Chris Dundee 1998 Deaths

Chris Dundee

boxing promoter who promoted eight world heavyweight championship fights and helped put Miami Beach on the boxing map; promoted in Richmond, Washington and New York before setting up headquarters at Fifth Avenue Gym in Miami Beach where Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali trained; organized the bout in which Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight title with a seventh-round TKO of Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964; elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994; older brother of the trainer Angelo; cause of death not given