Was great fighter/famous for something else

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  1. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I was a alltime great fighter, but I became famous after I retired from the ring..Who am I ?
     
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  2. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Rocky Graziano?
     
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  3. GPater11093

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    Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom

    As an actor.
     
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  4. burt bienstock

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    nay
     
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  5. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Did I invent something?
     
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  6. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jack Sharkey. Wasn't he a famous fly fisherman?
     
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  7. burt bienstock

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    No ,none of the above...I had a very famous nickname given to me...
     
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  8. El Bujia

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    Barney Ross the war hero?
     
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  9. brucebufershair

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    Max Baer the Homocidal Hebrew as an actor
     
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  10. snakeface

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    george foreman and his grill?
     
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  11. SuzieQ49

    SuzieQ49 The Manager Full Member

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    I wish I could say the great Jack Palance. Watched the classic film "shane" the other day, man was he a good actor!
     
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  12. burt bienstock

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    None of the above...
    Hint, was connected to many of the greatest fighters in fistiana, and with one alltime immortal paricularly...
     
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  13. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Again, this could be many including Jake LaMotta or Abe Attell or Jack Blackburn or Rubin Carter.
     
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  14. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    hh it's one of the four,and I meant Jack Blackburn...Blackburn was a great 135-40 pound fighter who fought amongst others, Joe Gans,Sam Langford
    Ohil Jackj OBrien, Harry Greb, Kid Norfolk etc..But he became famous of course as the immortal Joe Louis's trainer...They loved each other and called each other "Chappie',Til the day Chappie Bkackburn died from a heart attack...Blackburn also trained Joe Walcott,,Sammy Mandell, Bud Taylor, and others...b.b.
     
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  15. young griffo

    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Could've been Mickey Walker as well.

    Didn't he become famous as an artist after he retired??
     
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