Classic American West Coast Boxing

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Jose Luis Cotero vs Davey Moore

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Eddie Perkins vs Yoshinori Takahashi

[raylawpc]

I was introduce to the liver shot back in the mid-1950s, one day at the Teamsters gym Wicho Morales dug a left hook to my liver, I was against the ropers and I couldn't move, my legs wouldn't do what I wanted them to do, it was about 30 seconds before I could move again, I can still feel that shot....

Frank, you made a very good point. A boxer will NEVER forget the first time they feel that punch, or the second or third, for that matter.

-Rick Farris



Why the "Hook to the Liver" is such a painful blow . . .

Your liver is like a filter, it filters & cleans the blood of toxins as it pumps thru the body. When a boxer lands a shot to the liver, the liver is momentarily compressed, shutting off the flow of blood for just a split second. A second later, as the punch is retracted, the liver opens up again and the blood then floods the liver, pushing collected bile & toxins directly into the stomach. This is where the pain comes from. You'll notice that for a split-second after the blow lands, the boxer will appear to freeze, a moment later the agony of the punch will overcome him and he will generally wince in pain, holding his side as he hits the canvas. It has a "delayed reaction" effect.

Now I'm no doctor, so if somebody else can explain it better, go right ahead. The bottom line is, IT'S THE MOST PAINFUL PUNCH IN BOXING!


Dr. Richard Farris, liver specialist

I can hear Tom's footsteps approaching.

What's your point, Roger?

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Good weekend for SoCal football..(UCLA..USC)

[Rick Farris]

I can hear Tom's footsteps approaching.
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What's your point, Roger?
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Tom . . . I was wondering the same thing?
However, let me credit my source of physical reaction to a left hook to the liver.
A similar explanation was used by former champ, Sean O'Grady, for one of his USA Network's TV broadcast feaures on "body punching."
I think Sean was one of the best on the air, and his explanation of little things that are very big inside the ring was unmatched by the HBO gang, any of them.
I loved when Sean put in simple English why we hate a gancho to the gut, as much as a boot in the balls.


-Rick Farris

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Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

[Rick Farris]

Jose Luis Cotero vs Davey Moore

Frank . . .

The late Davey Moore, former featherweight champ, was inducted into the WBHOF im 1986.
In 1993, Davey Moore, the late Jr. Middle Champ, was also inducted.
I believe the latter Moore's induction was inspired by his tragic accidental death.

It looked like a double induction until this year's "Honor Roll" (which will identify each by the title they held.)
The younger guys thought both were for the later Moore. Go figure?
Personally, I never considered the Jr. Middleweight that Duran destroyed as a "Hall of Famer".
The former featherweight champ? No question.


-Rick FArris

[Rick Farris]

-USC TROJANS-

[Randyman]

I can hear Tom's footsteps approaching.
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What's your point, Roger?
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Tom . . . I was wondering the same thing?
However, let me credit my source of physical reaction to a left hook to the liver.
A similar explanation was used by former champ, Sean O'Grady, for one of his USA Network's TV broadcast feaures on "body punching."
I think Sean was one of the best on the air, and his explanation of little things that are very big inside the ring was unmatched by the HBO gang, any of them.
I loved when Sean put in simple English why we hate a gancho to the gut, as much as a boot in the balls.


-Rick Farris

If my memory serves me right, and I have no reason to believe it is, Sean O'Grady was on his way to being a doctor at onetime. Tom can probably confirm this.

As for "I can hear Tom's footsteps approaching. " Like Rick, I was wondering the same thing. It went over my head.

Randy

[Randyman]

Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

Some good beer and some salsa and tortillas and you have perfect meal.

Randy D

[Rick Farris]

Eddie Perkins vs Yoshinori Takahashi

Looking back a few years . . .

Last week, I was talking to Armando Muniz on the phone.
We have a lot of WBHOF info to discuss, but I find it best to break it up once in awhile.

We'll talk about a fighter from today, say a Tim Bradley, and then I'll drop in a name that I know will get his attention, energize his spirit.
Eddie Perkins was one of the names from a conversation last week, which also led to talk of Adolf Pruitt, L.C. Morgan, Paulie Armstead, Raul Soriano,etc.
All who fought at championship level during previous days.
Mando fought most of those guys, and of course Griffith, and Napoles, Hedge Lewis, "Indian Red", Palomino, "Shot Gun" Albarado, Leonard, Ranzany, and Clyde Gray.
Mando says Gray Clyde Gray was one of his toughest foes. I agree. I opened the show that night and stayed to watch Mando win late by KO in the scheduled 12-rounder.

