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2023

STEVEN FITCH WAS BORN FEBRUARY 25 1956 IN CLEVELAND OHIO. HE ATTENDED JOHN HAY HIGH SCHOOL AND LATER ENLISTED INTO THE UNITED STATES ARMY. AFTER SERVING HIS COUNTRY, STEVEN DECIDED TO TAKE UP BOXING WHERE HE FOUND HIS CALLING AS A BOXING TRAINER. STEVEN HAD SUCH A PASSION FOR THE SPORT THAT HE WAS NAMED CROCODILE THE MASTER MOTIVATOR. HIS FEARLESSNESS AND FEROCIOUS INSIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING OF THIS SPORT LED HIM TO TRAIN SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL FIGHTERS SUCH AS IBF AND WBO JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT ZAB JUDAH AND THE FORMER HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION IRON MIKE TYSON. STEVEN HAD ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE HOWEVER HIS THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE ALSO LED HIM TO STUDY THE NATION OF ISLAM. PROCEEDING HIM IN DEATH: HIS GRANDMOTHER LILLIE GHEE JOHNSON HIS MOTHER LILLIE M FITCH HARDMAN, HIS SISTER JANET TAYLOR AND HIS NIECE BRIANA J HARDMAN. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY HIS TWO SONS DARCEL HOLLINGSHEAD AND MALIK FITCH, TWO GRAND CHILDREN DIOR HOLLINGSHEAD AND DJ HOLLINGSHEAD, HIS BROTHER MARVIN FITCH (DONNA) HIS SISTERS RUTH HARVEY AND BRIDGETTE HARDMAN, HIS NEPHEWS RAYMOND MARCELLOUS TAYLOR (KIZZY), LARRY HARVEY III, AND RUFUS HARVEY, HIS NIECES BRITTINY HARDMAN AND LAUREN HARVEY ONE GREAT NEPHEW KINGSTON SMITH ALONG WITH A HOST OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS.