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11-08-2012, 02:58 AM #1Senior Member
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R.I.P. Carmen Basilio
Younger folks may not be aware of him but he was one of my childhood heroes.
Carmen Basilio, Boxer Who Beat Sugar Ray Robinson for Title, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com
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11-08-2012, 03:40 AM #2Senior Member
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The article stated that he boxed in the Corps during the second WW. I wonder if he ever fought John Basilone, who also boxed during the second WW. Both were close to the same size.
Basilone & Basilio are now , knocking a few cold ones down together.
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11-13-2012, 02:11 AM #3Senior Member
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I use to love the Friday Night Fights on TV. My father and I would watch them. I remember guys like Eddie Machen and so many others. Use to love to watch Archie Moore. Gone are the days!
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11-13-2012, 02:17 AM #4Senior Member
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+1. IIRC there were also Wednesday night fights. I think the Friday fights were sponsored by Gillette. Don Dunphy announced many of them and he was the best AFAIC. Names like Ralph "Tiger"Jones, Rory Calhoun, Gaspar Ortega, Henry Hank are all but forgotten. For that matter, how many know who Sugar Ray Robinson was ? Anyway, glad I lived back in those days and saw some of the tail end of the golden age of boxing.
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11-13-2012, 02:49 AM #5Senior Member
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Yeah, in Puerto Rico they were also sponsored by Gillete, this is back in the 60's and early 70's. All the great fights.
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Friday night fights at madison Sq. gardens.remember it well watching on our little round B&W t.v. with the rabbit ears and my old man going nuts as he was a part time bookie
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From the time I 11 until I was 13 I lived near a Boy's Club. We had a heavy bag, speed bag, jump rope and a medicine ball. I worked out every day after school. My father taught me the basics of boxing and I had a Sunday School teacher who at one time had been a sparring partner for Jack Dempsey. Boxing was a great part of my formative years. It came in handy on several occasions when I worked as a Railroad Detective. The old boxers seemed to have class. They had heart. The world shall not see the likes of them again.
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