Muhammad Ali Special, Part 2: With Sugar Ray Leonard and Bob Arum
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Ringer
4.8 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is part two of Muhammad Ali podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | So we're going to pick it back up with sugar red lenders who gets into working with |
| 0:18.0 | Angelo Dundee a little on his career bringing a full circle with the health scares for |
| 0:22.0 | all fighters and legendary promoter Bob Aaron on his years with Muhammad Ali. |
| 0:34.0 | What's your best memory of of Dundee who I always love in the Ali stories and how he seemed |
| 0:40.0 | to be the one. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't want to say he's the only one sugar ray but he felt like he always was thinking of Ali |
| 0:47.0 | first. He didn't want him fighting listed. He was like he's not ready. He's not ready. |
| 0:53.0 | It felt like Dundee in a very complicated business always seemed to have a simple |
| 1:00.0 | mind to this to it that was beneficial to the fighter. If that's fair for me to say, I mean |
| 1:04.0 | that's kind of my observation of it removed. |
| 1:08.0 | You know what separated from my standpoint was separated Angelo Dundee from most trainers |
| 1:17.0 | is that he was so calm and collective and a lot of stuff takes place in that corner. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean as far as you know you come back after a tough round your trainer has to be calm and |
| 1:32.0 | it can be shouted and screaming. But then against some fighters do need that they want |
| 1:39.0 | that they need to get pushed up. Come on, come on. You lose him because Angelo said the |
| 1:44.0 | perfect sound bite. You're blown it's on your Blondin. He said just but it was calm. |
| 1:49.0 | Right. It was calm. He said great. You're blown it's on your Blondin. It was with the |
| 1:54.0 | Tommy Harris fight. The first time he heard it's by I should say. |
| 1:58.0 | And I mean he said the right thing and I knew exactly what he meant. And I went out there |
| 2:04.0 | the next round and I did what I have to do. |
| 2:09.0 | Is that your favorite corner story because I could I could follow up like what else you got? |
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