Classic American West Coast Boxing

[Rick Farris]

Hey Frank . . .

I'll see you at the GSBA lunch today! Will bring the Charlie Norkus DVD's for you.
Looking forward to seeing Tony & Frankie.

[THEHAMMER321]

Frank happy belated birthday, and anniversary to you and connie.

[Rick Farris]

Had to leave the GSBA lunch the moment I arrived. Work.
Tony looked good, Frank. All the Baltzazar's did. And so did Sylvia Ramos.
I truly regret not being able to stay and visit with everybody.
Hope everybody had a great time.

[kikibalt]

Hey Frank . . .

I'll see you at the GSBA lunch today! Will bring the Charlie Norkus DVD's for you.
Looking forward to seeing Tony & Frankie.

Thanks Rick for bringing the DVD's, and thanks Charlie for sending them over. To bad you couldn't stay Rick, we had a great time and the food was great, had a full house too. We hang with the owner of the Dunes, John, That is one funny dude, never a dull moment with that guy around, he's great with one liners.

[kikibalt]

Frank happy belated birthday, and anniversary to you and connie.

Thanks Paul, from both Connie and I

[kikibalt]

GSBA 2010Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



Tony "Tiger" Baltazar, John, and Frankie Baltazar
John is owner of the Dunes on Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, Ca.



Don Fraser and friend

[THEHAMMER321]

GSBA 2010Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



Tony "Tiger" Baltazar, John, and Frankie Baltazar
John is owner of the Dunes on Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, Ca.



Don Fraser and friend

John looks like a pisan, looks like lou duva.

[kikibalt]

Paul, John is Armenian, I told him Tony was A Turk and he was ready to kill Tony....

[kikibalt]

GSBA 2010 Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



Bobby Chacon and girlfriend/caregiver, Rosie....



Luis Torres, Tony "Tiger" Baltazar, John, and me



Danny Valdez, former Calif. featherweight Champion & friend

[kikibalt]

GSBA 2010 Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



My daughter, Linda, my wife, Connie, and John

[CNorkusJr]

Nice to see everyone getting into the Holiday Spirit at the GSBA Luncheon. Your pictures speak a thousand words Frank. Everybody looks healthy God Bless.

Also, glad to hear the the DVD handoff was made. Thanks Rick in your efforts to do so. Hope you weren't late for work. As it is, my nephews are on the edge of their seats waiting for the new "Spiderman" movie to come out. I keep telling them years away-but it doesnt register. The trailer to the new "Transformers 3" is out and if I have to watch it one more time with them, I'll have no hair left .
Your more than Welcome Frank, Happy Birthday. Enjoy the fight discs.

Glad to see Don Frasers picture. Just the other day I was watching one of the "Mobsters" documentarys on A&E station. Each episode features a different mob guy story. This one featured the life of "Mickey Cohen" who has a past with boxing in LA.
They interviewed Don Fraser on it. Very insightful about the Olympic days. Good stuff.

[Rick Farris]

Nice to see everyone getting into the Holiday Spirit at the GSBA Luncheon. Your pictures speak a thousand words Frank. Everybody looks healthy God Bless.

Also, glad to hear the the DVD handoff was made. Thanks Rick in your efforts to do so. Hope you weren't late for work. As it is, my nephews are on the edge of their seats waiting for the new "Spiderman" movie to come out. I keep telling them years away-but it doesnt register. The trailer to the new "Transformers 3" is out and if I have to watch it one more time with them, I'll have no hair left .
Your more than Welcome Frank, Happy Birthday. Enjoy the fight discs.

Glad to see Don Frasers picture. Just the other day I was watching one of the "Mobsters" documentarys on A&E station. Each episode features a different mob guy story. This one featured the life of "Mickey Cohen" who has a past with boxing in LA.
They interviewed Don Fraser on it. Very insightful about the Olympic days. Good stuff.

Charlie . . . We'll finish principal photography in late May.
It will be released in 3D about this time next year, in time for 2012 Oscar consideration. This time next year will come quick.
I promise, when you first see the film's release date, you'll think to yourself, "Man, I remember when I heard the film was being made, now it's out."

[CNorkusJr]

Sounds good Rick. Your right, these days are flying by and a year is just a drop in the bucket it seems now.
We been getting some feedback here in the Entertainment parts of the paper that the cast has been experiencing some accidents on set. Nothing serious I hope. All these action flicks, you would think that the stunts they pull off are very dangerous, but behind it all I am sure they all get good protections. That's why the stunt doubles are getting the big bucks I assume.
The Spiderman musical here in New york were besieged with problems in recent months. One of the biggest and most lavish productions to hit Broadway ever. They ran out of money before opening- Bono (song writer for this) and Producer came up with another few million to keep it going. They fast tracked the revues so they can get the Holiday tourists to bite while they visit New York.
Opening night, Spiderman gets hung up on a wire assembly suspended over the audience for 45 minutes just before intermission. They said he joked with crowd (what else can he do)- and the audience didnt seem to mind. Box Office sales are said to be good- but not reporting attendance figures.
A few other glitches were smoothed out and its running well again.
Kids are saying in paper that it is a "cool" show to see.We'll find out in the spring how "cool" it is.

