Well, SugarHill is 49 and the accolades are coming, whether he likes them or not. Pain and struggle sustain him, push him to greater heights, make him hungrier for the next challenge. Just like his uncle, he would prefer the positives to glance off his sides, and swallow the nails. SugarHill Steward embraces his famous uncle Emanuel’s shadow and is now beginning to make a big name for himself. SugarHill pushed me to knock him out late.” At the end there he told me, ‘Get your jab working, only the big dogs pull it out late on.’ It was edge of the seat stuff and could’ve gone either way. That’s when the 33-year-old Brit laid a bomb on his unsuspecting trainer with: “I need to thank my trainer. SugarHill Steward absorbed so much of his late legendary uncle Emanuel Steward, the beloved Hall of Fame trainer, he’s evolving into him.Ī few weeks ago, SugarHill was plopped down with a gleaming smile on his face and his belly hanging out next to The Ring/WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury after the “Gypsy King’s” historic demolition of Deontay Wilder. Each time he tapes his fighter’s hands, he instinctively stops where he would stop. He’ll dab a little Vaseline on his fighter’s eyelids with his index finger, without a drop ever touching the gloves. Close your eyes and if you listen long enough, you’ll hear that professorial, timeless voice again, with its staccato cadence wrapped in a slightly deeper tone that punches out every word.
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