George "Sugar" Costner beat Gavilan and Ike Williams with one eye

Haha, just seen this anyway. Thank you Matt.

 

Would love to see him fight. No film available of him as far as I know, but something might turn up.

As an aside, is there a fighter that has been screwed more times that Gavilan?

 

The 8-ball never lies. It seems the judges were one-eyed as well as George for that one with Gav :good

 

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Just been reading about his first encounter with Robinson in Sweet Thunder. It said he wasn't his usual self at all when he went into the ring(this was for the first fight mind) and some said he even bottled it as it was a much bigger crowd to what he was used to.

He was put down by a lighting fast blow which many of the crowd didn't see and took the whole count on one knee.

Robinson invited Costner to his bar later that night where they shared a drink and some photographs.

 

He looks to have a very long neck but it is thick as hell, weird that.

Seems a good fighter, I love these threads where you learn something new of a fighter you never even thought about before. Thank you McGrain.

Also is Costner the guy Ray punished for 'stealing' his nickname?

 

It was said he wasn't happy about it when he found out he was using sugar, especially when the crowd started chanting 'sugar sugar sugar' at one of his previous fights with Rangel.

 

thanks Meast, thought tis was the guy.

 

Really is interesting. Keep 'em coming.

 

How many times was he robbed in your estimation?

 

From the fights I've seen, I definitely think his second fight with Bratton was a robbery, as was his fight with Johnny Saxton. Beyond that, I thought he should have won the Danny Womber fight too, though I admit it would be a stretch to call it a robbery.

If we believe reports the following are definite robberies: his fight with Lester Felton, the first Billy Graham fight, Robert Villemain, George Costner and Peter Waterman fights.

There's quite a few other fights where the decision was questionable too, like the first Ike Williams fight, and there are plenty of fights where Gavilan lost close decisions fighting in other guys' backyards. I don't have reports on them, but who knows what happened there.

 

anyone who beat ike williams has more than earned my respect. got some research to do...