Emmanuel Stewart Dead at 68

Emmanuel Stewart Now Finally Has Gone Home

After working with several world champions at his fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit along as being a respected television commentator, the Top trainer and former amateur boxer Emanuel Steward, at 68 finally left us. He died on Thursday in Chicago hospital.

"He has passed - he's gone home," Steward's sister Diane Steward-Jones told the Detroit Free Press by phone. "He was in no pain, and we sang to him, as well as did the doctors present. He had loved ones around him."

He was having a “complications through surgery" for diverticulitis, Steward's girlfriend Anita Ruiz, who is also executive director of the Kronk Gym Foundation, shared on Reuters.

Most recently, Steward trained heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko before he was forced to step aside because of an undisclosed illness.

"It is not often that a person in any line of work gets a chance to work with a legend, well I was privileged enough to work with one for almost a decade," Ukrainian Klitschko said in a statement.

"I will miss our time together. The long talks about boxing, the world, and life itself. Most of all I will miss our friendship.

"My team and I will carry on with the goals we had set while Emanuel was with us because that is exactly what Emanuel would have wanted ... we will accomplish these goals in his honor."

An inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame, Steward also worked for many years as part of HBO's commentary team on fights.

"There are no adequate words to describe the enormous degree of sadness and loss we feel at HBO Sports with the tragic passing of Manny Steward," Ken Hershman, president of HBO Sports, said in a statement.

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