Craziest out-of-the-ring stories?

Tex Cobb was having a beer with a Philadelphia writer who had written some scathing piece about the local sports team or something, and Philly being Philly, some thugs recognized him, one of them wielding a baseball bat.

"Oh God, Tim," Tex exclaimed as they menacingly approached, "I sure hope that's the bar's softball team"...........

The thugs whacked the writer unconscious, and Cobb flew at them, yelling "If he's dead, you're ALL dead!" He got his arm broken by the bat in the process, but KO'ed the assailants, according to the story.

Can't say if it's true or not, but that's part of Tex Cobb lore.

 

Ricky Hatton getting knocked out by a local drug dealer some years back.

 

Hurricane Jackson battering someone on the street with an object. Stated that he used an object because he heard a fighters hands were lethal weapons and he didn't want to go to jail for the offence.

 

Where can I find out more about this?

 

My dad was at the Ritz Hotel with Ali. They were there to meet Tyson for the first time at a restaurant in the lobby. I don't think Tyson had been champion yet.

My dad and Ali are sitting in the lobby, waiting for their table to be ready when Tyson walks in, and says his hellos. He walks over to the restaurant manager asking why the table isn't ready yet. After a few words he grabs the manager by the collar, and starts shouting something like "How dare you make us wait! Do you have any idea who that is mother****er?!" and points to Ali.

My dad was bewildered. Ali tapped him on the shoulder and says "Let's go. This guy is crazy." And they just walked out.

 

Florida. Interstate 75 near Clearwater. A state police officer approaches a vehicle which is traveling well under the speed limit. He peers in the driver's side window and notices a woman is straddling the driver facing the driver. The police officer engages his siren and pulls the vehicle over. He tickets the driver for having *** while operating a motor vehicle. The driver is Hector Camacho.

Maybe someone can recant this interesting story at Hector's IBOF induction this summer. LOLLLL.

 

Galento knocking out Jackie Gleason.

Tyson knocking out Wesley Snipes.

My personal touches would be the drug dealer I met at a bar in NYC who swore he fought Lou Del Valle to a split decision loss. He handed me a personal business card. It said something like "shrubbery" or "botanicals" on it.

I also ran into a boxer panhandling on the street in South Beach who claimed to be Jerome Coffee. I later confirmed that it wasn't him, but I'll never know why he claimed to be him of all people.

A friend of a friend went to a fight and ended up hanging out with Kassim Ouma after in a hotel room. He had a blunt tucked behind his ear. Ouma snatched it off of him and then locked himself in the bathroom until it was burnt to nothing.
Everyone, let's do ourselves a favor and not start rehashing all of the homicides etc. that boxers have been involved in

 

was ricky drunk?

 

I always thought Paul Vaden having an affair with Terry Norris' wife while they were both active was quite the story. It's like Vaden had a death wish.

The odd thing to me was that Norris beat the **** out of him when they fought, but he was actually relatively controlled that night, where on many other nights he either got DQ'd or close to being DQ'd.

 

Mickey Wlaker beating up a college football team.

 

No idea but a steroid ridden drug dealer knocked him out in a pub after Hatton refused to give him money. I think he laid in to him while he was unconcious as well.

 

Scott Clark getting into a war of words with much bigger James Salerno at their gym in Orlando, inviting him outside, and then pounding him senseless.

Tony Gardner said he went to Honolulu as Steve Hearon's trainer/cornerman and ended up having a fight in the back of a cab with him when Hearon wouldn't pay him out of the purse. He said the driver thought Gardner was robbing him and had to explain his way out of getting shot.