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Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 12:13
by Cholo
kikibalt wrote:Cholo wrote:Frank, I wonder if Don Fraser remembers this,
To stimulate interest in the Aragon-Danny Giovanelli fight at Hollywood Legion Stadium in March 1956, Don Fraser, the enterprising publicity man for the Stadium, facetiously signed Harvey Knox as Aragon's trainer.
Knox is the stepfather of the transient football star, Ronnie Knox. Harvey is known as quite a headline grabber himself, and the combination of Harvey and Art, however short-lived, unquestionably was the fastest talking team ever to set foot in a boxing ring.
After Art knocked out Giovanelli in the ninth round, the boxing writers covering the fight crowded into Aragon's dressing room to see who, Art or Harvey, was going to have the last word. Surrounded by so many newspapermen, Art and Harvey became dizzy with inspiration. Art said, "Harvey's a hell of a straight man, isn't he?" Harvey suddenly got into an argument with one of the sportswriters, Bud Furillo of the Los Angeles Herald-Express, for whom he had developed a dislike during the previous football season. Furillo said to Harvey, "You call yourself a second ? you don't even make a good third" Whereupon Harvey led with his right and socked Furillo on the jaw.
After other writers had seperated the two combatants, Aragon said in disgust, "That's Harvey -always trying to steal the glory."
I'll call Don and ask him if he remember that. I remember the Knox's real good.
Frank, Thanks..
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 12:44
by Rick Farris
kikibalt wrote:Is this true?
Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility
Retired boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility to be treated for a substance abuse problem, TMZ reported Saturday.
Sources told TMZ that De La Hoya checked into the rehab facility within the last few weeks. The name and location of the facility and the nature of his substance abuse problem were not immediately known.
The 1992 Olympic Gold Medal winner has been active on Twitter in recent weeks.
On Friday, De La Hoya wrote, "Take a deep breathe and let out all that anger that makes you hate.it really is going to be o.k." and "Stop finding excuses not to live. life is controlled by what you make of it and not of what it makes of you."
De La Hoya had a career record of 39-6 and held several championship belts before retiring in 2009.
Oscar is intelligent. If he is having difficulty with something, it seems like he's trying to do something about it.
Small people need something to talk about. Dont let this negative publicity break your stride, champ.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 12:47
by Rick Farris
Viva Jofre! Viva Brazil!
The best boxers are smart, and I don't know of any who were better or smarter than Eder Jofre.
After he hung up the gloves for good, he went into politics. Today in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, Eder Jofre is the Mayor.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 13:26
by Rick Farris
Panzerfaust wrote:@ Rick, loved the Mel Epstein memories
Remy, I thank you for encouraging me to share them. This forces me to relive them in my mind, thus keeping them alive. I'm not religeous, but I'm spiritual.
I believe that a spirit thrives in the memories of those it's touched. I appreciate Mel today, more than ever. Mel's spirit breathes here, thru Randy and I.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 14:06
by Rick Farris
Mel, Money and The Mob . . .
Mel Epstein wanted no part of Jerry McCauley's generosity.
"Your manager is hooked-up. Don't think I don't know it. He's from Ohio, like Suey. Get the picture?"
Mel ranted on, "He gives you and Gil King each a car, money, and all you gotta do is ride around with him one morning a week?"
"He likes to parade you and that bum around like your his race horses, but you haven't won a Kentucky Derby, have you?" Mel puntuated his point with a smirk.
Mel would be on a roll, "Your manager . . ." he'd say sarcasticly, "comes up to me today and hands me a C-note and tells me to buy the kid dinner tonight."
"So I tells the bastid, I buy you dinner every night. He trys to hand me more cash, but I don't want it."
"Everybody thinks I'm crazy but he can't buy me, that phony Phil Silvers kisses his ass, not me. I'm not rich, I'm on a fixed income, but I don't need him."
Mel then lowers his voice to a whisper, even though we are all alone, "You know, your manager keeps Mike Mazurki's restaurant going at the Elk's building."
Mel continued, "Mazurki told me he'd have gone under long ago, but Jerry pays the bills by ordering food for everybody, kicks in for the rent, etc."
Maybe Jerry McCauley wasn't so bad after all?
However, Mel would never admit it. Business man or not, in Mel's eyes Jerry was a gangster.