[bennie]

Amir Khan's next challenger is likely to be Zab Judah, the brash American southpaw who is trying his luck at light-welterweight again after a losing run at welterweight in recent years.
Khan, the WBA light-welterweight champion, gained the full respect of British boxing fans on Saturday night with his exciting decision over Argentine puncher Marcis Maidana in Las Vegas, proving once and for all that his chin, while not in the league of Marvin Hagler's, is hardly as bad as it looked two years ago when a Colombian smashed him inside a minute. Khan may have been caught cold that night.
In Judah, he faces a man with experience, speed, skill and a decent dig, but it must hurt the 33-year-old New Yorker, a pro since 1996, to boil down to 140 pounds. Judah faded alarmingly in the closing rounds of his 12-rounder with Argentina's Lucas Matthysse last time out, hanging on for a split decision to secure the crack at Khan. It was his first time Judah had made light-welterweight since 2003, after which he ran into the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Carlos Baldomir, Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey up at welterweight, all of whom must have taken something out of him.
The younger, fresher, much-improved Khan looks too much.

[bennie]

GSBA 2010 Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



My daughter, Linda, my wife, Connie, and John

Everybody looks very well fed. What is Christmas if you can't eat and drink until you spew.

[bennie]

There seems to be an awful lot of female 'friends' milling about, Frankie.

[kikibalt]

There seems to be an awful lot of female 'friends' milling about, Frankie.

Yeah! Bennie, some of the old roosters came with a "gal friend", most of whom I was meeting for the first time and I'm so bad at remembering names that I just wrote "and friend".

[Rick Farris]

GSBA 2010 Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



Bobby Chacon and girlfriend/caregiver, Rosie....



Luis Torres, Tony "Tiger" Baltazar, John, and me



Danny Valdez, former Calif. featherweight Champion & friend

I like Danny Valdez, he was a helluva fighter, and had a nice career at ABC-TV after his ring days were over.

[Rick Farris]

Nice to see everyone getting into the Holiday Spirit at the GSBA Luncheon. Your pictures speak a thousand words Frank. Everybody looks healthy God Bless.

Also, glad to hear the the DVD handoff was made. Thanks Rick in your efforts to do so. Hope you weren't late for work. As it is, my nephews are on the edge of their seats waiting for the new "Spiderman" movie to come out. I keep telling them years away-but it doesnt register. The trailer to the new "Transformers 3" is out and if I have to watch it one more time with them, I'll have no hair left .
Your more than Welcome Frank, Happy Birthday. Enjoy the fight discs.

Glad to see Don Frasers picture. Just the other day I was watching one of the "Mobsters" documentarys on A&E station. Each episode features a different mob guy story. This one featured the life of "Mickey Cohen" who has a past with boxing in LA.
They interviewed Don Fraser on it. Very insightful about the Olympic days. Good stuff.

Don's career spanned a couple eras, including L.A.'s Golden Era of boxing. He was just a kid coming up under the legendary L.A. promoters such as Hap Navarro, Jackie Leonard, Cal & Aileen Eaton and George Parnassus. Names such as Mickey Cohen were not strangers to the boxing world back when Don was starting out. Don is L.A. boxing royalty.

[kikibalt]

Don Fraser, Don Chargin and Hap Navarro are the last of LA's boxing icons that are still with us, and I am proud to say that history will record that I, in a small way was involved in Fraser and Chargin careers.
All three are/were great boxing man in their own way....

[CNorkusJr]

There seems to be an awful lot of female 'friends' milling about, Frankie.

Yeah! Bennie, some of the old roosters came with a "gal friend", most of whom I was meeting for the first time and I'm so bad at remembering names that I just wrote "and friend".

My wife Rosie is bad with names too.
Sometimes she asks me to take out my credit card and hand it to her and then she says "Thats who you are ?" and walks away with it.

[kikibalt]

There seems to be an awful lot of female 'friends' milling about, Frankie.

Yeah! Bennie, some of the old roosters came with a "gal friend", most of whom I was meeting for the first time and I'm so bad at remembering names that I just wrote "and friend".

My wife Rosie is bad with names too.
Sometimes she asks me to take out my credit card and hand it to her and then she says "Thats who you are ?" and walks away with it.

And you fall for it every time, don't you Charlie??....

[CNorkusJr]

Don Fraser, Don Chargin and Hap Navarro are the last of LA's boxing icons that are still with us, and I am proud to say that history will record that I, in a small way was involved in Fraser and Chargin careers.
All three are/were great boxing man in their own way....

All Legends in the sport. And Frank, you can easily include yourself and your kids in on that term also.

[kikibalt]

GSBA 2010 Xmas luncheon...12-14-2010



Some of the guys at the luncheon



Larry Montalvo, President, GSBA



Main table

[kikibalt]

Don Fraser, Don Chargin and Hap Navarro are the last of LA's boxing icons that are still with us, and I am proud to say that history will record that I, in a small way was involved in Fraser and Chargin careers.
All three are/were great boxing man in their own way....

All Legends in the sport. And Frank, you can easily include yourself and your kids in on that term also.

Thanks Charlie, but those three are true LA Boxing Legends, my boys and I played a small part in LA boxing history, which of course we're proud of.....