He’s 80 years old but Gentleman Jimmy Glenn, amiable proprietor of classic Manhattan “boxing bar” Jimmy’s Corner, still looks like he could stand toe to toe and swap punches with former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson.
Patterson, who Muhammad Ali dubbed “The Rabbit,” is long gone but Glenn is still hustling. When he’s on the road working fights, usually as a cutman extraordinaire, wife Swanny takes the command post at the Times Square saloon.
Glenn jokes that promoters Don King and Bob Arum, both of whom he’s cordial with, “have to catch up to him” when it comes to birthdays. King and Arum are a year or two behind Glenn in that department depending on whose bio you read.
Since Glenn got a bird’s eye view of Antonio Margarito when he was Sugar Shane Mosley’s cutman on that fateful night in
