Art "Golden Boy" Aragon

Aragon/Flores...Nov,1.1948...San Francisco.

Meeting pretty stiff opposition in young and aggressive Art Aragon of Los Angeles. Jesse Flores Stockton's lightweight contender had to go all out to earn a draw with the latest coast lightweight sensation, it was a fast moving battle all the way with Flores slowed down somewhat by the extra weight around his middle but showing nothing lost by his recent Kayo at the hands of Ike Williams. The house was a slim $5200. Referee "Little" Billy Burke voted for Aragon, one judge marked his card for Flores and the other called it even. Flores came in at 141, Aragon at 136.

 

Aragon/Miceli...Aug,4.1955.

In comparison to Archie Moore, who admits 38, and Sugar Ray Robinson, who recently celebrated his 35th birthday, Art Aragon and Joe Miceli, principals in tonight's headliner, are mere kiddies.
Aragon is 27, Miceli one year younger.

But neither could be called a Johnny-come-recently from the standpoint of ring activity. Art has had 84 fights, Miceli 72.
Of the five million residents in Greater Los Angeles, probably four million, nine hundred thousand have seen, read or heard about the Golden Boy. The other hundred thousand must have been goofing.

Aragon is a star of screen, TV, radio and Sunset Boulevard brawls. And of course, the ring. He has many admirers, and even more non-admirers, and both categories bounce for ducats when he's scheduled to fight.

One reason is that this guy doesn't bore you. Never mind the other reason.
It's not necessary to dwell on Senor Aragon's virtues, or vice versa. He's too well known to require embellishment.

 

Aragon/Rawlings...April,27.1949...Detroit.

On a card that included exhibition bouts featuring ring legends Willie Pep and Jack Dempsey, Art Aragon battled Luther Rawlings in the main event, dropping a close 10-round decision to a local favorite in a fight the Associated Press described as "One of the best scraps seen in a Detroit ring in years, so hard-fought it had the crowd of 10,062 tossing paper from the rafters into the ring as a way of cheering the bloody brawlers."

 

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Art Aragon v Jimmy Carter II...1951

 

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The "Golden Boy" Art Aragon

 

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Caption on back of photo reads,

Prize fighter (Golden Boy) Art Aragon and actor Mickey Rooney who also has a racing stable do an
impromptu bit of clowning at the opening of the new restaurant recently purchased by jockey Eddie Arcaro
which is located on Hollywood's Famous restaurant row on La Cienaga Blvd and Wilshire...Stamped June,25.1958

 

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Art Aragon, busted on a D.U.I.



Caption reads

Golden Boy Art Aragon who was signed yesterday to box Ramon Tiscareno, was arrested last night on a drunk charge.

Dated December,26.1955.

 

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Art sparring Dewit Lewis outdoors at Gilman Hot Springs,Calif. Aug,30.1958.
Getting ready for his fight with Carmen Basilio.

 

Yup!

 

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Art Aragon v Billy Graham. Jan,29.1953..

 

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Art Aragon v Cisco Andrade.....1956

 

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GOLDEN GUEST--Art Aragon, the "Golden Boy" of boxing, turns thinker for the quiz he'll have to tangle with when
he appears as a special guest on NBC-TV's "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" show THURSDAY, OCT. 25 (NBC-TV 8 p.m. PST, 8 p.m. CST). In the opposite corner to take on the colorful welterweight will be Groucho Marx, the heavyweight champion of television's quizmasters.

 

Art Aragon v Carmen Basilio..

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Art aragon in his dressing room between workouts with his children...Sept,1958...prior to his bout with Carmen Basilio