I bate him a bit, because opening the door to Armando Muniz's experiences with these great fighters leads to some wonderful boxing history.
His stories so often validate the tales we share here, or add another dimension to history.

Seeing the Eddie Perkins photo brought this to mind. Great boxer out of Chicago, trained by Hall of Famer, Johnny Coulon.


-Rick Farris

[Randyman]

Jeri and I drove down to the Seal Beach Pier yesterday evening to see the sunset and I got this shot.

Randy

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SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE

Every weekend I drive my wife,Maria,to Food Land Market in National City to buy her tortillas and the usual vegetables,fruit,and other Mexican grocery items that she feels are unequaled in any other part of town. She even prefers the corn tortillas at Food Land over the corn tortillas in Tijuana. I mean who's to say that you can't find better tortillas in the United States?

The market is owned buy an Arab. At least that's what everyone says. I've never seen the guy. Everyone working there is Mexican. The market gets a real workout. It's like going down to TJ to a grocery store . Pinatas hanging from the ceiling. Mexican music playing in the sound system. People speaking Spanish on the PA system. With the exception of a few Philippinos and Blacks,the customers are Mexican.

National City is an old Mexican barrio just south of San Diego. Since Nam,there's been a growth in the a Philippino community because of the 32nd Street Naval Station. Yesterday, when I drove into the Food Land parking lot,it was a mob scene. A section of the parking lot was cordoned off with that yellow police tape. I figure it was a fiesta of sorts. Turned out that Adrian Gonzalez of the San Diego Padres was going to make an appearance.

Adrian Gonzalez grew up in TJ and San Diego. He went to Eastlake High and led their baseball team to a CIF Championship. Eastlake High is in the same area as the Little League Champs from Chula Vista.

After those kids returned to San Diego,Gonzalez treated them to a big dinner in a swank restaurant in the Gas Lamp District downtown. He kept the press away to "protect" the kids. I don't know what he was protecting them from,but I'm sure everybody had a good time.

Yesterday ,in the parking lot,there was a huge crowd. Mostly Mexicans from the barrio. Adrian Gonzalez arrived with a Padre rep. These reps always crack me up. He was sitting next to Adrian like he was protecting him from the crowd. Gonzalez,I'm guessing,wished the guy wasn't there. Gonzalez,instead of wearing his Padre shirt,was wearing a Chivas soccer jersey.

Gonzalez knows what the barrio is. He remembers. He saw the dads with their sons wearing their Padre shirts and caps. The mothers pushing the strollers. The homies.The old SUV's.

There was plenty of Mexican food to be devoured. There was a long line for autographs. Everything was on the house. No charge for the food,the autographs. Adrian Gonzalez paid the tab.

Yeah,that day in the parking lot was good for Food Lands business. People walked inside the store to do their shopping after they met Gonzalez. However, there were people like my wife.She didn't know who Adrian Gonzalez is. She asked me what was going on in the parking lot. I told her that a San Diego Padre ,raised in the barrio, was meeting the people. She continued to pick out the "tunas"(cactus apples) from a big crate. She understood. She lived in the barrio too.

[Randyman]

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE

Every weekend I drive my wife,Maria,to Food Land Market in National City to buy her tortillas and the usual vegetables,fruit,and other Mexican grocery items that she feels are unequaled in any other part of town. She even prefers the corn tortillas at Food Land over the corn tortillas in Tijuana. I mean who's to say that you can't find better tortillas in the United States?

The market is owned buy an Arab. At least that's what everyone says. I've never seen the guy. Everyone working there is Mexican. The market gets a real workout. It's like going down to TJ to a grocery store . Pinatas hanging from the ceiling. Mexican music playing in the sound system. People speaking Spanish on the PA system. With the exception of a few Philippinos and Blacks,the customers are Mexican.

National City is an old Mexican barrio just south of San Diego. Since Nam,there's been a growth in the a Philippino community because of the 32nd Street Naval Station. Yesterday, when I drove into the Food Land parking lot,it was a mob scene. A section of the parking lot was cordoned off with that yellow police tape. I figure it was a fiesta of sorts. Turned out that Adrian Gonzalez of the San Diego Padres was going to make an appearance.

Adrian Gonzalez grew up in TJ and San Diego. He went to Eastlake High and led their baseball team to a CIF Championship. Eastlake High is in the same area as the Little League Champs from Chula Vista.

After those kids returned to San Diego,Gonzalez treated them to a big dinner in a swank restaurant in the Gas Lamp District downtown. He kept the press away to "protect" the kids. I don't know what he was protecting them from,but I'm sure everybody had a good time.

