Entries tagged with "Damon+Runyon":
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Braverman said he was “thrown in...the nuthouse,” where he described the other inmates “making sounds like roosters and reading bibles upside down…”
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“He’s a great fighter,” said LaStarza in his dressing room after the fight. “He’s definitely a better fighter than when I fought him before…”
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Joe landed a right to the body. Max’s legs buckled and he let out a scream. “I was paralyzed from that point on...”
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While recounting the exploits of these two men, the pages of “Jewish Heroes of Boxing” are replete with fascinating cameo appearances…
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“The golden age of prizefighting was the age of bad food, bad air, bad sanitation, and no sunlight. I keep the place like this for the fighters' own good…”
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I noticed he wore a Brooklyn Dodgers ring. The Dodgers, for whom there was no greater fan in New York than yours truly, was the perfect fit for Irving Rudd…
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Gleason's sat in the Fort Apache section of the South Bronx, streets so violent and depraved that Hollywood made them into a movie…
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Damon Runyon compared him to Jack Dempsey, calling him "the best-looking heavyweight prospect that had bobbed up in a long time…"
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Along with the great care and precision that Benny brought to his ringcraft was the essential nerve of the gambler...
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Baer swelled "magnificently in the right places" and had an "exhilarating clothes sense, his taste running to orchidaceous tones and new designs…"
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He had come within punching distance of the Holy Grail, only to be turned away by fate, which is always the most formidable opponent of all…
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He told me that he grew up in an Irish neighborhood, where he was called a Christ killer on Good Fridays. He learned to fight to defend himself…
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“I don’t agree with those who say that clever boxing is no longer popular. People today are simply not familiar with it…”
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Was Sam trying his best or was he protecting his San Francisco investment? Probably a bit of both, since Mr. Ketchel was nobody’s mug...
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Before sampling the punches of New York, Jack Dempsey had taken the blows meted out by his hard life in the Old West...
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Baer had kept his famous good looks throughout his ring career. Slapsie on the other hand looked like his face had been run over by a truck…
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The Jess Willard-Floyd Johnson fight was filmed, but the knockout footage was either lost or never captured. The existing footage is raw and unedited…
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Why is it that Joe Louis isn't more greatly studied and at least impersonated by the hopeful heavyweights of today? Why is the Louis style still unique?
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By 1950, when he sat down to reminisce with Barney Nagler of The Ring magazine, Whitey Bimstein had gained the status of living legend...
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Why do people find it so hard to understand that in a fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Jack Dempsey, it would be Wlad on the defensive?
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“If you watch videos of the old-time fights from the late 1920s through the 1930s right into the early ‘40s, invariably you’ll see Ray Arcel…”
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Like those that followed, like Harry Greb, Tiger Flowers, Battling Siki, and Salvador Sanchez, Pancho Villa’s life ended much too abruptly...
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One of his cheekbones had caved in. His jaw was broken, as was his nose. His ribs were busted. Many of his teeth had been knocked out…
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Some men just look like fighters. One look into their eyes, one scan of their features, and you know they’ve got the right stuff…
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Back to an unseasonably warm New York City night on May 15, 1978: it was a time when Studio 54 thrived and Disco Ducks roamed the streets...
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The keys to his success were that he had fast hands and feet, good boxing skills and a very hard punch with either hand…
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With all his experience in the advertizing business, Sugar cleverly promoted himself as the cigar-chomping front man, the Damon Runyon of his era...
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Boxing can be a cruelly deceptive sport. It can paint pretty pictures and then deface them at the drop of a hat...
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Prima donnas are great in grand opera, but not so grand when it comes to a great sport like boxing…
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For a man who had lived so hard and fought so violently, the last words of Stanley Ketchel were strangely gentle and poignant...