Jeffrey Sussman
11 articles · Boxing.com
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Boxing?s Baddest Man
Frankie Carbo enjoyed killing people; it was his profession even after he got into boxing. He spent 20 months in prison for killing a cab driver. Shortly after his release, he went…
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The Rise of Rocky Graziano
His father was an alcoholic and failed boxer; his mother was a schizophrenic, who spent time in mental hospitals? By the late 1940s, Rocky Graziano and Frank Sinatra were the two most…
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Bummy Davis
?I saw Bummy actually bump against Abe Reles on the street. You know who Reles was? He was known as Kid Twist for the way he killed people?.? Bummy Davis was shot…
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Lou Stillman & His Famous Filthy Gym
?The golden age of prizefighting was the age of bad food, bad air, bad sanitation, and no sunlight. I keep the place like this for the fighters? own good?? I was a…
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Boxing?s Original Promoter
To further advance the popularity of boxing, he went on to build the Boston Madison Square Garden, later known as the Boston Garden? The name Tex is usually associated with Wild West,…
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Two Cops & A Boxer
Joe and Anthony invited me to attend the fights with them. It would be a fight between Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson? Joe, the cop, came home one day with a…
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The Messenger?s Left Hook
?When I turned eighteen, they brought me back ta the city and introduced me ta a guy named Frankie Carbo. Ever hear of him?? I met Walker back in the 1980s when…
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The Cutman
We chatted about our days and nights as waiters, the women he had serviced at the hotel, and his small bedroom in his grandparents? apartment? I met Doc when we first worked…
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A Boxer?s Second Chance
?He may get you a lot of fights; you may make money out of the deal. But you?ll be all his. He?ll own you, body and soul?? A man I?ll call Keith…
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Golden Gloves Chump
He was as steady and reliable as the old Third Avenue El going south to north, north to south. And numerous bars became his clients? If you saw Will on the street…
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The Boxer
Fighters? dreams are like kites whose strings have been cut. Those dreams dance, dive, and loop in the air, then disappear? Boxing is a brutal sport. I?ve seen countless fighters whose faces…