Tony Baltazar

Congrats:good!

 

Thanks Titan.

 

Great thread.

Thanks for posting all your stories. Really enjoyed reading them.

Congrats to tony and his daughter too.

 

Thanks Nick..

 

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Tony Baltazar v Roger Mayweather

 

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Chicano style breakfast...bacon & eggs, tortillas & home cook potatoes

That salsa was the bomb!!

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Olympic Auditorium
Dec.7, 1978

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Franco Thomas, Jimmy Lennon Sr. & Frankie Baltazar

 

New York City, New York- 1982


By Frank “kiki” Baltazar

Frankie, Tony and I were in New York City for a meeting with Don King; Jimmy Montoya was also there among others. We had been there for about four days and Jimmy and I were dying for some Mexican food, we went out to find some. We were walking on 8th Avenue when we see a place with a big sign "Mexican Food-Burritos", we walked in and some Puerto Ricans are running the joint, we turned right around and walked out, we walked another block and we see an Italian place, we decided to go in and have some spaghetti and meatballs, we sat down and ordered, as we're sitting waiting for our food we could hear voices coming for the back of the place, I got up and walked to the back to check it out, there were about 4-5 guys shooting pool.

"Just some guys shooting pool" I said to Jimmy.

While we were eating Jimmy asked me if I had any money on me.
"I got some, why?"
"Lend me forty bucks" he said.

When we finish eating we walked back to where the guys were shooting pool. Jimmy asked if he could play.

"Sure, but we play for money"
"That okay" said Jimmy.

After 2-3 games Jimmy is down to his last ten bucks, he puts the ten bucks on one last game, he won the game.

"I want a rematch" the guy tells Jimmy.
"Sure, Jimmy said.
Jimmy beats him again, two more games and the dude is broke.

Another guy played Jimmy, Jimmy breaks him too after a few games

Now the first guy Jimmy played is on the phone, twenty minutes or so later a guy walks in with a stick in a real fancy case.
He got it on with Jimmy, while Jimmy is playing this guy the first one is getting drunk.

Jimmy breaks this one too after a few games, by this time the first guy is stinking drunk, he could barely stand up, but he walked up to Jimmy and says to Jimmy.
"You're good, but you drink too f*#king much"

Jimmy won eight hundred bucks; he played and won with my forty bucks, so I got four hundred bucks.

We were in New York City for a Don King press conference. It was to be held in a very fancy hotel. Men’s attire was suit and tie.
As Jimmy and I were walking back to our hotel he said to me that he didn’t bring a suit.

“Well. Jimmy, you just won four hundred’s bucks, buy one” I said to Jimmy.

“Hey! I can do that; let’s find a Men’s store”

We found one on 42th St. Jimmy looked at some suits and settle on a bluish one, if I remember right. The pants legs were alter in no time and we walked out of the store, Jimmy with a new suit.

After getting all dressed up the following day in suits, ties and since it was a cold February afternoon; also in overcoats; we left to walk to the press conference.

After a short walk in the snow we arrived at a very fancy hotel. We walked into a big ballroom where the press conference was to be held. We soon met Don King and he introduced us to actress/singer Eartha Kitt, actor/dancer Gregory Hines, singer James Brown and Al Sharpton.

As we were slipping out of our overcoats we started looking for our table, finding our table we sat down. We had been sitting for about twenty minutes when I happened to look at Jimmy’s suit sleeve; I leaned over and whispered in Jimmy’s ear: “Jimmy, look at your sleeve”. Jimmy looks at his left sleeve and right away he puts his arm under the table and starts pulling on the price tag he still had on the new suit sleeve.

 

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Teamsters Boys Club boxers

Found this dated photo (circa 1965). Far left, Tony Baltazar, third from left, Tony "Boo" Campa, fifth from left, Frankie Baltazar, the Teamsters honchos, far right in the white T's, left Arturo Cordova and Richard Ruby.

 

Seasons greeting to all my ESB friends....Have a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. And may Tis Season bring you nothing but joy and happiness....Frank "kiki" Baltazar and family

 

And to you sir,the best of season's...:good

 

Tony Baltazar v Robin Blake

At the time of Tony’s fight with Robin Blake Bob Arum was still base out of New York City. His man in Las Vegas was Mel Greb. My dealings for the fight were with Greb who was a hard guy to deal with.

We made the fight over the phone, but I had to go to Vegas to sign the contract. Mel wanted me to fly out of Ontario Airport, on their dime, of course, sign the contract and fly right back home. I told him no, that I would drive on Saturday, two weeks before the fight. I told him to get me a room at the Showboat and that I wanted $500 to play the slots, he barked, but I got what I wanted.

Saturday morning two weeks before the fight I drove to Vegas on Connie’s new 1984 Z28 Camaro, made the trip in about four hours. When I got to Vegas there was a room waiting for me at the Showboat, after checking in I called Mel, told him I was at the 'Boat, he told me that he would meet me at the coffee shop within an hour.

We met and Mel hands me the contract to sign, well, I am no lawyer, but I could see that everything we had agreed on was not on the contract. The money for the fight was okay, but the 4 rooms for five days, five round-trip tickets from Ontario Airport, meals for five people for five days, 5k for training expenses, Frankie’s fight on the card were not on the contract, when I told Mel that I wanted all that on the contract, he told me to sign the contract and that everything would be taken care off, I refuse to sign the contract until he added all that we had agreed upon, when he did and he handed me a check for 5k and the $500 cash for me to play with I signed the contract.

Saturday before the fight I drove Tony, Frankie, Bobby and Herman Montes, who we had hired as a sparring partner for Tony to Ontario Airport. I paid for the tickets. After the fights when we got paid I was still out the five hundred for the plane tickets, I hit Bob Arum, he told me to see Mel Greb about it. I told Mel that I still had $500 coming for the plane tickets. He bought out a roll of hundred dollar bills, gave me four, I told him it was five, not four that I had coming, “take the four” Mel said to me, I said to Mel “Mel, either you give me five or I’ll take all your money from you” Mel was a little guy..LOL! He gave me the five.

There’s another part of the contract that had to do with Frankie’s fight.

 

love reading these first hand stories K:good

 

Thanks, John.

 

Interesting story, Frank.