Mitch Blood Green

[Brutu]

Did he really get almost half a million in damages?

Err,no make that only $45,000 in damages he recieved.
(scroll down for article)

http://books.google.com/books?id=WjsDAA ... pg=PA47&dq

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another cancelled fight of Mitch Green's was supposed to be against Shannon Briggs
December.15.1995 at MSG on the undercard of Oscar De La Hoya vs Jesse James Leijas.But a week before it,Mitch Green went berserk over something at his managers office and wrecked the place(It does not say in this article,but I think his manager at the time was Rock Newman?)

http://www.news.google.com/newspapers?i ... 3155229&dq

Oh, that brings back memories!

Don't think it was Rock Newman, though.

[Brutu]

here another news article about Mitch Green from September 1988,
which unfortantely isnt about the actual boxing aspect of his career.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OB ... 3359926&dq

[Brutu]

Here is some rare (boxing) video of Mitch Green.
Mitch Green vs Calvin Cross
April-18- 1977
Inter- finals NYC.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqGSKdkVOzw

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here another news article about Mitch Green from September 1988,
which unfortantely isnt about the actual boxing aspect of his career.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OB ... 3359926&dq

What the heck is "seventh-degree" possession of a controlled substance?

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Here is some rare (boxing) video of Mitch Green.
Mitch Green vs Calvin Cross
April-18- 1977
Inter- finals NYC.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqGSKdkVOzw

Back when Blood still had a right hand (apparently injured in the street?).

"Floyd Patterson at ringside"!

[Brutu]

Here is an interview with Mitch Green from june 2005.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing ... id=2075395

[Brutu]

Maybe this is the site I was thinking of,but it hasn't been upated in several years.
There are a couple of interviews here and some photo's too.
(It says here he was working as a bouncer at least in 2007)

http://www.myspace.com/mitchbloodgreen/blog

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Here is an interview with Mitch Green from june 2005.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing ... id=2075395

Whatever movie Tyson next appears in, I hope they give a cameo to Blood!

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I heard the cult movie The Warriors was somehow inspired by Blood's real-life gang-leader past -- any truth to this?

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Facebook page for Blood

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mitch-Blo ... 331?ref=ts

[Brutu]

I dont know about that,but
Ive been wondering for the past 25 years,if Mitch Green wasnt the inspiration
for the character in this movie too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N1Q8D6dqE

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I dont know about that,but
Ive been wondering for the past 25 years,if Mitch Green wasnt the inspiration
for the character in this movie too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N1Q8D6dqE

Cool scene! Next time I go to the movies, I think I'll try eating my popcorn with chopsticks.

[Brutu]

Here is a link to corbisimages of an action photo from Mike Tyson vs Mitch Green.

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo ... ch?popup=1

[Brutu]

And another action photo.

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo ... en?popup=1

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And another action photo.

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo ... en?popup=1

Thanks for the awesome photos, Brutu!

I'd like to see more.

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According to boxrec,Mitch Green just stopped and refused to throw punches
at Bruce Johnson in their 1993 bout.
its recorded recorded as TKO 3
I never could find out why Green just stopped punching.

He felt he wasn't being adequately paid so refused to fight. The ref kept ordering him to fight and he wouldn't so the ref stopped it. God that must have been strange to see. Wasn't on TV.

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According to boxrec,Mitch Green just stopped and refused to throw punches
at Bruce Johnson in their 1993 bout.
its recorded recorded as TKO 3
I never could find out why Green just stopped punching.

He felt he wasn't being adequately paid so refused to fight. The ref kept ordering him to fight and he wouldn't so the ref stopped it. God that must have been strange to see. Wasn't on TV.

I admire his resolve.

This Mitch "Blood" Green thread, despite a slow start, is flourishing!

Let's make it the pride of the "Boxers of the Past" forum!

[Brutu]

I heard the cult movie The Warriors was somehow inspired by Blood's real-life gang-leader past -- any truth to this?

I've heard that too, but, no clue whether it's true or not.

I think it was actually the gang that he was a member of "The Black Spades"
that was used as a basis for one of the gangs in the 1978 movie.
Reporedly Iran Barkley was also a member of that gang.
It was one of the biggest gangs in New York City in the early 1970's.
Mitch Green was a leader in a division in Harlem or Queens in NYC,
and Iran Barkley was a member in a division in South Bronx.
Barkley joined the Black Spades when he was 11 and living at the Patterson
housing complex in the South Bronx.
I havent seen the movie in over 20 years,so I cant remember which
gang leader in it that may have been based on Mitch Green in the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spades

[Brutu]

I seem to remember Mitch Green in several small parts in some movies,

including as a bodyguard in the movie American Gangster starring Denzel Washinton.

here is a link to some of his movie credits.

http://imdb.com/name/nm1634988/

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I seem to remember Mitch Green in several small parts in some movies,

including as a bodyguard in the movie American Gangster starring Denzel Washinton.

here is a link to some of his movie credits.

http://imdb.com/name/nm1634988/

Any footage of these? Would love to see some.

Sure it is the same Mitch Green?

[Brutu]

here are a couple more action photo's from Tyson vs Green.


http://www.antekprizering.com/tysongreenposter.html

and

http://www.antekprizering.com/greentyson1138.html

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I heard the cult movie The Warriors was somehow inspired by Blood's real-life gang-leader past -- any truth to this?

I've heard that too, but, no clue whether it's true or not.

Don't think it is true. The movie is based on a novel, which in turn was absed ona Greek myth.

Years ago a friend of mine had a video game fro his Sega. The big bad boss at the end who you had to fight to win was a dead ringer for Mitch.

I agree with Mugabi's comments that the commentary was as if they just wnated Green to lie down and be KO'd. The British commentary was very different.

[Brutu]

Was the British showing of Tyson vs Green taken and shown there from
another camera angle on the opposite side of the ring?
I know that was done with Muhammad Ali vs Earnie Shavers bout in 1977,
and Im sure other fights that were broadcast by different networks.
The book the Warriors was based on was first published in 1965,
when Mitch Green was about 8.
I think the producers of the movie did some research on the gangs of New York,
especially the new gangs that had arisen since the late 1960's
for the basis of the various gangs used in the movie.
On the ringside commentery of that fight ,Larry Merchant had said that as a gang leader
Mitch Green had 120 men in his employ.

http://books.google.com/books?id=LwaXZp ... pg=PA54&dq

[Brutu]

http://www.antekprizering.com/tysongreenpa.jpeg