Classic American West Coast Boxing

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From the latimes

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-box ... 9022.story

[Randyman]

We spent the weekend moving my mother back down from the high desert. She's been up there twenty years. It's good to have her nearby again. She moved in with my daughter Meranda. It's a relief.

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Thanksgiving!!

Chavez Jr actually looked good this weekend against Manfredo. Manfredo is no world beater but he is and has been a solid pro. It was a good test for junior. Freddie Roach has earned his money.

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Welterweight Andy (The Hawk) Price, beaten only once in 23 pro fights, now is co-managed by Burt Reynolds (r) and TV's
Six Million-Dollar-Man, Lee Majors, who hope to keep Price active. Andy has not fought since last March. He meets Rudy Barro
in tomorrow night's 10-round main event at the Olympic. Hawk's record is 19-1-3. Photo dated: January 28, 1976.

[raylawpc]

We spent the weekend moving my mother back down from the high desert. She's been up there twenty years. It's good to have her nearby again. She moved in with my daughter Meranda. It's a relief.

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Thanksgiving!!

Chavez Jr actually looked good this weekend against Manfredo. Manfredo is no world beater but he is and has been a solid pro. It was a good test for junior. Freddie Roach has earned his money.

I'm sure its nice to have her close to home! Good for you, Randy!

Linda's got me on a new diet, so it's salad for me this Thanksgiving.

Chavez did look good, but I still fear for his health if he ever fights somebody who can punch. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any of his opponents so far have been what one could term a puncher. An interesting fight would be him and that other kid, Alvarez.

[Randyman]

We spent the weekend moving my mother back down from the high desert. She's been up there twenty years. It's good to have her nearby again. She moved in with my daughter Meranda. It's a relief.

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Thanksgiving!!

Chavez Jr actually looked good this weekend against Manfredo. Manfredo is no world beater but he is and has been a solid pro. It was a good test for junior. Freddie Roach has earned his money.

I'm sure its nice to have her close to home! Good for you, Randy!

Linda's got me on a new diet, so it's salad for me this Thanksgiving.

Chavez did look good, but I still fear for his health if he ever fights somebody who can punch. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any of his opponents so far have been what one could term a puncher. An interesting fight would be him and that other kid, Alvarez.

Re Chavez Jr: I agree with you Tom, I don't think he has his father's chin but he may fool us yet. I think a match up with Alvarez would be a good fight. Looking at each of their last fights, I would ever so lightly lean towards Junior. I think Sergio Martinez is chomping at the bit. I don't think Chavez would survive Martinez, much less win the fight but if he could beat Martinez he would have to be taken seriously.

[Randyman]

Welterweight Andy (The Hawk) Price, beaten only once in 23 pro fights, now is co-managed by Burt Reynolds (r) and TV's
Six Million-Dollar-Man, Lee Majors, who hope to keep Price active. Andy has not fought since last March. He meets Rudy Barro
in tomorrow night's 10-round main event at the Olympic. Hawk's record is 19-1-3. Photo dated: January 28, 1976.

A good solid pro in his day. He beat both Carlos Palomino and Pipino Cuevas. Fought some good guys. Got stopped in the first round by Ray Leonard.

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We spent the weekend moving my mother back down from the high desert. She's been up there twenty years. It's good to have her nearby again. She moved in with my daughter Meranda. It's a relief.

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Thanksgiving!!

Chavez Jr actually looked good this weekend against Manfredo. Manfredo is no world beater but he is and has been a solid pro. It was a good test for junior. Freddie Roach has earned his money.

Randy, it's great that you are going to have your mom close by.

[telboy66]

A very happy Thanksgiving to all my friends across the pond have a great one

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A very happy Thanksgiving to all my friends across the pond have a great one

Thanks, Tellboy. I'm ready for that turkey that's in the oven right now,,,

[Randyman]

A very happy Thanksgiving to all my friends across the pond have a great one

Thanks Tellboy, we'll be eating our Thanksgiving meal at my daughter Meranda's house. My brother and his wife will be there as well. So will my mother. My favorite meal of the year.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here on "West Coast Boxing".

[Randyman]

We spent the weekend moving my mother back down from the high desert. She's been up there twenty years. It's good to have her nearby again. She moved in with my daughter Meranda. It's a relief.

I don't know about you guys but I'm ready for Thanksgiving!!

Chavez Jr actually looked good this weekend against Manfredo. Manfredo is no world beater but he is and has been a solid pro. It was a good test for junior. Freddie Roach has earned his money.

Randy, it's great that you are going to have your mom close by.

Thanks Frank, It's a relief, that's for sure!

