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\u201cMr. Snyder writes lyrically, and his research appears to be impeccable: It\u2019s hard to imagine that anyone has slipped through his interview net\u2026When Bundini died…Ali was abroad and unable to attend the funeral, but he sent flowers with a card that read: \u2018You made me the greatest.\u2019 Many members of the boxing fraternity, George Foreman and Larry Holmes included, think that Ali wasn\u2019t exaggerating. Mr. Snyder\u2019s affecting portrait will convince the rest of us as well.\u201d\u2015Gordon Marino, Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Bundini was the source of Muhammad Ali\u2019s spirit. I wouldn\u2019t even call him a trainer or cornerman, he was more important than a trainer. Ali had an unmeasurable determination and he got it from Bundini.\u201d\u2015George Foreman<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you talk about Bundini, you are talking about the mouthpiece of Muhammad Ali, an extension of Muhammad Ali\u2019s spirit. There would never have been a Muhammad Ali without Drew Bundini Brown.\u201d\u2015Khalilah Camacho-Ali (Muhammad Ali\u2019s second wife)<\/p>\n
\u201cBundini gave Ali his entire heart. Bundini played a very important part in Ali\u2019s career. He was Ali\u2019s right hand man. He knew exactly how to motivate him. He was the one guy who could really get him up to train and get him ready to fight.\u201d\u2015Larry Holmes<\/p>\n
Fifty years after he coined the iconic phrase Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Drew \u201cBundini\u201d Brown remains one of boxing\u2019s most mysterious and misunderstood figures. His impact on the sport and the culture at large is undeniable. Cornerman and confidant to two of the greatest fighters ever\u2015Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali\u2015Brown lived an extraordinary American life.<\/p>\n
After a poverty-stricken childhood in Jim Crow Florida, Brown came of age traveling the world as a naval steward. On being discharged, he settled in New York City and spent wild nights in the jazz joints of Harlem, making a name for himself as the charismatic street philosopher and poet some called \u201cFast Black.\u201d He married a white woman from a family of Orthodox Jewish immigrants, in dramatic defiance of 1950s cultural norms, and later appeared in films such as the blaxploitation classic, Shaft.<\/p>\n
In Bundini, Todd Snyder digs deep into Brown\u2019s expansive story, revealing not only how he became Muhammad Ali\u2019s \u201chype man,\u201d but also, as boxing\u2019s greatest motivator, how he became a model for others who seek to inspire, in any endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bundini: Don’t Believe The Hype by Todd D. Snyder See more and buy at :- www.amazon.co.uk\/Bundini-Believe-Todd-Snyder Published by www.hamilcarpubs.com \u201cMr. Snyder writes lyrically, and his research appears to be impeccable: It\u2019s hard to imagine that anyone has slipped through his interview net\u2026When Bundini died…Ali was abroad and unable to attend the funeral, but he sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":642338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642542,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642335\/revisions\/642542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}