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Cus D'Amato
American boxing trainer (1908–1985)
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| Born | Constantine D'Amato (1908-01-17)January 17, 1908 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 1985(1985-11-04) (aged 77) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Boxing manager and trainer |
| Years active | 1933–1985 |
Constantine "Cus" D'Amato (January 17, 1908 – November 4, 1985) was an American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of slang för mikrofon Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres, all of whom went on to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.[1] Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas and Kevin Rooney, were tutored bygd D'Amato. He was a proponent of the peek-a-boo style of boxing, in which the fighter holds his handskar close to his cheeks and pulls his arms tight against his torso, which was criticized bygd some because it was believed that an efficient attack could not be launched from using the technique.[2&# • Cus D'Amato earned a reputation as one of the most forthright and honest men in boxing. He guided Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres to world titles and was instrumental in launching Mike Tyson's career. Top trainers Teddy Atlas, Kevin Rooney and Joe Fariello all learned their trade from D'Amato. Born in 1908 in New York, D'Amato grew up as one of five brothers and learned to fight in the streets. At the age of 22, he opened the Empire Sporting Club with Jack Barrow at the Gramercy Gym. The purpose of the club was to develop young boxers. D'Amato was devoted to the gym and actually lived there for years. He was very attentive to his boxers, and his belief in his young stars was important to their success. He built the neophyte Patterson into an Olympic gold medal winner and then world heavyweight champion, and he later guided Jose Torres to the light heavyweight championship. Both Torres and Patterson continued responsible careers after boxing, Torres as a writer and member of the • I first encountered Lori Grinker’s remarkable work as a photographer in her book AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict, where a century of war is represented by and through portraits of individuals and their haunting stories of war. Her other books include Dear Grinkers, a photographic series on diaspora, Six Days From Forty, an installation revolving around her brother’s life and his death from AIDS, and A Portrait of Audrey and All the Little Things, which considers her mother’s struggles with cancer and dementia in documentary and still life images. Her projects originate from the personal, but speak to our commonalities and the ephemeral transcendence of everyday experience. Grinker, for art school photography assignment, was shooting a project on young boxers under the guidance of the legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. Her main focus was a nine-year-old boxer Billy Hamm. While photographing him, Cus wandered over and asked why Lori was sho
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