Classic American West Coast Boxing

[iskigoe]

Isabel wrote and illustrated a book for our spca about a dog she adopted. It is being sold to raise money for the shelter.
Isabel had her first book signing the other day. What a star.

The book sells for $7.00 but when people came up to her table and gave her a $20 she put it in the cash box, thanked them, and gave them a big smile. She did not understand the idea of giving change, and no one was willing to argue with the pretty --now ten year old.

She is really something. I am very proud.

Kevin

[Rick Farris]

The Igoe name back in print.

Kevin, did your nine year old daughter write a book?, if she did; congrats to her....

Ditto, Kevin! That's a big deal. Congrats!

[Rick Farris]

Art Aragon vs Johnny Gonsalves



I was at the Olympic for this 1951 fight and I can still clearly hear the roar of the crowd as Aragon was pounding Gonsalves against the ropes.



Johnny Gonsalves vs Art Aragon

Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California

Art Aragon W Johnny Gonsalves SD 10 10
Ernie Greer W Benny Black TKO 5 6
Tommy Umeda W Johnny Malloy TKO 1 6
Walter Landry W Jimmy Watson TKO 4 4
Joey Davis D Johnny Vega PTS 4 4

[iskigoe]

Thanks Rick and Frank,

Sorry to take up the space. Just too proud a pop not to share.

[Rick Farris]

N.Y. Jets

[Rick Farris]

Thanks Rick and Frank,

Sorry to take up the space. Just too proud a pop not to share.

She's a published writer! She deserves all the space she wants or needs.

[CNorkusJr]

N.Y. Jets

Whew too close for comfort. Those are the breaks though .
Next up: Greenbay @Jets Halloween

[kikibalt]

Thanks Rick and Frank,

Sorry to take up the space. Just too proud a pop not to share.

She's a published writer! She deserves all the space she wants or needs.

Ditto!

[kikibalt]

Floyd Patterson





Cus D' Amato, Floyd Patterson and Bill Rosesonhn

[raylawpc]

Isabel wrote and illustrated a book for our spca about a dog she adopted. It is being sold to raise money for the shelter.
Isabel had her first book signing the other day. What a star.

The book sells for $7.00 but when people came up to her table and gave her a $20 she put it in the cash box, thanked them, and gave them a big smile. She did not understand the idea of giving change, and no one was willing to argue with the pretty --now ten year old.

She is really something. I am very proud.

Kevin

I suspect her great-grandpa would have been proud as well. Another Igoe writer in the family! Congratulations to her (and you for raising her)!

[iskigoe]

Thanks Tom,

All parents should have children as easy to raise as Isabel and her brother Sean.

Kevin

[THEHAMMER321]

Good morning all, another week of football is in the books, when I was 6 or 7 growing up in the early 1970s I loved what was called ''Big time wrestling '' my favorite wrestler was Pat Patterson, I liked some of the others also ''moon dog Mayne'',Rocky Johnson,Haystack Calhoun, the masked marvel, that was before I started following boxing which I started following in the very late 1970s, Frank do you know if they held wrestling at the olympic ?.

[Rick Farris]

Good morning all, another week of football is in the books, when I was 6 or 7 growing up in the early 1970s I loved what was called ''Big time wrestling '' my favorite wrestler was Pat Patterson, I liked some of the others also ''moon dog Mayne'',Rocky Johnson,Haystack Calhoun, the masked marvel, that was before I started following boxing which I started following in the very late 1970s, Frank do you know if they held wrestling at the olympic ?.

Paul . . . Wrestling was a Wed. night affair for decades at the Olympic. I also enjoyed a couple of the guys you mentioned, along with Freddie Blassie, Bobo Brazil, etc. I may be wrong, but I believe that the Masked Marvel, was Judo Gene LeBell, son of Olympic boxing promoter Aileen Eaton.

[THEHAMMER321]

Rick I think there have been a few wrestlers over the years who called themselves the masked marvel, I remember you talking about Gene La bell before and how good he was at grappling and Judo and how he put Steven Segal to sleep, you think he is still active at his age ?.

[kikibalt]

Good morning all, another week of football is in the books, when I was 6 or 7 growing up in the early 1970s I loved what was called ''Big time wrestling '' my favorite wrestler was Pat Patterson, I liked some of the others also ''moon dog Mayne'',Rocky Johnson,Haystack Calhoun, the masked marvel, that was before I started following boxing which I started following in the very late 1970s, Frank do you know if they held wrestling at the olympic ?.

Paul . . . Wrestling was a Wed. night affair for decades at the Olympic. I also enjoyed a couple of the guys you mentioned, along with Freddie Blassie, Bobo Brazil, etc. I may be wrong, but I believe that the Masked Marvel, was Judo Gene LeBell, son of Olympic boxing promoter Aileen Eaton.

I remember circa 1949 when us kids would ride our bikes from the Simons Birckyard to Olympic Blvd in Montebello and we would sit on the sidewalk in front of an appliance store with a big window; who after closing hours would leave a TV on, the TV was set on channel 5 KTLA who would show wrestling from the Olympic...Ah! to be a kid again! too bad we only get one shot at life.....

[THEHAMMER321]

By the way Frank, whatever happened to ''Tales from Simmons brickyard'' series.

[kikibalt]

By the way Frank, whatever happened to ''Tales from Simmons brickyard'' series.

Taking a break from them Paul....