Mel's grizzled face softens, "And I was in a union up North, on the docks, we had a great union. I have a small pension, and I have you, the "Obstinate Kid".
Mel would smile, having calmed himself from one his little personal fiascos.
-Rick Farris
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 15:10
by kikibalt
Groves makes fools of us all
It is difficult to think of a sport with the capacity to make people look as foolish as boxing. And not just the participants. At Saturday's post-fight news conference at the O2 Arena, some of the journalists looked as sheepish as James DeGale.
Intelligence is not a trait always associated with the fight game, which is not surprising: even by boxing's standards, the hot air exhaled by DeGale before his shock defeat to George Groves was enough to singe the hairs of your nostrils.
But Groves demonstrated intelligence in spades to upset the odds and wrest the British super-middleweight crown from his arch rival, who he also beat as an amateur in 2007.
The pundits thought there was no way the challenger could prevail fighting the way he did. And they were probably right. So Groves rewrote the blueprint.
"I wasn't sure what he was going to do," admitted DeGale, who looked close to tears during a grim post-mortem. "He said he was going to come out and knock me out in four rounds. But from the first bell he started to move around the ring and I thought, 'oh, here we go'."
That was the closest DeGale came to admitting he had been outfoxed. But outfoxed he had been. "What, he thought I 'nicked' the fight because I didn't come and give it to him?" countered an understandably elated Groves. Just as he had been countering all night.
The accepted wisdom was that the 23-year-old Groves knew only one way to operate, that he was a come-forward fighter with a ragged defence and a tendency to lose his shape when it was time to mix it. Trainer Adam Booth, perhaps the wiliest in the business, knew otherwise.
Booth spent pretty much the whole fight instructing his charge to "step", the plan being to keep DeGale out of range, keep him frustrated, and clip him when he missed. It was boxing's equivalent of a mousetrap, laid by a trainer DeGale had dismissed as a "glorified fitness coach".
"We worked on punching long and outclassing James DeGale," said Groves. "As soon as he went to open up, I just wasn't there. And as soon as he fell short, I'd catch him. Adam is a little bit more than a fitness coach, he knows a little bit about boxing."
DeGale's assessment of the tactic was poignant in its naivety. "I was a little bit surprised he fought on the back foot, I thought he was going to come to fight," said the 25-year-old, who came through the ranks with Groves at Dale Youth amateur boxing club before striking Olympic gold in 2008.
"I said to him at one point, 'come on, fight me, fight me'. He nicked the fight - if he's proud of that, then let him be."
DeGale's promoter allegedly, although he thought his man should have been awarded the decision, was more realistic.
"When you've got the class that James has, you've got to be emphatic and leave the judges in no doubt," said Warren. "George did what he had to do and he caught two of the judges' eyes. You can't go crying over decisions."
Booth is in the business of drilling his fighters to "do what they have to do". We saw it from David Haye in his victory over Nikolay Valuev in 2009, and I have a funny feeling we will see it again when he fights Wladimir Klitschko in July.
In short, Booth is not worried what people think about him, he is only worried what is right for his fighters. Which is why an immediate rematch is unlikely, whatever Warren or the British Boxing Board of Control have to say about it.
While the majority of the journalists ringside thought it was DeGale who had nicked it, the consensus was it was a horrible fight to score and it could have gone either way.
So Groves should feel no shame in denying DeGale a rematch, as Warren suggested he should. "I've cleaned up the domestic scene," said Groves with understandable relish, "it's onto bigger and better things."
Perhaps they will meet again in a couple of years when they both hold portions of the super-middleweight world title - perhaps they won't. But for now, it is "the ugly ginger kid", as DeGale dubbed his nemesis, who holds the bragging rights down at Dale Youth ABC.
"The whole nation was behind me but didn't think I was going to win," said Groves. "But who's going to be able to hold his head highest down west London now? I guess that's me."
As for DeGale, he only has to look at the careers of Haye and Amir Khan to realise an early career defeat is not necessarily calamitous. And there is nothing like being made to look foolish to focus the mind on bigger and brighter things.
Talking of wily tacticians, is there a wilier operator in all of sport than 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins? On Saturday, the ageless 'Executioner' became the oldest ever boxing world champion when he defeated Jean Pascal for the WBC light-heavyweight crown in Montreal.
