and maybe the last time in his career - has Dundee invigorated. “It's a thrill. I'm going back to see the people I've seen all my life,” Dundee said. “It's not like I'm running into a brick wall. I've done this before. I've been in a lot of corners, you know?” Just a few.
Dundee was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994. He trained 15 world champions, including Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, Carmen Basilio and Jose Napoles. He worked major boxing scenes with his promoter brother Chris Dundee, with stops at the famed Stillman's Gym in New York and Miami Beach's 5th Street Gym.
“He knows everything,” said Basilio, the 81-year-old former world welterweight champion. “When Angelo goes, it will be as if the boxing library burns down.”
Dundee now wears thick glasses, is stocky and bald. His once pale skin is full of wrinkles and blemishes, so much so the deep scar on the right side of his neck - from surgery to repair a clogged artery about four weeks ago - almost goes unnoticed. He spends much of his time telling stories of his boxing career and signing autographs of that 1962 photo with Ali for fans across the world.
Dundee moved to the Tampa suburb of Oldsmar last year to be closer to his two children after his wife of more than 50 years, Helen, fell ill with lung problems. Her health has been a constant struggle.
Boxing also is fighting for survival.
The De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight is being billed as the biggest boxing event of the year, though few other than the hardcore fans have much interest.
The 35-year-old De La Hoya is well past his prime. The Golden Boy has seemingly become the Golden Guy. And though the fight will produce a major pay day, it is lacking attention in mainstream sports. By bringing in Dundee, besides his knowledge, the fight adds some name recognition.
Dundee learned to tape hands and handle cuts as a corner man more than six decades ago, building his knowledge by watching and learning. Word of his expertise spread, and seasoned fighters lined up to have Dundee in their corner.
The aging trainer has long been a source to get over-the-hill fighters back on top. He helped Ali reclaim the heavyweight title in 1974 over Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle” fought in Zaire. He later helped Foreman capture the title at age 45 over Michael Moorer.
But how does boxing make a comeback? “We need more American fighters,” Dundee said. “The public needs to know who the guy is that's fighting. What the heck are they going to go to the fight for if it's some Russian guy?”


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