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DEMPSEY SPEAKS!
**** “And I always felt wonderful fighting: I don’t think it was the thrill of competition. Hell, I had all the ‘competition’ I ever needed in the job of existing, eating, from day to day. And…Read More
JESUS “CHUCHO” CASTILLO 1944-2013
**** “Winning the title is not important. The only thing I want to do is beat that loudmouth, that clown. It is what I live for, what I dream of. Olivares does not deserve to be champion. I am…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “You know, it’s a funny thing. Those crowds, those autographs, having everybody say, ‘Hey, Robinson,’ being somebody, it gets you. Some people can’t understand that.…Read More
JOHNNY LIRA: 1951-2012
**** “Like when I broke my jaw against Ernesto España. I’d broken it before, so I knew when I couldn’t talk right and it was going click-click-click, it was fucked up again. But you…Read More
HECTOR CAMACHO: 1962-2012
**** “I want to build my own way. Let me have fun, leave me alone. Let me live my life the way I want to. Someday I won’t be able to enjoy this. Nobody understands, boxing is the only place…Read More
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HERBIE KRONOWITZ: 1921-2012*
**** “I would have fought anybody. Anybody. When Johnny Greco came down here, from Canada, that was…Read More
EMANUEL STEWARD: 1944-2012
**** “In Detroit, I come across a lot of people who see me at the supermarket and say, ‘Aren’t…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “Half of these present-day fighters haven’t got their hearts in the game. All they…Read More
JIMMY BIVINS 1919-2012
**** “The fight game is a monstrous thing…They just froze me out….They told me I’d…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** Part of my bottom line is that to myself I’m a man—fairly, unfairly, uninterestingly, stupidly—who…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “There was no sense quitting when I was winning, and to judge from my past performances I…Read More
JOHNNY TAPIA 1967-2012
**** “Eight months in the hole, I spent. I was in segregation, because they thought I was high…Read More
EDDIE PERKINS 1937-2012
**** “I would love to fight an exhibition now to show people how the fight game is supposed to…Read More
DEMPSEY SPEAKS!
**** “I felt I had to give everything I had, whenever I was in the ring. I loved the applause,…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “Don’t believe any of this bullshit. And don’t ever take boxing seriously. …Read More
BERT SUGAR: 1937-2012
**** “The scale fell from my eyes and I suddenly became aware of writers like H.L. Mencken who…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
**** “I went over and fought in Philadelphia one time. I’d gotten in a brawl, drunk about…Read More
DEMPSEY SPEAKS!
**** “The rough, dirty, tough fighters, and the lying, cheating, monopoly hunting fight promoters,…Read More
ANGELO DUNDEE 1921-2012
**** “It was at the Neutral, as its regulars called it and where they would gather between 3:00…Read More
GUERINO ‘GOODY’ PETRONELLI 1923-2012
**** “When a kid walks into this gym off the street and tells me he wants to be a fighter, I’ll…Read More
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