Notable Pacific Northwest boxers (non-heavyweight)
also - steve 2 pound forbes -
david banks - contender
clayton hires fought mostly out of denver but finished his career in portland and still lives here now after 20 something yrs working at the post office,had he had better management he could have been a real force in boxing,
another northwest manager was mike motormouth morton,
mike passed awat few yrs ago,
walter wright - contender
sugar ray seals - 76 olympian
leo randolph - 76 olympion
thats off the top of my head let me think about who else
david banks - contender
clayton hires fought mostly out of denver but finished his career in portland and still lives here now after 20 something yrs working at the post office,had he had better management he could have been a real force in boxing,
another northwest manager was mike motormouth morton,
mike passed awat few yrs ago,
walter wright - contender
sugar ray seals - 76 olympian
leo randolph - 76 olympion
thats off the top of my head let me think about who else
Seales and Randolph were already mentioned but Forbes is a good addition.babyhuey wrote:also - steve 2 pound forbes -
david banks - contender
clayton hires fought mostly out of denver but finished his career in portland and still lives here now after 20 something yrs working at the post office,had he had better management he could have been a real force in boxing,
another northwest manager was mike motormouth morton,
mike passed awat few yrs ago,
walter wright - contender
sugar ray seals - 76 olympian
leo randolph - 76 olympion
thats off the top of my head let me think about who else
Motor Mouth had several notables including Andy Kendall and Ray Lampkin managing them to tilte shots. Later he signed national amateur champions Alex DeLucia and Andy Minsker but neither developed under his tuteledge
actjac wrote:Seales and Randolph were already mentioned but Forbes is a good addition.babyhuey wrote:also - steve 2 pound forbes -
david banks - contender
clayton hires fought mostly out of denver but finished his career in portland and still lives here now after 20 something yrs working at the post office,had he had better management he could have been a real force in boxing,
another northwest manager was mike motormouth morton,
mike passed awat few yrs ago,
walter wright - contender
sugar ray seals - 76 olympian
leo randolph - 76 olympion
thats off the top of my head let me think about who else
Motor Mouth had several notables including Andy Kendall and Ray Lampkin managing them to tilte shots. Later he signed national amateur champions Alex DeLucia and Andy Minsker but neither developed under his tuteledge
i still see alot of these guys around the amateur circuit
Leo Randolph....Ray Lampkin still coaches his nephew marcus pernell,
Thad Spencer has been said to burn a few brideges, but he was nice when i met him
Guy Villegas was one of my amateur coaches,
i talked to 2pound few days ago, we all know what hes doing ....
and the moyers...they seem like there anti boxing or something,
there money earned from boxing was used to hepl build portland oregon
with money from boxing...but the moyer family seem like
they are anti boxing... amateur or pro ...i dont get it.
and i have never met or seen andy minsker, although i know people who know him i think hes bitter about something related to boxing, he never comes around.... i believe andy minsker would have been a serious threat in the pro's but he had a serious problems with his right hand,
that was his downfall, andy lost to meldrick taylor for the olympic spot ,
so just about any other team..andy would have had a great shot of making the olympic team... its sad, because now portland is DEAD
when it comes to boxing... if not for the indian casinos where would be no boxing period...and it rains all the time...??....you would have thought boxing would be the sport of all up here..??
OH MAN,...
i almost forgot Dick Wagner, you said non heavys...but dick was such a cool guy i has to put his name out there....dick passed away a few yrs ago, but he always came around, a little punchy,
but Dick was a real cool guy,
he lived about 2 miles from the house i grew up in,
Dick had a fight with lamotta and 2 with floyd patterson,
patterson talks about his first fight with wagner, in floyds autobio,
victory over myself,
floyd said after the wagner fight dick hurt me so bad to the body
that i had to eat soup for a month...lol...dick was a really good guy.
dick would tell me the same storys over and over again....lol....
dick said - "when i fought jake lamotta i took the train,"
"i sat down on the train on way to the fight,
and low and behold... on the same train
4 rows up was jake lamotta..."
- dick would look at me and say....
"you know what the worst part was..??"
-and dick would wait for me to say
"what was the worst part..?"
- then dick would answer...
"the guy sitting right next to him..."
then i would reply...
"who was sitting next to him..?"
again dick - "you know who was sitting right next to him..."
-and again a long pause...then i answer....
"who"
- dick would reply....
"the guy who was refereeing our fight"
....lol....
dick was a great story teller....even thought we went thru the same story over and over again i felt like the first time hearing it everytime he told it i would go along with it... i miss that guy.
hey actjac..
you live around here, if you do.. are you involved with amateur boxing....because if your not.. we are in "SERIOUS NEED" of boxing people to be refs judges, timekeepers ect...
let me know if your interested or if you can refer us to
anyone who is.
thanks