Boxer's "Body-Guards"

Caractacus · Post by **Caractacus** » 14 Dec 2021, 19:00

who were some of the more well known ones and what was their back-ground
that made them a "body-guard" ?

goose 5 · Post by **goose 5** » 14 Dec 2021, 19:59

Mr. T for Leon Spinks-T. was a bouncer.

scartissue · Post by **scartissue** » 14 Dec 2021, 22:06

Amazingly, Butch Lewis started out as Joe Frazier's bodyguard. I have no idea his background on why he was hired.

Caractacus · Post by **Caractacus** » 15 Dec 2021, 17:08

One would figure that they would have once been in Law Enforcement.
Is there a school for bodyguards ?

Controversial · Post by **Controversial** » 15 Dec 2021, 17:12

Caractacus wrote: ↑15 Dec 2021, 17:08 One would figure that they would have once been in Law Enforcement.
Is there a school for bodyguards ?

More like ex-military than police I think, most are just huge lumps, there are bodyguard courses but I imagine most don't bother, maybe the ones in charge of high profile people do.

Caractacus · Post by **Caractacus** » 15 Dec 2021, 18:09

Sugar Ray Leonard had a bodyguard named James Anderson' who had been a New Jersey cop.
Muhammad Ali noticed him doing crowd control at one of his fights back in 1973 and asked him to be his bodyguard.
He also was a bodyguard for Mike Tyson.
according to Sugar Ray Leonard, Anderson had a "little black book"
and arranged it so Leonard and his posse
could score with the groupies at various hotels in various cities
( between fights of course).

Caractacus · Post by **Caractacus** » 15 Dec 2021, 18:22

check out this article about Mike Tyson's bodyguard Rudy Gonzalez back in the 1980's
( not sure if he had a background in law enforcement)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nents.html

Caractacus · Post by **Caractacus** » 15 Dec 2021, 18:45

Joe Louis back in the 1930's had a bodyguard by the name of Carl Neslon.
Carl Nelson was a police Sergeant/Detective and was known as the "Bull Dick" of the Chicago Police Station on 48th street.
( the "Bull Dick gave orders to all of the other detectives at the local district station
the Bull dick was not an official position but was placed in that position by the Ward Boss-even the Police Captain
had to take orders from the bull dick)
( and it was the bull dick that was the one who collected the money from the "Policy Wheel" gambling enterprises in the area
and took the money over to the Police Captain there).
Nelson was assigned to protect Joe Louis by his managers Julian Black and John Roxborough
( who were in the numbers buisness of course)

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