Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

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would anyone know from what documentary that clip came from ?
I think it may be from either an unfinished or "lost" one produced by Jim Jacobs.
Looks to be from around 1967 to me.

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I thought maybe it may have been a clip from a TV programme The Battle of the Champions
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Cus D'Amato (age 62 yrs in 1970) looks to be older in Battle of the Champions.

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Cud D'Amato opened the Gramercy Park Gym in in 1936
on 114th East 14th street in Lower Manhatten.
it was a loft that he rented for 40 dollars a month.
you had to go up three flights of rickety stairs
( his dog was behind chicken wire before you went up the stairs.
He sold the gym around 1966
the building was razed in 1993 for a housing development.

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-1959-

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-August 1982-

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Cus D'Amato had moved from Rhinebeck New York (where he had been training Buster Mathis)
to Catskill in 1970.
look how "old school" dark and gloomy the gyms were back the,
BTW they over-laid the wrong type of music over this clip. No way they had listened to that crap back in 1974.

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a now (rarely) seen interview taped July.2.1985

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the first 8 minutes of this clip is from 1989, the part with Cus D'Amato beginning at about 8:35
looks to be from May 1984.

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this was recorded around September 1984

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This was recorded around October 1984

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Do you realize that sometime during the month of March of 1980.
Bobby Stewart had driven Mike Tyson (13)up to the Catskills from Tryon near Johnstown New York
to meet Cus D'Amato for the first time ? (Teddy Atlas was also there)

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I was reading in a book, that Cus D'Amato was training this guy(Joey Juliano) in 1939
at the By's Club on 1st Avenue for the amateurs, and that Rocco Barbella took his place(due to tonsillitis)
in the Metropolitan A.A.U championships and Rocco Barbella went on to win the AAU welterweight title !

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/84373

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check out this article from 1985 by his friend Pete Hamil.

https://villagevoice.com/up-the-stairs-with-cus-damato/

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check out this article from the February.25.1957 edition of LIFE magazine.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rEEEA ... pg=PA57&dq

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-1970-

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It has been said that when Cus D'Amato was growing up during the late 1920's ,that he had 'aspired"
to be another Tony Canzoneri
( btw how have you been pronouncing "Tony Canzoneri" over the years ?

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Beau Jack-Cus D'Amato's favorite lightweight !

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Mike Tyson had said that Cus D'Amato had plastered the walls of the Catskill Boxing Club gym,
with posters of self empowering sayings and poems
too bad Cus D'Amato himself didn't do a version of his favorite poem with his Bronx accent
here is one on youtube that is the closest I could find that sort of sounds like a New York City accent
this one sounds a bit like director Martin Scorsese
(from midtown Manhattan)reading it tho.

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In reading Mike Tyson's books, it would appear that Cus D'Amato had an interest in the "off-beat".

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Seriously, who are you talking to?

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The Gramercy Gym (established 1939)
116 EAST 14th Street-Lower Manhattan NYC
-1959-

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6 years later at the Gramercy Gym and the introduction of the "Willie Bag".
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