Yeah, only the lucky get old, Burt. I hope to be so lucky. After all, wisdom is not something they issue at birth. I have a question for you or...
Thoroughly enjoyed that, Greg. You are MUCH improved. Busy as hell, changing up angles, not afraid to let the other guy blow for a while and you...
Yeah, that sure stinks. Frank was capable of indefensible behavior, I think sometimes even in his eyes. At the same time, he was capable of...
Ha, yeah J. The same is true in less obvious battles too, right, besides boxing and war.
I think Patterson's a very interesting guy, too. I thought I knew a lot about Frank Sinatra and his involvement with fighters, Robinson, Louis;...
He was the quintessential positive thinker, J. He believed it, not on purpose, but because it never would have occurred to him to be any other...
He had a sense of humor, too. One time he was trying to get one of his friends reinstated into his gimme job with the city. Mayor Davy Lawrence...
When I saw the thread title, I thought it was about Jake's psychological make-up. Now that would be a discussion!
Billy Conn always seemed like an interesting guy to me. His reputation around Pittsburgh when I was growing up was that he didn't behave as a...
That it's not the same as hitting a big bag. That all the technique you thought you'd learned goes right out the window in the heat of battle, and...
I'd like to throw Ray's personality in for consideration, J. A pride/ego/intelligence that made losing unthinkable, something other people did.
I agree, this is what Cus did for Mike. In that recent doc Mike talks about how Cus broke him down and then built him back up brick by brick. He...
I am very sorry to hear this. When Al has posted things on here about his dad, the love and true regard he has for him was always very evident....
Agree, really enjoyed reading that, Prime. Alotta food for thought. Always nice to hear a sane voice, but lately it's a damn near life saver.
Great post. I got the feeling with Mike towards the end of his career that because the bar had been set so high from the get-go, by Cus, by Cus...
