![]() ![]() Miami was segregated in the 1960s, with black people subject to Jim Crow laws that extended across the South. When his boxer brother moved to Florida, Dundee followed, working at the gym on Miami’s Fifth Street where he trained his first champion, Willie Pastrano. “He learned their language!”īut it wasn’t just personal convention that Dundee proved so apt at upending. I got such a kick out of that one,” Jimmy Dundee, Angelo’s son, tells the Guardian. “He couldn’t get in on their secrets, but then he told me: ‘Once I learned Yiddish, I did just fine’. Keen to absorb the teachings of famed trainers like Ray Arcel and Charley Goldman, Dundee was puzzled by the coded language they’d use to assess the fighters on the bags. He initially learnt his trade as a bucket boy to legends such as Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson. He was born Angelo Mirena, but he worked under the surname Dundee – also adopted by two of his brothers – to avoid drawing attention from their parents, who did not approve of boxing. ![]()
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