Classic American West Coast Boxing

[THEHAMMER321]

I miss all that good food some of you would show on here, Randy are you listening ?

[kikibalt]

I miss all that good food some of you would show on here, Randy are you listening ?

Paulino, I went out and had menudo con pata this morning....

[kikibalt]

I miss all that good food some of you would show on here, Randy are you listening ?

Yes Paulino, Randy is the resident gourmet cook

[Rick Farris]

Ali on the best ever . . .

Larry King asked Muhammad Ali, "Do you really think you are the greatest?"

Ali answered . . . "Of course not. How would I know who the greatest fighter was. How can you compare fighters of different eras?
I was probably the best of my time, but how do I know what would have happened if I fought Louis, Dempsey, or Jack Johnson.
Who knows?"

Ali, told Howard Cosell, "I wish you were a tree and I was a dog"

About Howard Cosell, I met Tex Cobb when I was working at the Riviera hotel in 1984, he was eating in the restaurant where I was working, so I told him I was a boxing fan, and we talked for a few minutes this guy could talk, I said what's the deal with Cosell quitting boxing after your fight with Holmes, he said '' you mean that f--king K-ke quit boxing cause I got my a-- whipped, my pleasure''

You gotta love Cobb. For the Cosell thing, if nothing else.
Mel Epstein would have kissed him for that.

[Randyman]

Ali, told Howard Cosell, "I wish you were a tree and I was a dog"

About Howard Cosell, I met Tex Cobb when I was working at the Riviera hotel in 1984, he was eating in the restaurant where I was working, so I told him I was a boxing fan, and we talked for a few minutes this guy could talk, I said what's the deal with Cosell quitting boxing after your fight with Holmes, he said '' you mean that f--king K-ke quit boxing cause I got my a-- whipped, my pleasure''

You gotta love Cobb. For the Cosell thing, if nothing else.
Mel Epstein would have kissed him for that.

After taking a severe beating Holmes Cobb with a smile on his face and in all seriousness said "Let's party". You gotta love his spirit. Mel would have told him "Bullshit, you go home and get your ass in bed!"

[Randyman]

I miss all that good food some of you would show on here, Randy are you listening ?

I hear ya Paulie. I miss Rog posting those pics of all that good food his wife made for him, as well as all the Italian food his sister made. Rog, are you listening?

Randy

[Rick Farris]

About Howard Cosell, I met Tex Cobb when I was working at the Riviera hotel in 1984, he was eating in the restaurant where I was working, so I told him I was a boxing fan, and we talked for a few minutes this guy could talk, I said what's the deal with Cosell quitting boxing after your fight with Holmes, he said '' you mean that f--king K-ke quit boxing cause I got my a-- whipped, my pleasure''

You gotta love Cobb. For the Cosell thing, if nothing else.
Mel Epstein would have kissed him for that.

After taking a severe beating Holmes Cobb with a smile on his face and in all seriousness said "Let's party". You gotta love his spirit. Mel would have told him "Bullshit, you go home and get your ass in bed!"

Good fighters & bad fighters . . .

Before one of my fights, Mel Epstein told me that Mike Nixon used to ask him for a rub down after every fight.
He then quipped, "A good fighter don't need a rub down, and a bad fighter don't deserve one."
I told him, "Old man, I don't ever want your hands on my body. If I want a rub down, I'll have my girlfriend do it."
Mel scowled and turned to the side, he began talking to one of his invisable friends. I laid down on a bench and took a nap.

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I miss all that good food some of you would show on here, Randy are you listening ?

I hear ya Paulie. I miss Rog posting those pics of all that good food his wife made for him, as well as all the Italian food his sister made. Rog, are you listening?

Randy

Y'know Randy, at times my Irish taste-buds would cringe at some of the photos, but it really grew on me. I too miss Rog's photos and most of all, his quips.

Scartissue

[kikibalt]

R.I.P Gary Coleman.

"Whatchu Talkin' Bout Willis?!"