Yesterday ,in the parking lot,there was a huge crowd. Mostly Mexicans from the barrio. Adrian Gonzalez arrived with a Padre rep. These reps always crack me up. He was sitting next to Adrian like he was protecting him from the crowd. Gonzalez,I'm guessing,wished the guy wasn't there. Gonzalez,instead of wearing his Padre shirt,was wearing a Chivas soccer jersey.

Gonzalez knows what the barrio is. He remembers. He saw the dads with their sons wearing their Padre shirts and caps. The mothers pushing the strollers. The homies.The old SUV's.

There was plenty of Mexican food to be devoured. There was a long line for autographs. Everything was on the house. No charge for the food,the autographs. Adrian Gonzalez paid the tab.

Yeah,that day in the parking lot was good for Food Lands business. People walked inside the store to do their shopping after they met Gonzalez. However, there were people like my wife.She didn't know who Adrian Gonzalez is. She asked me what was going on in the parking lot. I told her that a San Diego Padre ,raised in the barrio, was meeting the people. She continued to pick out the "tunas"(cactus apples) from a big crate. She understood. She lived in the barrio too.

Rog, it's my opinion that the guys with the biggest hearts, in any sport, are the ones that remember where they came from and give a little back to boot. Adrian Gonzalez sounds like a class act.

Randy

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Jeri and I drove down to the Seal Beach Pier yesterday evening to see the sunset and I got this shot.

Randy

Great shot!!...

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Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

Some good beer and some salsa and tortillas and you have perfect meal.

Randy D

I second that!!!

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SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE

Every weekend I drive my wife,Maria,to Food Land Market in National City to buy her tortillas and the usual vegetables,fruit,and other Mexican grocery items that she feels are unequaled in any other part of town. She even prefers the corn tortillas at Food Land over the corn tortillas in Tijuana. I mean who's to say that you can't find better tortillas in the United States?

The market is owned buy an Arab. At least that's what everyone says. I've never seen the guy. Everyone working there is Mexican. The market gets a real workout. It's like going down to TJ to a grocery store . Pinatas hanging from the ceiling. Mexican music playing in the sound system. People speaking Spanish on the PA system. With the exception of a few Philippinos and Blacks,the customers are Mexican.

National City is an old Mexican barrio just south of San Diego. Since Nam,there's been a growth in the a Philippino community because of the 32nd Street Naval Station. Yesterday, when I drove into the Food Land parking lot,it was a mob scene. A section of the parking lot was cordoned off with that yellow police tape. I figure it was a fiesta of sorts. Turned out that Adrian Gonzalez of the San Diego Padres was going to make an appearance.

Adrian Gonzalez grew up in TJ and San Diego. He went to Eastlake High and led their baseball team to a CIF Championship. Eastlake High is in the same area as the Little League Champs from Chula Vista.

After those kids returned to San Diego,Gonzalez treated them to a big dinner in a swank restaurant in the Gas Lamp District downtown. He kept the press away to "protect" the kids. I don't know what he was protecting them from,but I'm sure everybody had a good time.

Yesterday ,in the parking lot,there was a huge crowd. Mostly Mexicans from the barrio. Adrian Gonzalez arrived with a Padre rep. These reps always crack me up. He was sitting next to Adrian like he was protecting him from the crowd. Gonzalez,I'm guessing,wished the guy wasn't there. Gonzalez,instead of wearing his Padre shirt,was wearing a Chivas soccer jersey.

Gonzalez knows what the barrio is. He remembers. He saw the dads with their sons wearing their Padre shirts and caps. The mothers pushing the strollers. The homies.The old SUV's.

There was plenty of Mexican food to be devoured. There was a long line for autographs. Everything was on the house. No charge for the food,the autographs. Adrian Gonzalez paid the tab.

Yeah,that day in the parking lot was good for Food Lands business. People walked inside the store to do their shopping after they met Gonzalez. However, there were people like my wife.She didn't know who Adrian Gonzalez is. She asked me what was going on in the parking lot. I told her that a San Diego Padre ,raised in the barrio, was meeting the people. She continued to pick out the "tunas"(cactus apples) from a big crate. She understood. She lived in the barrio too.

Rog, it's my opinion that the guys with the biggest hearts, in any sport, are the ones that remember where they came from and give a little back to boot. Adrian Gonzalez sounds like a class act.

Randy

Randy
Gonzalez really has a big following down here. He's another Tony Gwynn in popularity. I hope the greedy owners of this team don't sell him off when his contract runs out.

