What a sad world. This kid looks like the softest frat boy posing after 7 jager bombs at some state school upstate his parents paid for him to flunk out of. How in the world did this cocksucker get away with this? Very, very strange.
This pussy really took out the boss of the most powerful crime family in America. LCN is officially dead as of this day.
In all fairness he looks like a strapping young guy. Whereas Cali, like a lot of mob bosses, looks short and dumpy. Who do you think would win in a fistfight? Carlo Gambino was the most powerful boss ever and an asthmatic kid would probably have more endurance than him or his son; the guy would've shit his pants if Carmine Galante was alone in a room with him. Anthony Casso got battered in prison once he started acting up and lost the aura that being high up in the mafia gave him.
Angelo Bruno and Paul Castellano didn't get to the top by virtue of what they did with their fists. Nor Frank Costello before that; look how quickly he noped out of the life after his life was threatened.
I suppose it's not the physical threat posed by these people that makes them a force to be reckoned with. It's the knowledge that they can snap their fingers and have someone do whatever they want to you. With no conscience or remorse.
I don't disagree with anything you stated. I just want to add a few things or expand on a few issues.
It's easy to assume and expect that the power and reputation and fear afforded by being a high-ranking organized crime guy automatically follows that guy into every situation, everywhere, acting as a shield against any type of threat or attack. But obviously, that doesn't always happen. Sick nut cases lack the sanity to be wary of or impressed by the very things that would keep sane people in check (namely, the possibility of doing jail time, suffering retribution, or even being murdered -- not to mention having a guilty conscience and not being able to sleep at night -- as most sane people probably couldn't live with themselves after committing cold-blooded murder). What happened to Cali could easily happen to anyone. That could have been anyone's uncle or dad or brother who got shot, but since it was a high-level mob guy, the event is much more shocking -- mainly due to the fact that most sane people understand that shooting or killing a mob boss is one of the stupidest and most dangerous things a person could probably do -- and anyone who does that is likely very deranged and therefore very dangerous. Nut cases are some of the most dangerous and unpredictable people in existence. The guys who shoot up schools and movie theaters and shopping malls are very hard to prepare for and protect against.
And physical strength is, in my opinion, not much an issue nowadays. Being physically strong and having physical prowess and/or fighting skills is probably the least important it has ever been throughout human existence. The world, generally speaking, is probably the safest it has ever been, at least in the First World, and since most of us don't have to go hunt our own food and defend our own properties and fight off wild animals any more like our ancestors, we have no need to focus on being physically strong and capable (although many people still are).
And organized crime groups work by having an army of violent criminals at their disposal willing to main and kill, not by having a team of UFC fighters or pro boxers at their disposal ready to go assault people. Many guys on here act as if it's shocking when a mafia member or even a mafia boss gets assaulted or loses a one-on-one fight with someone, as if simply having the title of "mobster" or "mafia boss" equates to being a high-level, accomplished fighter or some all-around physical brute. But like you stated, many mob guys are physically unimposing and not particularly physically strong or capable. I doubt the average organized crime member spends his days at the gym pumping iron, hitting the bag, and training for one-on-one combat.
In reality, many suburban dads and local gym members and various weekend-warrior athletes could probably kick the crap out of many mob guys, but they wouldn't do that because of the threat of retaliation. I don't think John Gotti's reputation and clout were built and sustained because of any great physical prowess that Gotti possessed (although we do hear stories of how Gotti was supposedly good with his fists -- but how much of that is urban legend?) I doubt Carlo Gambino could fight his way out of a wet paper bag, but MANY people feared and respected him -- and for good reason.