[kikibalt]

About Howard Cosell, I met Tex Cobb when I was working at the Riviera hotel in 1984, he was eating in the restaurant where I was working, so I told him I was a boxing fan, and we talked for a few minutes this guy could talk, I said what's the deal with Cosell quitting boxing after your fight with Holmes, he said '' you mean that f--king K-ke quit boxing cause I got my a-- whipped, my pleasure''

You gotta love Cobb. For the Cosell thing, if nothing else.
Mel Epstein would have kissed him for that.

After taking a severe beating Holmes Cobb with a smile on his face and in all seriousness said "Let's party". You gotta love his spirit. Mel would have told him "Bullshit, you go home and get your ass in bed!"

Cobb's was quite the party animal, seen it first hand. 1982, we were in New York, courtesy of Don King. Cobb: "Darling, lets party!" to Frankie & Tony. Next day on the plane as we were heading home, the boys told me that they party with Cobb all night at the hotel bar, Cobb all the time charging the drinks to Don King.
Cobb, called everybody "Darling" even Don King

[THEHAMMER321]

I always figured Cobb should have been a wrestler, with his personality and his look, he would have been a perfect fit.

[scartissue]

My favorite Tex Cobb quote: "In tennis, if you screw up, it's 15 - love. In boxing, if you screw up, it's yer ass!"

Scartissue

[THEHAMMER321]

Brazil . . .

Monica and I need to go to Brazil, however, my work schedule (related to a future project) is up in the air.
So it looks like we'll have to wait until things are worked out.

The great thing about Brazil for us is that Monica gets to see her family, and I get to have a lot of fun and relax. We won't go to Rio or Sao Paolo, we'll head to Salvador, Bahia, on the N/E coast. Things are a bit more relaxed in that part of the country, beautiful beaches. Women out number the men considerably, and many are absolutely beautiful! This is one place on the face of the earth where I am waited on 24/7 by beautiful women, a place where a man can be a man without all hell breaking loose. I married the right woman and I love the culture.


-Ricardo
(pronounced "Hicardo" in Portugese)

Rick maybe you can answer this, I have always wondered about Brazilians, I know they speak Portugese so be definition they are not Hispanic, but I believe they are considered Latino because Brazil is in Latin America.

[Rick Farris]

Brazil . . .

Monica and I need to go to Brazil, however, my work schedule (related to a future project) is up in the air.
So it looks like we'll have to wait until things are worked out.

The great thing about Brazil for us is that Monica gets to see her family, and I get to have a lot of fun and relax. We won't go to Rio or Sao Paolo, we'll head to Salvador, Bahia, on the N/E coast. Things are a bit more relaxed in that part of the country, beautiful beaches. Women out number the men considerably, and many are absolutely beautiful! This is one place on the face of the earth where I am waited on 24/7 by beautiful women, a place where a man can be a man without all hell breaking loose. I married the right woman and I love the culture.


-Ricardo
(pronounced "Hicardo" in Portugese)

Rick maybe you can answer this, I have always wondered about Brazilians, I know they speak Portugese so be definition they are not Hispanic, but I believe they are considered Latino because Brazil is in Latin America.

According to Monica, a country with a Latin based language, is a Latin country.
Monica's native language is Portugese, and her family speaks only Portugese. Monica's passion, however, is language and she is also fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and can get by in Dutch, as well. One day, her skills might help me when interviewing boxers from other countries. I don't know Eder Jofre, or if he speaks English. I do know that he is the mayor of Sao Paolo, Brazil. I'd love to interview Jofre, but my Portugese is very limited at the moment. On our way to Salvador, Bahia we must fly into Sao Paolo first. One day, I hope to arrange an interview with Jofre.

[Rick Farris]

You gotta love Cobb. For the Cosell thing, if nothing else.
Mel Epstein would have kissed him for that.

After taking a severe beating Holmes Cobb with a smile on his face and in all seriousness said "Let's party". You gotta love his spirit. Mel would have told him "Bullshit, you go home and get your ass in bed!"