Earlier in London, Wales' newly-crowned WBO light-heavyweight king Nathan Cleverly defended his title for the first time with a fourth-round stoppage of Poland's rugged Aleksy Kuziemski, before declaring: "Let's get the big fights on."
Now is the time for Warren to tug on Cleverly's reins. The 24-year-old is an exciting talent with a dazzling variety of shots, but Hopkins, and even Pascal, would be too soon. Liverpool's Tony Bellew, who bangs hard and makes lots of noise, would be a more sensible short-term option. Hopkins can keep until he is 50.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 18:58
by Rick Farris
Rick Farris wrote:Mel, Money and The Mob . . .
Mel Epstein wanted no part of Jerry McCauley's generosity.
"Your manager is hooked-up. Don't think I don't know it. He's from Ohio, like Suey. Get the picture?"
Mel ranted on, "He gives you and Gil King each a car, money, and all you gotta do is ride around with him one morning a week?"
"He likes to parade you and that bum around like your his race horses, but you haven't won a Kentucky Derby, have you?" Mel puntuated his point with a smirk.
Mel would be on a roll, "Your manager . . ." he'd say sarcasticly, "comes up to me today and hands me a C-note and tells me to buy the kid dinner tonight."
"So I tells the bastid, I buy you dinner every night. He trys to hand me more cash, but I don't want it."
"Everybody thinks I'm crazy but he can't buy me, that phony Phil Silvers kisses his ass, not me. I'm not rich, I'm on a fixed income, but I don't need him."
Mel then lowers his voice to a whisper, even though we are all alone, "You know, your manager keeps Mike Mazurki's restaurant going at the Elk's building."
Mel continued, "Mazurki told me he'd have gone under long ago, but Jerry pays the bills by ordering food for everybody, kicks in for the rent, etc."
Maybe Jerry McCauley wasn't so bad after all?
However, Mel would never admit it. Business man or not, in Mel's eyes Jerry was a gangster.
Mel's grizzled face softens, "And I was in a union up North, on the docks, we had a great union. I have a small pension, and I have you, the "Obstinate Kid".
Mel would smile, having calmed himself from one his little personal fiascos.
-Rick Farris
Jerry McCauley was an interesting charactor. Don Fraser and I recently remembered Jerry in conversation.
I'll share something that the Fraser family and I refer to as, "Jerry cars" shortly.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 19:20
by Randyman
Rick Farris wrote:Mel, Money and The Mob . . .
Mel Epstein wanted no part of Jerry McCauley's generosity.
"Your manager is hooked-up. Don't think I don't know it. He's from Ohio, like Suey. Get the picture?"
Mel ranted on, "He gives you and Gil King each a car, money, and all you gotta do is ride around with him one morning a week?"
"He likes to parade you and that bum around like your his race horses, but you haven't won a Kentucky Derby, have you?" Mel puntuated his point with a smirk.
Mel would be on a roll, "Your manager . . ." he'd say sarcasticly, "comes up to me today and hands me a C-note and tells me to buy the kid dinner tonight."
"So I tells the bastid, I buy you dinner every night. He trys to hand me more cash, but I don't want it."
"Everybody thinks I'm crazy but he can't buy me, that phony Phil Silvers kisses his ass, not me. I'm not rich, I'm on a fixed income, but I don't need him."
Mel then lowers his voice to a whisper, even though we are all alone, "You know, your manager keeps Mike Mazurki's restaurant going at the Elk's building."
Mel continued, "Mazurki told me he'd have gone under long ago, but Jerry pays the bills by ordering food for everybody, kicks in for the rent, etc."
Maybe Jerry McCauley wasn't so bad after all?
However, Mel would never admit it. Business man or not, in Mel's eyes Jerry was a gangster.
Mel's grizzled face softens, "And I was in a union up North, on the docks, we had a great union. I have a small pension, and I have you, the "Obstinate Kid".
Mel would smile, having calmed himself from one his little personal fiascos.
-Rick Farris
Ah, the Obstinate Kid", how well I remember Mel's expression when telling that joke. Rick, I enjoy your stories about Mel, you know they have a special meaning to me. I could hear his voice as I was reading. Keep'em coming!
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 19:24
by Randyman
Rick Farris wrote:kikibalt wrote:Is this true?
Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility
Retired boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility to be treated for a substance abuse problem, TMZ reported Saturday.
