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Entries tagged with "Joey+Giardello":

• Why Old Gold Beats New Glitter – September 20th, 2011

  Keeping the faith in what we have today becomes ever tougher when so many of boxing’s wounds are cynically and greedily self-inflicted...
  
  

• One Tough Cat: Dick Tiger – October 18th, 2011

  The need to call upon my golden memories becomes ever greater in order to ward off despair...
  
  

• Tony DeMarco: I’m a Puncher – December 24th, 2011

  “I met Carbo,” DeMarco said of Frankie Carbo, aka Mr. Gray. “Those guys were wiseguys and they loved to own a fighter. It was like owning a racehorse…”
  
  

• Chico Vejar: Quintessential 1950s – December 26th, 2011

  There is more to Chico Vejar than toughness; there always was nobility and great sense of dignity…
  
  

• Brawls and Bruises: Gene Fullmer – January 31st, 2012

  Prizefighters constitute a very special group of men. They cannot be number crunched, packaged and neatly filed...
  
  

• In Praise of a Prizefighting Leatherneck – April 15th, 2012

  There are many famous boxers who were also Marines. Gene Tunney, Ken Norton, and Carmen Basilio come immediately to mind…
  
  

• 1954: Joey Giardello at His Very Best – April 22nd, 2012

  It might just be forever and a day before Giardello gets his just recognition as one of history’s finest middleweight ring mechanics...
  
  

• Loughran-Hopkins: “The Philadelphia Fighter” – April 23rd, 2012

  So here are the lives and careers of two Philadelphia fighters. In many ways the men are stunningly different and yet the same…