Cobb's was quite the party animal, seen it first hand. 1982, we were in New York, courtesy of Don King. Cobb: "Darling, lets party!" to Frankie & Tony. Next day on the plane as we were heading home, the boys told me that they party with Cobb all night at the hotel bar, Cobb all the time charging the drinks to Don King.
Cobb, called everybody "Darling" even Don King

My former room mate is actor Reb Brown. Brown and I have been friends for years and he starred in a movie with Cobb called, "Uncommon Valor" (Reb was the big explosives expert called "Blaster" in the movie). Reb said he and Cobb had a lot of fun on the production but that Tex was a bit unreliable. In the morning, Cobb would often be abscent and the production company would have to send out a search party to locate him. They'd usually find him somewhere on the Island (they filmed it in Hawaii) shacked up with a gal or two.

[THEHAMMER321]

After taking a severe beating Holmes Cobb with a smile on his face and in all seriousness said "Let's party". You gotta love his spirit. Mel would have told him "Bullshit, you go home and get your ass in bed!"

Cobb's was quite the party animal, seen it first hand. 1982, we were in New York, courtesy of Don King. Cobb: "Darling, lets party!" to Frankie & Tony. Next day on the plane as we were heading home, the boys told me that they party with Cobb all night at the hotel bar, Cobb all the time charging the drinks to Don King.
Cobb, called everybody "Darling" even Don King

My former room mate is actor Reb Brown. Brown and I have been friends for years and he starred in a movie with Cobb called, "Uncommon Valor" (Reb was the big explosives expert called "Blaster" in the movie). Reb said he and Cobb had a lot of fun on the production but that Tex was a bit unreliable. In the morning, Cobb would often be abscent and the production company would have to send out a search party to locate him. They'd usually find him somewhere on the Island (they filmed it in Hawaii) shacked up with a gal or two.

Funny you should mention Reb Brown, I love all the 1970s cop shows Kojak, Baretta, Police Story etc, he was on an episode of Kojak that I recently watched.

[THEHAMMER321]

Evil Knievel, as a kid growing up in the 1970s he was like a super hero, seen him many times on wide world of sports, a few people including his son have become daredevils but none of them caught the public's imagination like him, he was an American original, many of the kids in my neighborhood would set up ramps for our bikes and some of us ended up with a trip to the emergency room.

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Evil Knievel, as a kid growing up in the 1970s he was like a super hero, seen him many times on wide world of sports, a few people including his son have become daredevils but none of them caught the public's imagination like him, he was an American original, many of the kids in my neighborhood would set up ramps for our bikes and some of us ended up with a trip to the emergency room.

I heard or read somewhere that EK was a nut-case, was he?

[THEHAMMER321]

sadly Frank you are right, he had a lot of problems booze and who knows what else got him in trouble, but as a kid we didn't know all that.

[THEHAMMER321]

Another guy who as a kid I thought was a good guy, turned out to be a first class A hole was Jerry Lewis, he put on a big front with the muscular dystrophy telethon, I have heard from many sources he is a male version of Barbara Streasand

[Panzerfaust]

I watched ''The Blues brothers'' today. And seemed to remember Rick saying he worked on that movie. The stairway scene when they are going up to the penguins office has just brilliant lighting that sets the mood perfectly.... Rick , you have anything to do with that scene?

[Rick Farris]

I watched ''The Blues brothers'' today. And seemed to remember Rick saying he worked on that movie. The stairway scene when they are going up to the penguins office has just brilliant lighting that sets the mood perfectly.... Rick , you have anything to do with that scene?

The Blues Brothers . . .

