Little known facts about pro fighters

Oh, that's a good one, and I did not know that. It's connecting the dots here too. Because Risko was supposed to be all mobbed up, so what better person to emerge than Carbo.

 

Hey that’s something, Wish I could tell you where I heard it… I believe it was a Carmen Basilio documentary.

 

I hope that’s true.
I saw an interview where Ike didn’t look great and he was shooting down rumors he was broke, a drug addicts etc;

 

Risko is well-established to have been mob connected, whether it was Carbo or someone else involved.

 

Somebodies gotta hold the Trinidad’s & Hamed’s of this world to account.

 

I saw that too. I remember when he left the sport for five years after the Vargas fight. He had doubled his money building a hospital and returned to the sport very wealthy in Ghana. I know he has had multiple construction projects.

 

Child star & fight fan of the 20s then later a writer Dean Riesner was a obviously a Harry Greb fan.His most famous work was Dirty Harry.

Contender Jose Stable was in with some voodoo cult.Had a shootout with the Powlice in the 80s and got life in prison


Barney Eastwood bet on Steve Cruz vs his man McGuigan.Source Jim McGuigan

 

John “The Beast” was apparently something of a death squad goon…
“John said to me that he was assigned to the dictators special hit squad. He told me that he sick of killing people by shooting them. So he joined the Sports devision of the Uganda army andhe took up Boxing just to get out of killing people. He won da African boxing championship. Made the Olympic team and win da only medal for Uganda in 1980. He defected after the Olympics to turn Pro in Britain. Idi Amin put a hit out upon him for
defecting so he could not go back to Uganda or endanger his family.”

 

@scartissue checkout my above post on John Mugabi - that new trivia for ya? I’ve got some other ones… In the second fight Jake’s corner whistled every time he invested too much time on Robinsons head, a reminder to go to the body…. Bill Miller was an adviser to a 21 year old Robinson when he arrived in Detroit… Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson once both observed Jimmy Doyle in the ring and were impressed and even tutored/mentored him together.

 

Larry Holmes has the most defenses of the HW title who never faced a British opponent.

 

True! I spoke to him there a few times in the last years before I emigrated.

 

70's Light Heavyweight contender Jerry Celestine did a prison stint early on in his career. When he was released, he was immediately hired by the Sheriff's Department in the same city where he worked until he died reportedly. Don't ask me how this happened, but its in his obituary.

 

Yuri Arbachakov had a ring name of Yuri Ebihara as a tribute to Japanese former flyweight champ Hiroyuki Ebihara at the time,but changed it because ebi sounds like fucc in Russian.

 

Clemente Sanchez, former WBC featherweight champion, was murdered on Xmas Day.