today I'm unknown of a feared boxing past

I was a feared and talented "member" of an informal boxing fraternity who today is sadly overlooked, though I beat the best fighters of my time...
I had to retire because of injury...Who am I ?

 

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Finn, you are correct as always pal. EB...Keep in touch...

 

Yes N. Eddie Booker was a great member of "murderer's row " who kod
Archie Moore, beat Holman Williams, Lloyd Marshall, Harry Mathews,
Shorty and Big Boy Hogue, and was as good as any member of this "feared" club. But Eddie Booker suffered an eye injury ending his great career...

 

S, I knowest not who did the "deed", but i had heard that an opponent of Eddie Bookers, tampered with his [opponent] gloves, doing permanent damage to the unheralded Eddie Booker's eyes which got worse in time, leading to his retirement... Booker might have whipped a Ray Robinson, so talented was he...:good

 

Ole Fritzie felt offended cause ha had to play second fiddle to Harry Greb in
Pittsburgh boxing history, in the art of rough tactics...I saw Fritzie one time
only in January 1945 when he was brought in for cannon fodder against a sensational new puncher from Philly named Billy Arnold,who kod almost everyone he met...My dad and i felt sorry for Zivic before the bout, but the well past peak Fritzie outboxed easily the hard punching "new Joe Louis"
for a decision...
P.S. What a card you posted from MSG when Zivic decisioned the great Eddie Booker ...Those were the days, the best met the best, or fell by the wayside...Cheers...