Irving (Izzy) Glassier

Name: Izzy Glassier
Alias: Glazer/Glasser
Birth Name: Irving Gabriel Glasser
Hometown: Oakland, California, USA
Birthplace: Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Died: 1995-06-21 (Age:92)
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

By late 1921, Irving Glassier was the boxing instructor at UCLA (Los Angeles), succeeding Benny Einsing. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 21.

According to the California Death Records database in the RootsWeb website, there was an Irving Glasser who was born on December 25, 1902 in a foreign country and died on June 21, 1995 as a resident of Los Angeles County, California.

In the June 24, 1995 edition of the Los Angeles Times (found on the Internet), there was an obituary of one Irving Glasser with a headline, COLORFUL BAIL BONDSMAN DIES. According to the obituary, Glasser died Wednesday at his home in West Los Angeles. He had fought as a boxer under the name of Kid "Glasser." He and his brother, Louis, had a bail bonds business in downtown Los Angeles, writing "about ten million dollars of bonds a year" and keeping ten percent. While in business, Glasser was often linked with the noted Los Angeles-based mobster and former boxer, Mickey Cohen.