Sources told TMZ that De La Hoya checked into the rehab facility within the last few weeks. The name and location of the facility and the nature of his substance abuse problem were not immediately known.
The 1992 Olympic Gold Medal winner has been active on Twitter in recent weeks.
On Friday, De La Hoya wrote, "Take a deep breathe and let out all that anger that makes you hate.it really is going to be o.k." and "Stop finding excuses not to live. life is controlled by what you make of it and not of what it makes of you."
De La Hoya had a career record of 39-6 and held several championship belts before retiring in 2009.
Oscar is intelligent. If he is having difficulty with something, it seems like he's trying to do something about it.
Small people need something to talk about. Dont let this negative publicity break your stride, champ.
I agree Rick, I give Oscar credit for facing it head on. Oscar has always been a personal favorite of, not just me but my entire family. I wish him all the best.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 19:30
by Randyman
Sorry I haven't been on too much lately. I've had a lot on my plate lately, Work wise and health wise, and family commitments, sometimes there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day, or days in the week to do everything.
I did see the Hopkins and Pascal fight last night and was glad to see Hopkins win. At 46 Hopkins is reaching his peak. It's amazing how some guys can handle the age better than others. I was glad to see him win.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 19:34
by Randyman
Frank, You've been posting some great photos of Art Aragon lately. Really good stuff and so perfect for this site.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 20:01
by kikibalt
Randyman wrote:
Frank, You've been posting some great photos of Art Aragon lately. Really good stuff and so perfect for this site.
Thanks Randy. I have a few of Keeny Teran, but they are not boxing photos, they are court/jail photos from 1956, I will post some in due time, just have to pick the ones that don't put him in a very bad light, if that's possible....
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 20:28
by Rick Farris
Randyman wrote:Rick Farris wrote:kikibalt wrote:Is this true?
Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility
Retired boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has entered a California rehab facility to be treated for a substance abuse problem, TMZ reported Saturday.
Sources told TMZ that De La Hoya checked into
the rehab facility within the last few weeks. The name and location of the facility and the nature of his substance abuse problem were not immediately known.
The 1992 Olympic Gold Medal winner has been active on Twitter in recent weeks.
On Friday, De La Hoya wrote, "Take a deep breathe and let out all that anger that makes you hate.it really is going to be o.k." and "Stop finding excuses not to live. life is controlled by what you make of it and not of what it makes of you."
De La Hoya had a career record of 39-6 and held several championship belts before retiring in 2009.
Oscar is intelligent. If he is having difficulty with something, it seems like he's trying to do something about it.
Small people need something to talk about. Dont let this negative publicity break your stride, champ.
I agree Rick, I give Oscar credit for facing it head on. Oscar has always been a personal favorite of, not just me but my entire family. I wish him all the best.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 21:22
by Randyman
For what it's worth, I weighed in today for the first time in a decade under 200 pounds, 199 to be exact. I have a ways to go but I feel like this is a major victory for me. I feel pretty damned good! In 2009 I was at 240, about 8 weeks ago I was at 223. Believe it or not I've cut my portions of food to regular puny human size. Can't eat like the old Randy any more. I'm getting used to it. Exercise and hard work, there is no other way!
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 21:25
by Bobbin & Weavin
Randyman wrote:For what it's worth, I weighed in today for the first time in a decade under 200 pounds, 199 to be exact. I have a ways to go but I feel like this is a major victory for me. I feel pretty damned good! In 2009 I was at 240, about 8 weeks ago I was at 223. Believe it or not I've cut my portions of food to regular puny human size. Can't eat like the old Randy any more. I'm getting used to it. Exercise and hard work, there is no other way!
Way to go Randy!!!! We're all rooting for you... I'm working on it too, not having as much success as you yet, but I'm stepping it up. Good job!
Bruce
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 21:42
by Rick Farris
Randyman wrote:For what it's worth, I weighed in today for the first time in a decade under 200 pounds, 199 to be exact. I have a ways to go but I feel like this is a major victory for me. I feel pretty damned good! In 2009 I was at 240, about 8 weeks ago I was at 223. Believe it or not I've cut my portions of food to regular puny human size. Can't eat like the old Randy any more. I'm getting used to it. Exercise and hard work, there is no other way!
A fighter!