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Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

Some good beer and some salsa and tortillas and you have perfect meal.

Randy D

I second that!!!

Fellas'
Think my wife was born to cook. There were a few other people invited over to my daughter's house last night. Some of their friends and kids.

Maria did all the cooking. Brought over "her" beans and rice. She even made flour tortillas. And last but not least,she made the salsa. One for the fire eaters and another for the timid.

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach.Can't argue.It goes beyond just the food. It's the devotion to making it.

[Rick Farris]

Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

Some good beer and some salsa and tortillas and you have perfect meal.

Randy D

This gringo agrees with Randy! The food always looks so good here.
By the way, Roger, in the pic of Maria at the BBQ I can really see your grandaughter, Amanda.
I don't know exactly what features they share, but you can see they are family.
You all have beautiful families, and I appreciate the photos.


-Rick

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Bar B Q at my daughters. Maria making carne asada and chicken. USC won and I had a couple of shots of Hornitos. Good night.

Some good beer and some salsa and tortillas and you have perfect meal.

Randy D

This gringo agrees with Randy! The food always looks so good here.
By the way, Roger, in the pic of Maria at the BBQ I can really see your grandaughter, Amanda.
I don't know exactly what features they share, but you can see they are family.
You all have beautiful families, and I appreciate the photos.


-Rick

Thanks Rick
Amanda is very close to her grandmother. BTW. Best of luck to Monica with her new job.

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Jack Kramer, tennis champ and promoter, dies at 88

Kramer, who died Saturday at his home in L.A., won the Wimbledon singles title in 1947 and had victories in many other Grand Slam events. He ran the L.A. men's pro tennis tournament for many years.

By Bill Dwyre
September 13, 2009

Jack Kramer, a world-renowned tennis player in the 1940s and early '50s and a well-known businessman and tennis promoter in Southern California for more 60 years, died late Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.

The cause of death was a soft tissue cancer that was diagnosed in July.

Kramer, the No. 1 player in the world for much of the late 1940s, won the Wimbledon men's singles title in 1947 and the men's U.S. Championships, the forerunner of the U.S. Open, in 1946 and '47. He also won seven other Grand Slam titles in doubles, all at Wimbledon or the U.S. Championships.

He was among the most successful of the touring pros, who barnstormed from arena to arena in the early 1950s. He retired from tennis with an arthritic back in 1954.

He was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. in 1968.

Kramer was among those leading the way for a more unified, open tennis tour and was among the group advocating a boycott of Wimbledon, which took place in 1973. He was among the founders of the Association of Tennis Professionals, a forerunner to the current ATP Tour, and was its first executive director in 1972.

He and his family have been the owners and operators of the long-running Los Angeles men's pro tennis tournament since the late 1970s. The summer tour event was called the Jack Kramer Open for five years and is now run by Bob Kramer, one of Jack's five sons. It began in 1927 as the Pacific Southwest Tournament and was held initially at the L.A. Tennis Club, then moved over the years to Pauley Pavilion at UCLA, Los Caballeros in Orange County and eventually to the UCLA Strauss Tennis Stadium, starting the year after the 1984 Olympics.

Kramer and his family also own Los Serranos golf course in Chino. Kramer's son David manages the course.

Kramer also owned more than 100 race horses over the years and made two trips to Del Mar this season to watch his horses run.

His most recent trip was over the Labor Day weekend.

The last tennis match he saw was on July 27, when he went to UCLA for the tournament now run by his son. He said he wanted to see Pete Sampras play an exhibition match against Marat Safin.

"Dad thought Pete was one of the greatest players ever, probably because he played a lot like he did [in a serve-and-volley style]," Bob Kramer said today.

Kramer had suffered a series of falls in recent years that that led him to use a walker or a wheelchair. In 1998, he broke his leg when he spilled out of a golf cart into a ravine at Los Serranos. Then he suffered a series of falls and ankle and leg injuries, and most recently sustained a broken ankle outside his home in 2007

"All on his right side, right leg, right ankle," Bob Kramer said.

Kramer's wife, Gloria, died in 2008. Besides sons Bob and David, he is survived by three other sons, John, Michael and Ron, and by eight grandchildren.

Services are pending. Bob Kramer said that details of a memorial service would be announced soon, after a family meeting tonight.

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Roberto Duran

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Roberto Duran

Rog, you outdid yourself with this one. You nailed Duran to a tee. As you know Duran is my favorite fighter. This is my favorite Roger Esty painting. Thanks!

Randy

[Rick Farris]

Roberto Duran

Exceptional!
You captured Duran's eyes.
One of the best yet!