Clarence George
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The Galento Files
?What happened to fighters with class, like Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, or my old friend, Rocky Graziano? The fighters today are a bunch of cream puffs?? ?The truth is out there.??The X-Files…
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Joe Simonich: The Grizzly
Simonich?s most formidable opponent was the legendary Mickey Walker, whom he met at the Arena in Philly on November 1, 1926? ?Like Ketchel, Simonich was a hard puncher, always aggressive, and as…
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Clarence Brown: Ham-and-Egger
I don?t know when or where Clarence Brown was born, or died, nor do I know what he did after leaving the ring. Only his record serves as his epitaph? ?Nothing helps…
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Eddie McGrath: By the Beautiful Sea
McGrath appeared before the New York State Crime Commission where he took the Fifth 115 times, including when asked who his mother was? ?They are fireproofing the dago for tomorrow.??Andrew ?Squint? Sheridan…
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Rocky Marciano: A Crown of Gold
Rocky Marciano last fought on September 21, 1955, his sixth title defense, knocking out Archie Moore, ?The most unappreciated fighter in the world?? ?Boxing, of course, still has its fans, but it?s…
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Reuben Vargas: Knockout Power in Either Hand
?There is philosophy in everything?including prizefighting. Life itself is a battle. It?s dog eat dog; the survival of the fittest; kill or be killed?? ?There is philosophy in everything?including prizefighting. Because, as…
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Emmett Rocco: The Nylon Jungle
Something of a Rocky Marciano lookalike, Emmett Rocco, the ?Tarzan of the Connoquenessing,? fought out of his hometown from 1925 to 1933? ?By all accounts Rocco was someone you could count on.??Jeff…
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Cowboy Henry: One Little Act
A frequenter of the brothel where she worked, Cowboy fell in love with the midnight-haired beauty and they were married? ?I always knew there was a God running the show. But I…
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And in This Corner: Keene Simmons
Along with Sugar Ray Robinson, Keene Simmons trained out of Harlem?s Salem-Crescent Gym and Athletic Club? ?Whenever he hit you, wherever he hit you, he hurt you.??Keene Simmons on Rocky Marciano Along…
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Bud Gorman: A Decent Heavyweight
?A ring great of the ?20s,? according to the Asbury Park Press, Bud was ranked fifth by The Ring in 1925, the only year he made the Top 10? ?Bud Gorman was…
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Dick Gilbert: Once-Stopped but Never Shy
His most notable opponent was the great Jack Dempsey, against whom he fought on October 16, 1916, at the Salt Lake Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah? ?Many women were present in…
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The Brothers Forbes
Both brothers fought the formidable Oscar Gardner, aka The Omaha Kid (despite being born in and fighting out of Minneapolis)? ?The boxers today do not know how to fight.??Harry Forbes, November 22,…
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Coley Wallace: Rocking Rocky
Working as a bouncer at the Palm Gardens on West 52nd Street, he was stabbed in the back ?as he tried to break up a fight between several Jamaicans?? ?The career of…
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Dial M for Mastrian
Norman Mastrian ? like Kid Riviera and Joe Barboza, to name just a couple ? is yet another boxer who went murderously wrong? ?She managed to get out of the tub, so…
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The Bearcat Wrights: Like Father, Like Son
Senior must have been pleased that his son?s last bout ? which took place on May 13, 1974, at the Charlotte Coliseum ? was at least some sort of boxing match? ?My…
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Book Review: Madame Bey?s: Home to Boxing Legends
The question isn?t so much who trained at Madame Bey?s in Chatham Township, New Jersey, from 1923 to 1942, but who didn?t? ?I am swamped with remembrances on Mother?s Day.??Madame Bey I?ve…
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Abie Bain: Requiem for a Middleweight
Abie Bain must be considered among the most durable and toughest Jews to ever fight out of the Garden State? ?Do you know why I talk so funny? Because I?ve been hit…
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Harry Smith: The Harlem Thunderbolt
Despite The Ring ranking him seventh in 1929, third in 1930, and sixth in 1931, Smith never got a shot at middleweight champion Mickey Walker? ?Harry Smith is the worst kind of…
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Nev Campbell: Yours for Oldtime Boxing
There?s a dearth of information on this welterweight of yore. An online search brings up Neve Campbell far more than her Nev counterpart? ?No horse-shoes allowed in gloves under six-ounces.??Nev Campbell Although…
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Wallace Cross: Sparring Partner and Pallbearer
Galento died of a heart attack on July 22, 1979, just three months before Wallace Cross was made a fellow inductee of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame? ?It?ll be just…