Did anybody ever find any concrete record of Dean Martin's boxing?

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  1. MrOliverKlozoff

    MrOliverKlozoff The guy in shades Full Member

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    I can only find some other Dean Martins on boxrec and nothing under his birth name. He said he boxed as "Kid Crochet". I've seen several different records quoted. One was 25-11 on his imdb bio. I think he joked about losing most of his fights before too. Does anybody know of any actual fights showing up in newspapers or anything?
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    I heard varying things but I think he was just an amateur. Consult the Nick Tosches' book. Never got around to reading that one.
     
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    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lew Eskin said about Hollywood stars who usta be fighters,

    "Anbody who ever walked past a gym usta be a fighter"
     
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    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Dino was indeed a professional for a short time.
     
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    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I diden't know Stubenville Ohio had its boxing lore researched.
     
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    Proof?
     
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    Tony Danza went 9-4 (9), Mickey Rourke went 6-0-2 (4), Mark Gastineau went 15-2 (15) 1NC, Ed Too Tall Jones went 6-0 (5), and Alonzo Highsmith went 27-1-2 (23). I can't find **** on Dean Martin or Charles Bronson though.
     
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    Found this... His teens took place during the Great Depression of the Thirties, and he quit high school in the tenth grade, remarking later that “It was because I thought I was smarter than the teacher!” He held down a number of part and full-time jobs as a teen – service station attendant, shoe-shine boy, clerk in a store, steel-mill worker, and amateur welterweight boxer and prizefighter. Fighting as “Kid Crochet,” the teenager earned from $10 to $25 a match. During this period he suffered a cracked lip and a broken nose, both of which he dealt with later with corrective surgery. Of his twelve bouts, he would later say "I won all but eleven.
     
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Little known fact, Richard Simmons fought under the nomme de guerre "Joltin' Kid Dick" as a bantamweight.

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    Roy Clark claims he went 15-1
     
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    delete
     
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    I believe Jack Palance had a background in boxing -- a fact his nose and eyebrows seem to back up.
     
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    Ok,I'm wrong..on further reading, it seems that Martin was an amateur fighter with an 1-11 record..
     
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