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Teamsters Boys Club boxers

Found this dated photo (circa 1965). Far left, Tony Baltazar, third from left, Tony "Boo" Campa, fifth from left, Frankie Baltazar, the Teamsters honchos, far right in the white T's, left Arturo Cordova and Richard Ruby.

[Randyman]

Mel Epstein & Mike Nixon

I have been looking for this newspaper clipping, given to me by my late trainer Mel Epstein, for almost 15 years. I found it today while I was cleaning out the garage. I thought you might enjoy putting a face to all those stories Rick and I have told.

From the San Francisco Examiner, dated August 23, 1971

[Randyman]

Teamsters Boys Club boxers

Found this dated photo (circa 1965). Far left, Tony Baltazar, third from left, Tony "Boo" Campa, fifth from left, Frankie Baltazar, the Teamsters honchos, far right in the white T's, left Arturo Cordova and Richard Ruby.

[Randyman]

While cleaning the garage I also ran across this clipping from the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner, dated Friday June 23, 1967.
I was at this fight with my father. We had some pretty good seats as I recall. The Quarry clan was sitting directly in front of us. Mike Quarry, directly in front of me. Jerry was not with the family that night. Years later I would spar with Mike, as well as open the show for him and Tom Bethea for their October 30, 1976 fight at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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While cleaning the garage I also ran across this clipping from the old Los Angeles Herald Examiner, dated Friday June 23, 1967.
I was at this fight with my father. We had some pretty good seats as I recall. The Quarry clan was sitting directly in front of us. Mike Quarry, directly in front of me. Jerry was not with the family that night. Years later I would spar with Mike, as well as open the show for him and Tom Bethea for their October 30, 1976 fight at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Mel Epstein & Mike Nixon

I have been looking for this newspaper clipping, given to me by my late trainer Mel Epstein, for almost 15 years. I found it today while I was cleaning out the garage. I thought you might enjoy putting a face to all those stories Rick and I have told.

From the San Francisco Examiner, dated August 22, 1971

[Cholo]

Mel Epstein & Mike Nixon

I have been looking for this newspaper clipping, given to me by my late trainer Mel Epstein, for almost 15 years. I found it today while I was cleaning out the garage. I thought you might enjoy putting a face to all those stories Rick and I have told.

From the San Francisco Examiner, dated August 23, 1971

Randy, Mel Epstein at last, what a character. Rick mentioned screw woims and bastid's, I find myself saying it often Mike Nixon, I have a Boxing magazine from 1971 where Nixon and the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson did a exhibition for Robinson's youth foundation at the Valley Arena in Los Angeles, anybody remember this?..Sugar Ray trained at the Famous Main St. Gym, Sugar said "I gotta keep in shape, man" "My old lady cooks that soul food and I love to eat. This is not a machine. This is a body and you've gotta take care of it. You can never quit."

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Oscar Bonavena walking away from his down opponent who I think is Manuel Ramos, not sure though.

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Words don't hurt Antonio Margarito

Margarito, who was suspended for having plaster in his hand wraps, has a rematch with Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden on Saturday.

By Lance Pugmire

November 30, 2011

Reporting from New York — At this point, Antonio Margarito realizes he's not going to change anyone's opinion about whether he knew there was plaster inside his hand wraps before a title fight in 2009 — which led to him being suspended from boxing.

If fans wants to think of him as a "criminal," as his Saturday-night opponent Miguel Cotto does, then so be it.

"Here comes a criminal, open the doors for the criminal," Margarito said Wednesday, his first words upon being introduced at a Madison Square Garden news conference for his junior-middleweight title bout against Cotto. "They say I'm not a gentleman, not a great person. I don't know why they say that."

Those closest to the "Tijuana Tornado" say Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) doesn't care much about what others think.

The controversy dates to January 2009, when the California State Athletic Commission removed plaster-caked inserts from inside Margarito's hand wraps before his welterweight title defense against Shane Mosley at Staples Center. Margarito denied knowing his gloves were loaded, but his license was revoked for a year.

Some in the boxing community also wondered if Margarito had used loaded gloves five months earlier when he knocked out then-unbeaten champion Cotto in their July 2008 bout.

Certainly, Margarito is likely to be booed unmercifully Saturday at Madison Square Garden by supporters by of the popular Puerto Rican star Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs), who is defending his WBA junior-middleweight title.

"It's been going on for more than two years now," said Robert Garcia, Margarito's trainer. "If anything, those people saying negative things about him motivates him to do better."

Margarito's promoter Bob Arum said his Mexican fighter's tough attitude defines his come-forward fighting style. However, that style didn't serve Margarito well in losses to Mosley or to Manny Pacquiao in November 2010.