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 21:58
by Rick Farris
Randyman wrote:Rick Farris wrote:Mel, Money and The Mob . . .
Mel Epstein wanted no part of Jerry McCauley's generosity.
"Your manager is hooked-up. Don't think I don't know it. He's from Ohio, like Suey. Get the picture?"
Mel ranted on, "He gives you and Gil King each a car, money, and all you gotta do is ride around with him one morning a week?"
"He likes to parade you and that bum around like your his race horses, but you haven't won a Kentucky Derby, have you?" Mel puntuated his point with a smirk.
Mel would be on a roll, "Your manager . . ." he'd say sarcasticly, "comes up to me today and hands me a C-note and tells me to buy the kid dinner tonight."
"So I tells the bastid, I buy you dinner every night. He trys to hand me more cash, but I don't want it."
"Everybody thinks I'm crazy but he can't buy me, that phony Phil Silvers kisses his ass, not me. I'm not rich, I'm on a fixed income, but I don't need him."
Mel then lowers his voice to a whisper, even though we are all alone, "You know, your manager keeps Mike Mazurki's restaurant going at the Elk's building."
Mel continued, "Mazurki told me he'd have gone under long ago, but Jerry pays the bills by ordering food for everybody, kicks in for the rent, etc."
Maybe Jerry McCauley wasn't so bad after all?
However, Mel would never admit it. Business man or not, in Mel's eyes Jerry was a gangster.
Mel's grizzled face softens, "And I was in a union up North, on the docks, we had a great union. I have a small pension, and I have you, the "Obstinate Kid".
Mel would smile, having calmed himself from one his little personal fiascos.
-Rick Farris
Ah, the Obstinate Kid", how well I remember Mel's expression when telling that joke. Rick, I enjoy your stories about Mel, you know they have a special meaning to me. I could hear his voice as I was reading. Keep'em coming!
"You ate the piece I wanted!"
Too bad we couldn't tell the joke here, Randy?
But only Mel could tell it, because only Mel could make that face.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 23:31
by Rick Farris
Mel in the Military . . .
Mel Epstein served in the U.S. Calvary.
He said they would patrol along the US-Mexican border on horses.
I don't know who or what they were looking for, but Mel said they would ride along the banks of the Rio Grande.
"I had this horse that was no good." Epstein said shaking his head.
"Sometimes we'd nap as the horses road along the bank in single file, following the horse in front of them."
Mel's face soured, "But that nag of mine would wait until I dozed off, and the bastid would walk under a low tree branch and try to brush me out of the saddle."
"He would also step too close to the river bank, and sometimes the river would undermine the bank, which meant that I'd wake and find myslf falling into the river with the horse."
"When I finally was discharged, I went up to the horse and fed him an apple. Then I punched the S.O.B. right in the nose!"
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 22 May 2011, 23:38
by Rick Farris
Panzerfaust wrote:Does anyone have a write up of the first Dwight Hawkins-Jose Becerra fight?? must have been a bit of a surprise how it turned out..
I don't have the write up, but Hawkins was a just a young teen when he iced a future legend.
Dwight Hawkins will deservedly be inducted into the CBHOF this year.
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 23 May 2011, 08:54
by Chuck1052
Randyman wrote:For what it's worth, I weighed in today for the first time in a decade under 200 pounds, 199 to be exact. I have a ways to go but I feel like this is a major victory for me. I feel pretty damned good! In 2009 I was at 240, about 8 weeks ago I was at 223. Believe it or not I've cut my portions of food to regular puny human size. Can't eat like the old Randy any more. I'm getting used to it. Exercise and hard work, there is no other way!
That is great news, Randy! Hope that you are able to keep your weight under 200 pounds.
- Chuck Johnston
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 23 May 2011, 09:18
by kikibalt
Art Aragon with Atty. Paul Caruso
Re: Classic American West Coast Boxing
Posted: 23 May 2011, 09:22
by kikibalt
Art Aragon with Lawyers Paul Caruso and Jules Cuvey
Re:
Posted: 23 May 2011, 09:56
by Rick Farris
Collins2000 wrote:kikibalt wrote:
Ernie "Red' Lopez
Just thinking way back when.
I always enjoyed my time with my grandfather, no matter what we did.
When he helped me become a boxer, we were together even more.
He didn't just give me a ride to the gym, he got involved. He helped out at Flores Gym, where something was always in need of repair.
