Can anyone identify this classic Los Angeles boxing match??

[scartissue]

wait a minute.....that guy announcing looks like Joe Biden. And that's NOT ME pickin' my nose in the background.

LOL! I don't think Joe Biden could've ever carried a tune like Jimmy Lennon.

[BoxBuzz]

wait a minute.....that guy announcing looks like Joe Biden. And that's NOT ME pickin' my nose in the background.

LOL! I don't think Joe Biden could've ever carried a tune like Jimmy Lennon.

So that's JL senior in the pic?

[yancey]

wait a minute.....that guy announcing looks like Joe Biden. And that's NOT ME pickin' my nose in the background.

LOL! I don't think Joe Biden could've ever carried a tune like Jimmy Lennon.

So that's JL senior in the pic?

Definitely JL Sr. He was great.

I wonder what happened to that old ring and canvas when Olympic closed.

I remember that blue canvas from watching Quarry-Patterson II on TV.

[klompton]

Meanwhile today I uncovered the earliest film now known to exist of Benny Leonard boxing.

[klompton]

Buckminster Fuller
John Y. Simon
Paul Simon

among others have all published from Carbondale. The latter two I knew personally. Id say Im in pretty good company.

[evrenb]

Dont rise to the TROLL steve...regardless of anything else the book is a stunning piece of work...and you should be proud.

[BoxBuzz]

agreed.....

"work" is an entirely different skill set from "imagineering".

[BoxBuzz]

Well....he's an obsessive digger at times. So it's not at all beyond possibility.

[klompton]

Agree,,

It looks like a mid-1960's bout, going by the spectators attire.

The left ear of the Spanish fighter looks to be a partial Cauliflower-Ear.

And he clearly looks bigger than his opponent, almost like a Light Middleweight
versus a Light-Welterweight.

Take a look at those mid-1960's Neckties.

Thin was in.............

[klompton]

Eddie Garcia started out as a featherweight and fought most of his career around 130, as the poster you posted suggests. The point is he was naturally smaller than the Jr welterweight fields, not larger, and certainly not a jr middleweight. Just another example of you being wrong again.

[BoxBuzz]

Hey Il duce......if you want to chime in on one of Klompton's threads and be helpful, or simply commentary fine. But no more personal derogatory comments within a thread that he begins. I'd ask the same of Klompton, but he seems to be operating in that civil zone without being asked.

I'm going to bleach out all personal comments....this one time.

[klompton]

Hey Il duce......if you want to chime in on one of Klompton's threads and be helpful, or simply commentary fine. But no more personal derogatory comments within a thread that he begins. I'd ask the same of Klompton, but he seems to be operating in that civil zone without being asked.

I'm going to bleach out all personal comments....this one time.

You offered to wipe him from this post then do it. Nobody wants his "input" and hes contributed nothing as usual. I originally made this post to uncover the truth about this film. This guy wouldnt know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the ass.

[raylawpc]

If it is Garcia v. Fields, you're gonna feel kinda silly . . .

Why would I feel silly? Im the one that identified it. All Douche did was take the information I posted and then reposted it with a couple of facts he found on boxrec and google. Douche originally stated it was from the mid 60s, which it wasnt, and looked like a light middle (the latino fighter) against a light welter (the black fighter) when in reality it was a featherweight (the latino) against a lightweight (the black fighter).

I didn't see your original post. Sorry.

[SenorPipino]

wait a minute.....that guy announcing looks like Joe Biden. .

So that's JL senior in the pic?

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I feel real old when even hardore boxing aficionados fail to recognize iconic ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Sr.

I grew up on Lennon. Even before I became interested in the in-ring action, I always tuned into the Olympic's televised Thursday night fightcard just to be mesmerized by Lennon's fluid intros of the combatants.
I would even mimic his delivery in class, always getting reprimanded by some instructor who apparently didn't appreciate my homage to the announcing legend.

Lennon called himself the "Irishman with the Mexican accent," as there wasn't a Spanish name he couldn't accurately pronounce in his mellifluous tone.
Splendidly attired in a tux, even though he toiled for decades in the thoroughly working class Olympic, Jimmy Lennon Sr. was a class act who should be instantly recognizable to any serious fan of the fight game.
He was The Greatest of All Time.

He passed away nearly 22 years ago, on April 20, 1992.

[BoxBuzz]

Senor Pipino....forgive my sense of humor....

I was totally kidding....I had my butt in those seats many times during that era. But he did look a bit like Biden in that one odd frame. He was one of the greats. Oh....and that really was not me pickin' my nose in that same frame.

Me asking if that was really him....from my reference point was like asking was that really Ronald Reagan, or Joe Louis, or Ali, or Johnny Carson.

Folks that (to my way of thinking) would not could not be mistaken for another.

[Chuck1052]

I figured that the bout in question took place during the late 1960s or the early 1970s because there were men with sideburns in the crowd, something that you saw rarely before 1965.

Jimmy Lennon Sr. went to great lengths to make sure that he pronounced the names of all fighters correctly when introducing them. He did his job in a very professional manner without calling a great deal of attention to himself and seemed to give the impression that the fighters should be the center of attention. He was a truly beloved figure in the Los Angeles boxing scene for a number of decades.

- Chuck Johnston

[SenorPipino]

Senor Pipino....forgive my sense of humor....

I was totally kidding....I had my butt in those seats many times during that era. But he did look a bit like Biden in that one odd frame. He was one of the greats. Oh....and that really was not me pickin' my nose in that same frame.

Me asking if that was really him....from my reference point was like asking was that really Ronald Reagan, or Joe Louis, or Ali, or Johnny Carson.

Folks that (to my way of thinking) would not could not be mistaken for another.

Okay BoxBuzz, I'll give you a pass.
But to prove you're sincere, you have to pen a glowing tribute to Harry Balogh.
I'm sure Jimmy Lennon would approve.