But it convinced Arum to invest what he said was more than $1 million to fight legal challenges for Margarito to regain his boxing license. Arum also paid for Margarito's cataract surgery in May after Pacquiao broke an orbital bone.

Margarito, 33, said he is healthy and expects to beat Cotto, 31, again. Margarito says a win in their rematch will prove that his 11th-round knockout of Cotto in 2008 wasn't spoiled by loaded gloves.

"He'll feel my power," Margarito said. "I fight clean. Cotto will see that. I'll impose my strength on him."

Margarito also said that Cotto's lack of interest in moving their bout to a different state if Margarito couldn't get a license in New York showed "he's just a big baby."

"He feels an advantage here [in New York]. He needs that security. I don't understand that. It makes me believe, 'Does he really want this fight?' " Margarito said.

When told Cotto will try to exploit Margarito's weakened eye, the challenger said, "There's a lot of anger. A lot of hatred. Someone will be hurt in this fight."

Things were so testy at the news conference that Arum stood between Cotto and Margarito as they posed for typical face-off pictures.

"He can hit at my eye as much as he wants, he hits like a little girl," Margarito said.

Cotto answered, "Say that in the ring."

Then Cotto defended his use of the word "criminal" in describing Margarito: "You can look it up in the dictionary. It's someone who uses a weapon. You're an embarrassment to boxing."

Like Arum said last week when New York gave Margarito a boxing license: "We have a fight!"

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[CNorkusJr]

The Cotto vs Margarito fight is close to a sell out if not sold out. Ticket sales were brisk at the very beginning,but the New York crowd caught on to this as the pre-lims were announced. Expect a huge Puerto Rican support for Cotto. Not much mention here in the dailies about Margarito past history and suspension. I am sure Arum wanted to keep that part of the media as far as possible away from the event and paid the writers well for it.

New York Athletic Comm was put on the spot for this one. Very rarely does the commission find itself with its back against the wall-but the licensing hassle and the surrounding controversy put Melvina Lathan it a tight spot. Its no secret that New York doesnt get the BIG host fights like it used to. It does however, picks and chooses and bids well to the promoters to see if they can make a buck on what can sell out the Garden. This fight is one of them. The Puerto Rican crowd will fill the upper rafters of the newly renovated Garden, and the big buyers will splurge for the Ringsides, since fights are few and long between here.

A blurb in the paper that might be considered small print stated- the New York AC doctors didnt want to sign off on Margarito's license for this one. Between closed doors,there must have been one hell of a meeting with the NYSAC Officials on this. The following day-they said they were going to outside doctors for the approval which would be honored.
Bottom line- New York gets the fight and the money goes round and round.


It will be interesting to see how much PPV support this fight will get.(I am not sure it is a PPV event-maybe HBO ?) but if is a PPV event,the undercard might take the sting out the Main Event bust-my opinion. Watch for an early stoppage to protect this guys eye.

[Bobbin & Weavin]

Mel Epstein & Mike Nixon

I have been looking for this newspaper clipping, given to me by my late trainer Mel Epstein, for almost 15 years. I found it today while I was cleaning out the garage. I thought you might enjoy putting a face to all those stories Rick and I have told.

From the San Francisco Examiner, dated August 23, 1971

Randy, Mel Epstein at last, what a character. Rick mentioned screw woims and bastid's, I find myself saying it often Mike Nixon, I have a Boxing magazine from 1971 where Nixon and the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson did a exhibition for Robinson's youth foundation at the Valley Arena in Los Angeles, anybody remember this?..Sugar Ray trained at the Famous Main St. Gym, Sugar said "I gotta keep in shape, man" "My old lady cooks that soul food and I love to eat. This is not a machine. This is a body and you've gotta take care of it. You can never quit."

Randy,
I actually think that picture was taken in Newmen's Gym in San Francisco, I can see just enough of it in the background to recognize it. I saw Mike Nixon train there during that period and once lent him my sparring gloves to work with Emile Griffith. This picture was obviously staged for the newspaper photographer otherwise Mike would be wearing hand wraps. I may even have some pictures I or my father took of them sparring.
Bruce

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MUSLIM GREETING-Elijah Muhammad, left, of Black Muslim sect, shakes hands with heavyweight
boxing champion Cassius Clay at Black Muslim rally attended by 5,000 members in Olympic Auditorium.

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1958. Chico Vejar & Pajarito Moreno.

[Cholo]

1958. Chico Vejar & Pajarito Moreno.

Frank, Chico Vejar another Aragon opponent, Art took a unanimous decision over him at the Hollywood Legion March, 1958.. Chico also starred in the movie World In My Corner 1956 with Audie Murphy..