I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Steward began an amateur boxing career there. He was forced to abandon a professional career due to his family's economic situation and began working as an electrical lineman. The long talks about boxing the world and life itself.

His heavyweight fighters had a record of 34-2-1 combined in title fights. Emanuel Steward (July 7 1944 – October 25 2012) was an American boxer trainer and commentator for HBO Boxing.