did angelo dundee know how to box????

Angelo Dundee was a former welterweight during his army days.


Angelo Dundee, who is 43, was born in South Philadelphia, the second youngest of seven children, under the name of Angelo Mirena Jr. Angelo Mirena Sr., who, with his wife, came from Cosenza in Calabria and laid track for a living, was originally Angelo Mirenda. "The d dropped dead somewhere," says Angelo Jr. "I taught my daddy how to write his name. I can imitate his signature today. Certain things stick out. 'Go back and dot the i, Daddy. Finish the o like that.' " Angelo and brother Chris, the second oldest, took the name Dundee from brother Joe, who worked on an ash truck for the city and fought as Joe Dundee, The Fighting Ashman. " 'Joe,' I used to tell him," says Angelo, " 'call yourself, please, The Fighting Sanitation Man.' " Joe, in turn, had taken the name Dundee from the late Johnny Dundee, who won the world featherweight championship in 1923 and whose real name was Giuseppe Carrora. Joe called himself Dundee so his father wouldn't know he was fighting. "My mother was sweetness and light and my dad could lick all of us," says Angelo, who legally changed his name in 1952, when he got married.

After high school Angelo went to work in the naval aircraft factory in Philadelphia as a final-assembly test inspector on N3Ns. "I love aircraft," says Angelo. He was drafted into the Army in 1943, where he had a dozen fights without a loss. In time he became a staff sergeant in a C-47 servicing outfit in the ETO. When Angelo was discharged, he went back to work for the Navy. However, he was shifted to inspecting radar-controlled missiles. "I didn't know what I was doing," Angelo says. "It was a degrading feeling, the mechanics knowing more than me."
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I’ve always felt like Dundee was more salesman then trainer. He’d get you the fights, He had connections helped with publicity and broke the rules for you if he had to. I don’t buy that he ever built a guy from the ground up a lot of guys did the work on everyone he was involved in, but I wouldn’t say he didn’t do some important and credible stuff.

 

I wonder why they put him in the Boxing Hall of Fame, and why so MANY World Champions (18+) wanted to work with him?

https://www.boxingdaily.com/boxing-coaches/angelo-dundee/

 

No doubt he was a great corner man and knew how to handle" unique," personalities such as Ali with whom he had to be something of an amateur psychologist.
He had earned his spurs soaking up knowledge and assisting guys like Goldman ,and working with Carmen Basilio.Being the brother of promoter Chris Dundee obviously helped him a great deal too.I wouldnt put him on a par with Futch , Aercel,Blackburn,Benton,Steward or Roach,but he was a very capable guy.