I worked on the entire film, but I can't remember that scene. We filmed it more than thirty years ago.
My uncle actually deserves credit for the lighting, I was on his crew for that one.
We shot most of the exteriors in Chicago, and most of the interior scenes in Los Angeles.
The concert scene with Cab Calloway was filmed at The Paladium in Hollywood.
All of the scenes with the cars racing thru the shopping mall were done in Chicago.
The Church scene with James Brown was filmed on stage 27 at Universal Studios.
The interior of the diner scene with Aretha Franklin was also shot in stage at Universal, and then cut in with exteriors filmed in Chicago.
The City of Chicago really rolled out the carpet for the film crew.
The City's mayor at the time was Jane Byrne (spelling), and the mayor's daughter partied hard with us on the crew.
We were working six days a week, and averaging over 90-100 hours per, which was insane.
We made a lot of money working all those hours, but it was blood money.
The director John Landis is a moron, a lucky moron that the film did so well.
The movie made money, although it cost more than twice the original budget to make it.
Had the film flopped, Landis would have never made another major film.

He would go on to direct "The Twilight Zone" (which I also worked on) and he should have been held responsible for the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children killed on the production. Landis shifted the responsibility of a helicopter crash to a Special Effects man, but all on the crew know that Landis ordered the pilot to fly lower, thus putting the copter within the range of a special effects blast that caused the accident. I also worked with John Landis when he directed Michael Jackson's "Thriller". I can't stand the bastid.

[Rick Farris]

Another guy who as a kid I thought was a good guy, turned out to be a first class A hole was Jerry Lewis, he put on a big front with the muscular dystrophy telethon, I have heard from many sources he is a male version of Barbara Streasand

Paul . . . Jerry Lewis is an asshole. My grandfather did one of his movies "The Bell Boy".
My grandfather was under contract to Warner Bros. as a lighting director, but put on loan to Paramount to make that film.
Jerry comes across as a solid guy due to his muscular dystrophy tele-thon's, etc.
Those in the business know him as a cruel, self-centered ass-hole!

I recall my grandfather coming home from work one day and sharing a story about the kind of guy Jerry Lewis was.
He said that Lewis had a group of kiss-ass flunkies that wait on him hand and foot.
On this day, Lewis told one of them that he was going to toss a penny in the air and if the guy didn't catch it, he was fired.
Lewis tossed the coin high in the air, and the lacky pushed thru equipment, knocking things over as he tried unsuccessfully to catch it.
"Your FIRED!" Lewis laughed when the guy came up empty handed.
The guy walked off the set, never to be seen again. My grandfather would never talk to Lewis, or answer any questions the actor asked of him.
My grandfather needn't answer to any actor, he was brought in special by the cinematographer, Leonard South.
My grandfather had no problem telling any phony a-hole where the hell to go. My grandad and Jack Warner were amigos.

[Rick Farris]

Cobb's was quite the party animal, seen it first hand. 1982, we were in New York, courtesy of Don King. Cobb: "Darling, lets party!" to Frankie & Tony. Next day on the plane as we were heading home, the boys told me that they party with Cobb all night at the hotel bar, Cobb all the time charging the drinks to Don King.
Cobb, called everybody "Darling" even Don King

My former room mate is actor Reb Brown. Brown and I have been friends for years and he starred in a movie with Cobb called, "Uncommon Valor" (Reb was the big explosives expert called "Blaster" in the movie). Reb said he and Cobb had a lot of fun on the production but that Tex was a bit unreliable. In the morning, Cobb would often be abscent and the production company would have to send out a search party to locate him. They'd usually find him somewhere on the Island (they filmed it in Hawaii) shacked up with a gal or two.

Funny you should mention Reb Brown, I love all the 1970s cop shows Kojak, Baretta, Police Story etc, he was on an episode of Kojak that I recently watched.

I'll be seeing Reb and his wife tomorrow, when Monica and I go to their home for a BBQ.
Reb actually boxed briefly as an amateur heavyweight for Johnny Flores. This is where we met.
He will be happy you remembered him.

[kikibalt]

Sometime in the early '80's my brother Mando and I with some friends were on a Sunday ride on our Harleys, we stopped at Tom's Farm to greb a 'burger, we sat down to eat, Mando takes a bite out of his and a worm stuck its head out of the tomato...