Emanuel Steward trained a number of world champions throughout his Hall of Fame career but one man stood out above the rest.<\/p>\n
Steward is widely regarded as one of the best trainers of all time<\/a>, coaching a number of elite fighters at the iconic Kronk Gym<\/a>, including the likes of Lennox Lewis<\/a> and Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>.<\/p>\n Neither of those men were deemed to be Steward\u2019s best ever fighter though, as before sadly passing away in 2012, he told East End Boxing<\/a> that Thomas Hearns was the greatest boxer he ever worked with.<\/p>\n \u201cNot only was Tommy the best fighter I ever worked with, he was also the most exciting. For me, climbing in the ring whenever Tommy fought, it was just so exciting. Tommy was very special.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was probably the closest reflection to my own style of fighting. With Tommy, he had so many outstanding qualities it\u2019s hard to list just one \u2013 but he was so dedicated.<\/p>\n \u201cTommy worked so hard in the gym. If I told him, \u2018Tommy, today you spar 20 rounds.\u2019 He\u2019d say \u2018Okay.\u2019 That\u2019s just the way he was \u2013 dedicated.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearns was the first boxer in history to win world titles in five divisions from welterweight to light heavyweight, with Steward a key part of that success.<\/p>\n \u2018The Hitman\u2019 was a member of the legendary \u2018Four Kings\u2019<\/a> alongside fellow greats Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a>, Marvin Hagler<\/a> and Roberto Duran<\/a>, with the fighters involved in epic battles against one another throughout the 1980s.<\/p>\n Hearns competed for the last time in February 2006, with his final record standing at 61 wins from his 67 professional fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emanuel Steward trained a number of world champions throughout his Hall of Fame career but one man stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-559845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}