Tomorrow (Friday, January 11th, 2013) Marvin Camel Interview

[HomicideHenry]

What would you guys like to be asked? Cus I will be interviewing him on the air...

And we may also have Duane Bobick, even though his wife says he is in pretty bad shape.

So you guys come up with what you want asked of these two great warriors.

[HomicideHenry]

Will do I will indeed ask him that question.

[Brutu]

Please ask Duane Bobick if its true that he had the manuscript of his autobiography just about ready to be published,
before he lost to Teofilo Stevenson after which it was reportedly shelved,
and if so does he still have the manuscript and if he would consider publishing it,
as its part of boxing history if he does have it.

[HomicideHenry]

I called Duane back last night, and his wife informed me that he is unable to do the show. Mind you, Mr. Bobick is in pretty bad shape, his wife informed me that he goes to an adult day care program during the day because of his pugilistic dementia. She told me he has short term memory loss and sometimes gets off track and says things that don't quite make sense. So I hope you all understand why he couldn't be on the show tonight. She did tell me maybe next week he could.

We are working on getting Chuck Wepner on the show tonight in the next four hours. So if anyone has questions for Chuck let them roll quickly.

[HomicideHenry]

Lmao, dont forget Wepner also 'fought' Antonio Inoki and he also fought that wrestling Bear

[HomicideHenry]

Cobb vs Wepner with the winner to meet Tony Galento would have been awesome

[Giancarlo]

Sad news about Bobick.

[HomicideHenry]

It is. I knew in 2011 he was dianosed with dementia, but I didnt realize it progressed that rapidly. Thats why I decided to make my questions very short and simple when interviewing him, and have his wife assist him with the questions. Maybe next week we will get him.

[Rover]

Lmao, dont forget Wepner also 'fought' Antonio Inoki and he also fought that wrestling Bear

Victor the Bear!

[Rover]

Sad news about Bobick.

[HomicideHenry]

OKAY GUYS..... 20 mins the radio show starts....

Guest line up:

JAMES "MIGHTY QUINN" MCDONAUGH of "Knuckle" fame

"THE REAL ROCKY" CHUCK WEPNER

MARVIN CAMEL

7pm EST through 9pm EST, @ www.atgradio.com

Call in # is 347 934 0137

[Brutu]

Please ask Chuck Wepner what the status is concerning his autobiography that he said he was working on
on his official web page as far back as 1999?
Is he waiting for some people to pass away before he publishes it?(Like Jack OHalloran and Barbara Walters did before they published his books).

[HomicideHenry]

Well guys the interview went off without a hitch, Chuck told a few jokes and was quite personal at times. Im sorry I wasnt on BoxRec at the time to see ur last few questions, but he did talk about Terrell a bit, as well as Randy Neumann, George Foreman, Duane Bobick, etc. Duce he did answer ur jesting question of "Who was he more afraid of?" he said "Victor The Bear, eight foot tall and 1,500 pounds, I was scared to death" lmao, and I did mention earlier BoxRec discussions about Al Braverman trying to get Chuck into fighting either Quarry or Frazier. Wepner was honest about it, he said he was the one who backed out of talks with Joe Frazier cus he said he didnt feel he was ready one iota for Joe. As for Quarry he said that didnt happen because since him and Quarry were the only white guys essentially in and around the top ten, it didnt make sense to have eachother fight because that would be one less white guy to fight one of the top black guys. Wepner also talked some about his match with Andre The Giant, he came clean and said it was all a show, but he did make one interesting comment, he said he wished he would of went into wrestling instead of boxing because wrestlers under Vince McMahon Sr. made more money than he did while boxing. We didnt get into the Stallone lawsuit though. He did make a joke about him being second in the world for the most stitches in a career, and said he told Braverman he wanted to have one more fight so he could be #1. He was a real funny guy, really nice.

As for Marvin Camel, it was a lengthier interview, and he did say it never crossed his mind to fight Matthew Saad Muhammad for the 175 pound title because he had beaten Mate Parlov who was the former WBC champion light heavyweight. But you can tell there's still alot of pain and anguish in his memories, because he said the loss to Carlos DeLeon bothered him tremendously, but the one that bothered him the most was when he lost the IBF Cruiserweight title on a TKO in between rounds. He felt that the referee had screwed him over and had no business in saying the fight was over, his rationale was "I have a cutman who has one minute to fix my cuts, let him do his job and you do yours" more or less. He went in detail a bit about life on the reservation and his relationship with Eddie Futch and his thoughts on Holyfield ("In my prime I would have given him a run for his money") and it was all around a good show.

[Brutu]

yeah,we were just discussing Chuck Wepner here in a thread a few days ago.
About how he sparred over 70 rounds with Joe Frazier when Frazier was preparing to fight
Tony Alongi sometime in June 1966 in LA.(Alongi pulled out).
(the info about the cancelled 1966 bout I got from an Eastside Boxing thread).
I wasnt able to find a newspaper account from 1966 at the free google newspaper archives mentioning it though.

[HomicideHenry]

Chuck did make mention that he was also a sparring partner of Sonny Liston's for a time too. He also talked at length about his dad who boxed as well, saying his father was a sparring partner for all kinds of guys including Jack Dempsey.

[Brutu]

So Wepner did accept Liston's camp offer in November 1964 to become a sparring partner?
Seems kind of a silly choice when you figure Liston was training to fight a young Muhammad Ali.
Liston just probably needed someone to beat on.
Surely Wepner became well aquainted with Liston's jab back then.

[Brutu]

This is why Chuck Wepner should be asked as often as possible to publish his memoirs.
To fill in the shadowy gaps in the Golden Age of Heavyweights and to correct any errors that have been written about him
over the past 45 years.
I never knew his father was also a professional boxer(or maybe I once did ,but since forgot).

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

Maybe he could also write a chapter about the stories that were passed down by his father and that era too.
I wonder if he knew Tony Galento back then?

[HomicideHenry]

So Wepner did accept Liston's camp offer in November 1964 to become a sparring partner?
Seems kind of a silly choice when you figure Liston was training to fight a young Muhammad Ali.
Liston just probably needed someone to beat on.
Surely Wepner became well aquainted with Liston's jab back then.

As Chuck said it on my show, that he fought Liston because he was certain that he could of beaten Liston because Liston was so much older than he was when Wepner was a sparring partner for him that he figured since he was on the way up and Liston was on the way down it would have been likely he could of beaten Liston. Unfortunately he was dead wrong in his estimation of Sonny, and he said that to this day that it was the hardest fight of his career. I know he did mention fighting Foreman, cus I asked him whether it was true his eye ball got knocked out of its socket in that fight, and he said he fought George for almost the same reasons cus Foreman only had a few fights he figured he could of handled the Olympian. However, Chuck said while he could handle Foreman's jab it was George's left hook that bothered him, and it knocked a bone through his eye lid. Chuck said when Al Braverman saw that in between rounds he told Chuck "I cant fix that, the fights over" and Braverman was the best cut man of his era, if not all times.

[HomicideHenry]

This is why Chuck Wepner should be asked as often as possible to publish his memoirs.
To fill in the shadowy gaps in the Golden Age of Heavyweights and to correct any errors that have been written about him
over the past 45 years.
I never knew his father was also a professional boxer(or maybe I once did ,but since forgot).

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

Maybe he could also write a chapter about the stories that were passed down by his father and that era too.
I wonder if he knew Tony Galento back then?

I know Chuck said on the radio show that his dad was essentially a 'gym fighter' and worked part time as a sparring partner for guys like Dempsey and Jim Braddock and Delaney, but that he worked also as a bouncer in bars and clubs across Jersey.