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Re: Any Boxing Fans on here?
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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08/09/11 12:07 PM
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Been around fighters in my day; hanging at Gleason's Gym in Manhattan across from MSG near Eighth Ave, writing stories and covered a few big fights at the time though it was not my fulltime beat. Have been with Ali, Frazier, Floyd Patterson, Tyson, Mathew Saad Muhammad, Dwight Braxton, Gerry Cooney naming a few.
Do your best, we only go around once
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Re: Any Boxing Fans on here?
[Re: NickyScarfo]
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08/09/11 03:43 PM
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As beat writer for a daily pretty much the schedule is arranged depending what your teams - Yankees, Mets, Rangers, Islanders, Deils, Knicks, Giants, Jets - are up too. Fans expect stories everyday on them so usually I'd be at their facility most day hanging with players, owners coaches ect. Just make sure not to get scooped on a big story. Typically, editors sent me out for something else during the day ie boxing press conference ; a luncheon at 21 Club, Four Seasons, Gallaghers Steak House, World Trade Center, Plaza Hotel... announcing a big signing or scheduled event. Actually I didn't cover Patterson as a fighter but met him several times, including lunching at MSG Hall of Fame Club while he was NYS Boxing Commissioner. He displayed kindness, warmth above and beyond around me and others. Always a soft spoken gentleman.
Do your best, we only go around once
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Re: Any Boxing Fans on here?
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09/07/11 07:36 PM
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Arturo Gatti Murdered NORTH BERGEN, N.J. -- Former junior welterweight champion Arturo Gatti was murdered two years ago in Brazil, a panel of forensic evidence experts said Wednesday as it presented the results of a 10-month investigation initiated to challenge the official version that Gatti committed suicide. "This case must be reopened if authorities in Brazil have an iota of moral, ethical and legal concern for their reputation," said noted forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, who termed the version produced by the initial criminal investigation "pure, unadulterated fiction." Brazilian authorities initially considered Gatti's wife a prime suspect and arrested her, but released her soon after and concluded Gatti had hung himself with a handbag strap. Eduardo Trindade, a lawyer assisting Gatti's family, said Wednesday he would have the panel's report translated and presented to prosecutors in Brazil within the next month or two and would push for an indictment of Amanda Rodrigues Gatti. While no one at Wednesday's news conference explicitly accused her of being involved in murder, several speakers stopped barely short of that. "If she was there alone, who committed the homicide?" said Paul Ciolino, a Chicago-based investigator hired by Pat Lynch, Gatti's former manager. "He was murdered because he had some dough. It's the oldest motive in the world." Amanda Gatti is involved in a legal battle with Gatti's family over her late husband's fortune, estimated at $6 million by Ciolino. A civil trial is under way in Canada...
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Re: Any Boxing Fans on here?
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09/19/11 02:37 AM
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The Don
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Those hits were legit -- HBO could at least find someone less than 120 years old to interview him, too -- maybe he'd speak faster than 2 words per minute... wtf??
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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