Vincent Gigante

Yeah, but he'd have to ditch the bathrobe and slippers!

 

He was known as "Chin," either because he could take a punch, or because he had a prominent chin. Not sure which. Either way, his family was regarded as the best organized NYC mafia family.

 

He was not much of a puncher but was in pretty tough and I think stopped on a cut by Jimmy Slade who also beat Tommy Jackson 2x and Clarence Henry, Archie McBride and Yvone Durellel...Chin did not have to prove he was a tough guy because he was on the street...funny but they say he ordered the murder of another wise-guy and pro fighter Johnny Digilio

 

I know his cousin pretty well. I'll ask him.

The Genovese family was so secretive and well-run that for a time they didn't even know who the boss was- Gigante, Funzi Tieri or Fat Tony Salerno. After Tieri and Salerno died it became a bit more clear.

 

Chin was a great mafia leader. Under his guidance, the Genoveses became the biggest and most influential of the five NYC families. Their operations were handled intelligently and covertly under Chin.

But Chin did make one major career mistake: he failed to recruit Roy DeMeo, who was one of La Cosa Nostra's best earners in addition to being the top hitman in NYC during the '70s and '80s. DeMeo signed on with the Gambinos instead.

 

He was called chin due to the the way his mother pronounced his name apparently.

 

DeMeo did not fit in with with the Genevese profile, He was strictly a killer and ran a rugged crew out of the Gemini lounge in Brooklyn and always belonged to the Gambino's. Chin was a street guy but picked up smarts from the old-timers in the crew who had some smart guys like Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello who controlled most of the politicians of the day.

The Genovese family had a good head start with a lot of the old-timers and inherited rackets like the piers but other family's were also strong, the Gambino's were large but the crew with the most tough guys was the Colombo's but wars brought them down and now the neighborhoods that created great fighters and no longer do also do not create tough guys any longer....the real tough guys are doing life in jail and most of the rest are limited to selling drugs with 75% now flipping and becoming informers like the other common criminals....years ago it was a different breed of man, much like boxing

 

This is the hard time that Carmine Persico and Anthony Senter are doing. They've got a band at Lompoc called "Mafia 4."

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http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=47231&cat=boxer

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DiGilio[/ame]

 

It looks good for the pictures but does not tell the whole story, prison is not fun and they are all doing life...This was for an article...none of these guys play instruments other than a Smith and Wesson

 

Vinchinzo

 

Seriously? So the band was fake? That's interesting. Here's a new picture of Senter, that's surfaced recently. It's his arrest in the late '80s. Check out his eyes...mean looking dude.

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Bummy ,the Gemini Lounge in B'klyn was on Flatlands Ave,about 3 blocks east of Flatbush Ave...It is now a small church, [how ironic?]. Years ago i would pass that Lounge where people were killed in the basement and dismembered...Little did we know those days...As a little kid I was taken to Charley Beechers poolroom where Bummy Davis trained in the back gym and the members of the infamous "Murder Incorporated " killers hung out...
At the time my older cousin took me to see Al Davis train, Lepke Buchalter was on the lam..I was told by my older cousin to see, but don't talk...
I practiced Omerta that long ago day...

 

True, name was Vincenzo, she would cal him it with 'Chin" sound to name.

He had decent club fighter career, but when they had him fight Jimmy Slade as a stopping stone to bigger bouts he lost tough match on stoppage due to cut, as someone pointed out.