[THEHAMMER321]

There have been many of fighters who were so nice and had such a gentle way about them, that it was hard to believe they were fighters, here is my list of fighters who fit this category Floyd Patterson, Emile Griffith, Alexis Arguello,Joe Louis, and the ones that certainly didn't have the reputation for being nice , Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Rafael ''Bazooka'' Limon, Sonny Liston, anybody else have a good guy bad guy list.

[Chuck1052]

Frank, it is my understanding that people gathered in front of stores in order to watch the coverage of the Kathy Fiscus Tragedy on television during the late 1940s. Kathy, a small child, fell down an uncovered deep well and was found dead. The coverage of the tragedy is considered an important landmark in Los Angeles television history.

- Chuck Johnston

[raylawpc]

Rick I think there have been a few wrestlers over the years who called themselves the masked marvel, I remember you talking about Gene La bell before and how good he was at grappling and Judo and how he put Steven Segal to sleep, you think he is still active at his age ?.

Two things you had in every pro wrestling circuit in the US: The masked guy called "The Masked Marvel," and a masked tag team called "The Assassins." We had them in Oklahoma City. Danny Hodge - yes, the same guy that got wacked by Nino Valdes - was our local hero. Danny never wrestled on TV, but the other guys were regulars on WKY-TV in Oklahoma City at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night. Wrestling before a studio audience. Before I got old enough to drive, I used to stay up and watch the wrestling. I was heart broken when my Dad revealed it was all a fake. I think that bothered me more than the truth about Santa Claus . . .

[raylawpc]

There have been many of fighters who were so nice and had such a gentle way about them, that it was hard to believe they were fighters, here is my list of fighters who fit this category Floyd Patterson, Emile Griffith, Alexis Arguello,Joe Louis, and the ones that certainly didn't have the reputation for being nice , Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Rafael ''Bazooka'' Limon, Sonny Liston, anybody else have a good guy bad guy list.

I'm told by folks who knew him that, one-on-one, Sonny Liston was a genuinely nice guy - a quiet, self-effacing fellow with a dry sense of humor.

[kikibalt]

Frank, it is my understanding that people gathered in front of stores in order to watch the coverage of the Kathy Fiscus Tragedy on television during the late 1940s. Kathy, a small child, fell down an uncovered deep well and was found dead. The coverage of the tragedy is considered an important landmark in Los Angeles television history.

- Chuck Johnston

I watch that tragedy on TV, but don't remember where I watch it at...

I also watch Basilio/DeMarco 1 on a storefront TV on Whittier Blvd on the Eastside as my wife and were strolling the blvd.

[Rick Farris]

There have been many of fighters who were so nice and had such a gentle way about them, that it was hard to believe they were fighters, here is my list of fighters who fit this category Floyd Patterson, Emile Griffith, Alexis Arguello,Joe Louis, and the ones that certainly didn't have the reputation for being nice , Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Rafael ''Bazooka'' Limon, Sonny Liston, anybody else have a good guy bad guy list.

I'm told by folks who knew him that, one-on-one, Sonny Liston was a genuinely nice guy - a quiet, self-effacing fellow with a dry sense of humor.

Tom, what I saw in Sonny Liston during a brief moment tells me the same thing.
Like Tyson, Liston had a soft spot for kids, and I liked something he did that day.
It just revealed to me something that was in total contrast to the Liston I expected, the one I'd read about.
However, it's a fact that he was a leg breaker for the St. Louis mob at one point.
Sonny did what he had to do, as legend has it. The late Johnny Tocco had many stories about Sonny Liston.

[raylawpc]

There have been many of fighters who were so nice and had such a gentle way about them, that it was hard to believe they were fighters, here is my list of fighters who fit this category Floyd Patterson, Emile Griffith, Alexis Arguello,Joe Louis, and the ones that certainly didn't have the reputation for being nice , Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Rafael ''Bazooka'' Limon, Sonny Liston, anybody else have a good guy bad guy list.

I'm told by folks who knew him that, one-on-one, Sonny Liston was a genuinely nice guy - a quiet, self-effacing fellow with a dry sense of humor.

Tom, what I saw in Sonny Liston during a brief moment tells me the same thing.
Like Tyson, Liston had a soft spot for kids, and I liked something he did that day.
It just revealed to me something that was in total contrast to the Liston I expected, the one I'd read about.
However, it's a fact that he was a leg breaker for the St. Louis mob at one point.
Sonny did what he had to do, as legend has it. The late Johnny Tocco had many stories about Sonny Liston.

Oh yes, he had a bad reputation. But I think I mentioned that I have a client whose grandfather was a prison guard at the Walls in Jeff City. He knew Liston there, and told his grandson pretty much the same thing. He said that his grandfather had only a handful of inmates that he liked, but Sonny was one of them.

[Rick Farris]

I'm told by folks who knew him that, one-on-one, Sonny Liston was a genuinely nice guy - a quiet, self-effacing fellow with a dry sense of humor.

Tom, what I saw in Sonny Liston during a brief moment tells me the same thing.
Like Tyson, Liston had a soft spot for kids, and I liked something he did that day.
It just revealed to me something that was in total contrast to the Liston I expected, the one I'd read about.
However, it's a fact that he was a leg breaker for the St. Louis mob at one point.
Sonny did what he had to do, as legend has it. The late Johnny Tocco had many stories about Sonny Liston.

Oh yes, he had a bad reputation. But I think I mentioned that I have a client whose grandfather was a prison guard at the Walls in Jeff City. He knew Liston there, and told his grandson pretty much the same thing. He said that his grandfather had only a handful of inmates that he liked, but Sonny was one of them.

I like Sonny Liston, he's one of my favorite heavyweight champs.
He had a devistating jab, it would push an opponents face outta shape.