My grandad was handy, had tools, and access to misc. crap like bungy cord, tape, wood, etc. If he was going to repair a speed bag, he'd take the bladder home from the gym.
The next day we'd take it over to Warner Bros. where one of his buddies in Transportation would have a mechanic patch the rubber bladder.
He'd grab a length of bungy cord, and take it to repair the double-end bag. Flores was busy, and he didn't always have time to devote to his backyard gym.
My Grandad was retired, and would see things were kept in order.
He'd take me to the Flores gym three nights a week, and I'd get a ride with anther fighter on another night. I'd also train at Main Street Gym on Saturday's & Sundays.
On Sunday, I'd ride the bus, but on Saturday my grandfather would usually give me a lift, and sometimes get his hair cut downstairs at the Barber College below the gym.
After my workouts were finished, my Grandpa and I would usually stop at for lunch at Philippes, near Olvera Street.
On a couple of occasions we'd see Ernie "Indian Red" Lope also having a sandwich. My Granpa and Red kind of hit it off. Like Ernie, my Grandfather had been born on an Indian Reservation. My Grandad had a tough life as a young man, like Ernie, and had come out on top. I believe my Grandfather could speak with anybody, on any level, he was a self educated man, a hard man.
One day, as we left the cafe, my Grandpa and Ernie visited briefly. Ernie would soon fight Hedgeman Lewis for the first time. We liked Hedgeman, but we loved Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez.
Does anybody remember the third Lopez brother who fought in the mid-60's, Leonard Lopez?
I remember him well. I remember him breaking his ankle during a televised fight from the Olympic.
Re: Re:
Posted: 23 May 2011, 10:09
by kikibalt
Rick Farris wrote:Collins2000 wrote:kikibalt wrote:
Ernie "Red' Lopez
Just thinking way back when.
I always enjoyed my time with my grandfather, no matter what we did.
When he helped me become a boxer, we were together even more.
He didn't just give me a ride to the gym, he got involved. He helped out at Flores Gym, where something was always in need of repair.
My grandad was handy, had tools, and access to misc. crap like bungy cord, tape, wood, etc. If he was going to repair a speed bag, he'd take the bladder home from the gym.
The next day we'd take it over to Warner Bros. where one of his buddies in Transportation would have a mechanic patch the rubber bladder.
He'd grab a length of bungy cord, and take it to repair the double-end bag. Flores was busy, and he didn't always have time to devote to his backyard gym.
My Grandad was retired, and would see things were kept in order.
He'd take me to the Flores gym three nights a week, and I'd get a ride with anther fighter on another night. I'd also train at Main Street Gym on Saturday's & Sundays.
On Sunday, I'd ride the bus, but on Saturday my grandfather would usually give me a lift, and sometimes get his hair cut downstairs at the Barber College below the gym.
That's what memories are for Rick, to think back in time, to remember all your good times with family/friends. Material stuff can be taken away from you, but memories?, no, those are yours for ever....
Re: Re:
Posted: 23 May 2011, 10:37
by Rick Farris
kikibalt wrote:Rick Farris wrote:Collins2000 wrote:
Just thinking way back when.
I always enjoyed my time with my grandfather, no matter what we did.
When he helped me become a boxer, we were together even more.
He didn't just give me a ride to the gym, he got involved. He helped out at Flores Gym, where something was always in need of repair.
My grandad was handy, had tools, and access to misc. crap like bungy cord, tape, wood, etc. If he was going to repair a speed bag, he'd take the bladder home from the gym.
The next day we'd take it over to Warner Bros. where one of his buddies in Transportation would have a mechanic patch the rubber bladder.
He'd grab a length of bungy cord, and take it to repair the double-end bag. Flores was busy, and he didn't always have time to devote to his backyard gym.
My Grandad was retired, and would see things were kept in order.
He'd take me to the Flores gym three nights a week, and I'd get a ride with anther fighter on another night. I'd also train at Main Street Gym on Saturday's & Sundays.
On Sunday, I'd ride the bus, but on Saturday my grandfather would usually give me a lift, and sometimes get his hair cut downstairs at the Barber College below the gym.
That's what memories are for Rick, to think back in time, to remember all your good times with family/friends. Material stuff can be taken away from you, but memories?, no, those are yours for ever....
