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

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

 

Lew Eskin said about Hollywood stars who usta be fighters,

"Anbody who ever walked past a gym usta be a fighter"

 

Dino was indeed a professional for a short time.

 

I diden't know Stubenville Ohio had its boxing lore researched.

 

Proof?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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I believe Jack Palance had a background in boxing -- a fact his nose and eyebrows seem to back up.

 

Fought Joe Baski and supposedly had 14 other fights. Wasn't aware he was such a big dude...

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=041420&cat=boxer

 

Ok,I'm wrong..on further reading, it seems that Martin was an amateur fighter with an 1-11 record..