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Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 30 May 2024, 16:20
by Caractacus

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 31 May 2024, 13:48
by Caractacus
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.

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 31 May 2024, 13:48
by Caractacus
I thought maybe it may have been a clip from a TV programme The Battle of the Champions
-1970-
Cus D'Amato (age 62 yrs in 1970) looks to be older in Battle of the Champions.

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 13 Jun 2024, 15:34
by Caractacus
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.

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 01 Jul 2024, 13:16
by Caractacus
-1959-

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 11 Jul 2024, 18:57
by Caractacus
-August 1982-

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 12 Jul 2024, 15:08
by Caractacus
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.

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 19 Jul 2024, 17:49
by Caractacus
a now (rarely) seen interview taped July.2.1985

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 23 Jul 2024, 15:58
by Caractacus
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.


Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 24 Jul 2024, 12:13
by Caractacus
this was recorded around September 1984

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 24 Jul 2024, 12:23
by Caractacus
This was recorded around October 1984

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 14 Mar 2025, 17:13
by Caractacus
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)

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 17 Mar 2025, 16:41
by Caractacus

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 26 Mar 2025, 17:22
by Caractacus
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

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 01 Apr 2025, 17:09
by Caractacus
check out this article from 1985 by his friend Pete Hamil.

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

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 01 Apr 2025, 17:54
by Caractacus

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 05 Apr 2025, 18:04
by Caractacus
check out this article from the February.25.1957 edition of LIFE magazine.

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

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 12 Apr 2025, 17:43
by Caractacus
-1970-

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 29 Jul 2025, 17:13
by Caractacus
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 ?

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 31 Jul 2025, 14:39
by Caractacus
Beau Jack-Cus D'Amato's favorite lightweight !

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 12 Aug 2025, 15:12
by Caractacus
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.

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 21 Aug 2025, 16:54
by Caractacus
In reading Mike Tyson's books, it would appear that Cus D'Amato had an interest in the "off-beat".


Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 27 Aug 2025, 15:24
by Riddick Bowie
Seriously, who are you talking to?

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 10 Mar 2026, 11:59
by Caractacus
The Gramercy Gym (established 1939)
116 EAST 14th Street-Lower Manhattan NYC
-1959-

Re: Cus D'Amato on the power of "Fear"

Posted: 10 Mar 2026, 12:12
by Caractacus
6 years later at the Gramercy Gym and the introduction of the "Willie Bag".
-1965-