THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANGELO DUNDEE

ANGELO DUNDEE BOXING JOURNEY:  By Brian Zelley

Introduction:
The following link is one of thousands of stories about the
passing of famous boxing trainer ANGELO DUNDEE.
One of the important stories was the time a young Cassius Clay
came to a hotel to visit Dundee's boxer WILLIE PASTRANO.
The story has been told with several versions, but the important
point it started the team of Angelo Dundee and  Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali.
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/01/3404747/ali-trainer-angelo-dundee-dies.html

In another story, I tell of meeting Muhammad Ali in 1972, and part of that story
was visiting him at his penthouse suite in the Georgia Hotel in Vancouver
and knocking on his door, and it was after I mentioned the time he
visited Willie Pastrano in a hotel, that he smiled and let us enter his room.

Manny Sobral meets the greatest Muhammad Ali

Manny meets the greatest  - story of MANNY SOBRAL meeting MUHAMMAD ALI

from the LANGLEY ADVANCE, the artickle touches on Sobral being thrilled to meet Ali at an October function relating to a movie Facing Ali.  It also touches on current amateur boxer ROBERT COUZENS
and 1988 Canadian Olmpic team.  the one name mentioned was LENNOX LEWIS.

ANOTHER STORY BACK IN TIME 1972 - by brian zelley

Back in 1972, a number of us got to meet MUHAMMAD ALI

Not only did I see him training at the old North West Eagles boxing gym in Vancouver but,
two of us Zelley and fellow co-founder of the Nanaimo Boxing Club DANNY WRIGHT visited Ali in his place at the Georgie Hotel.  Ali was training for his but with George Chuvalo.  Also, we  met Houston welterweight MANUEL (Manny) GONZALEZ who had previously  a non-title win over EMILE GRIFFITH.