Cocoa Kid -A Mystery No More.

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  1. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Superb article, you bring both fighters to life here
     
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  2. stevebhoy87

    stevebhoy87 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Great stuff, my favourite article so far of the series.
     
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  3. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The fact that you would research a fighter whose career is over 60 years finished is what it's all about. He deserves it.
     
    Stonehands89, Apr 6, 2011
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  4. thesham01

    thesham01 Undisputed Champion Full Member

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    Your articles are always gold.

    I thought that your 'Gods of War' series would be impossible to top, but this looks like it will do that with ease. The level of research and storytelling are something to behold.

    Your the only writer I'll eat my dinner too, rather than watching TV. If that makes sense. Its a huge compliment anyway.
     
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  5. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    -This combines honesty with art and it's about the best compliment a writer could ask for. If I ever get a taker for my manuscript, it should go on the book jacket.

    Thank you.
     
    Stonehands89, Apr 6, 2011
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  6. doug.ie

    doug.ie 'Classic Boxing Society' Full Member

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  7. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ...Part 6 is delayed until next week. I finally got the go-ahead from the Federal Govt' to get at Cocoa Kid's military records. I already had a good enough idea about how he served in WWII to finish this part some time ago but this document coming in the mail may be lengthy (at $60 I expect that it will be) and it may have details....
     
    Stonehands89, Apr 12, 2011
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  8. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Thanks for splashing that $60 Stony We outta pass the hat!
     
    SLAKKA, Apr 12, 2011
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  9. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  10. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Let me know if u need The Ring Magazines coverage of Cocoas fight vs Georgie Abrams.
    Or The Washington Post. Its clear the little ******* fought the hell outta Georgie and earned at least a draw.
     
    SLAKKA, Apr 13, 2011
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  11. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Thank you. I have the Post coverage. Gotta say, they had some great photos of Cocoa Kid in action and at leisure and their coverage was detailed. Great boxing writers were down there during those years. The Baltimore Sun and the New Orleans Times-Picayne were also stand-outs.
     
    Stonehands89, Apr 13, 2011
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  12. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Louis Kid Cocoa vs Washington's own Georgie Abrams by Nate Phillips THE RING. Nov 1940
    At Washington, another Madison Square Garden attraction was presented in the main go of ten rounds between the number one welterweight contender, Louis Kid Cocoa. THE RING'S No. 5 middleweight and Washington's own Georgie Abrams. Cocoa scaled 1481/2 and Abrams, 158.

    For the first three rounds, Abrams took the fight to Cocoa and had a slight edge, but at the start of the fourth, Cocoa found the range with that left of his and landed many telling blows in infighting.

    the fifth, sixth and seventh were very big rounds for Cocoa who had Abrams' left eye cut. Abrams won the eighth by a shade, but in the ninth, Cocoa staggered Abrams and won the round. In the tenth and final, both went at it with Cocoa having a little the better of it, to take the round. The judges declared Abrams the winner at the end of a very good fight.

    reads like the little sob won this fight!
     
    SLAKKA, Apr 13, 2011
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  13. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yep --That SOB won a lotta fights he lost!
     
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  14. Stonehands89

    Stonehands89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ... The series is back on track. I sent in the next part earlier and I'm told that it will be up tomorrow.



    ....You won't want to miss this one. It's a long one but it dusts off and digs up MUCH. Henry Armstrong fans are gonna have conniption fits, and there's a bombshell waiting for you at the end.
     
    Stonehands89, Apr 20, 2011
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  15. McGrain

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    I'm drunk, that's good.
     
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