JULY 2006
01 Rinsing Off the
Mouthpiece
By GorDoom
02 Poem of the Month
By Tom Smario
03 Pollack's Picks
By Adam Pollack
04 Top Women Worth Watching
and Televising
By Adam Pollack
05 Holman Williams Belongs
in
the Hall of Fame
By Harry Otty
06 Touching Gloves
With...
"Joltin" Jeff Chandler
By Dan Hanley
07 Puppy Garcia Was
Something Special
By Enrique Encinosa
08 Muhammad's Real War
By Cliff Endicott
09 Champagne On Ice
By Ron Lipton
10 "Dick Tiger: The Life and Times
of a Boxing Immortal"
By Adeyinka Makinde
11 Floyd Patterson:
He
Always Got Up
By Ron Lipton
12 Nat Fleischer, "Mr.
Boxing"
By Monte Cox
13 "Ring of Hate"
Book
Review by J.D. Vena
14 "Gilroy Was
Here"
Book Review by Mike Delisa
15 Audio
From the Archives [mp3]
The CBZ presents another classic boxing-themed radio
show. This month we have the Thin Man in "The Passionate Palooka," from July 6,
1948
|
"Dick Tiger: The Life
and
Times of a
Boxing Immortal"
By Adeyinka Makinde
Chapter Five/"Reborn" -- Mickey Duff, an ex-fighter and now the rising matchmaker for Harry Levene promotions, had
seen Tiger lose by a decision. To him, Tiger's six-wins-to-five-losses record spelt
"journeyman fighter" convenient fodder for Terry Downes, the great hope of British boxing.
"I thought I had done my homework," Duff recalled in his autobiography. "I had seen Tiger
lose to a nobody in Liverpool and thought he was a perfect opponent –- one who would make
a show but wouldn't be good enough to win."
A lot was expected of Downes. He had taken up boxing during a brief sojourn in the United
States, fighting for the Marines as well as in Golden Gloves competitions. His record was
solid enough to have him co-opted onto the American Olympic squad bound for the Melbourne
games until it was discovered that he was not an American national.
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WAIL! THE CYBER BOXING ZONE
JOURNAL
Spiritual Advisor on All Matters Fistic:
Hank
Kaplan
Founder/Co-Publisher/Editor
Wail! & Encyclopedia:
Michael DeLisa
Co-Publisher/Editor-in-Chief:
Stephen Gordon
Associate Editor/Media Relations:
J.D. Vena
Managing Editor/Copy Chief:
Todd Hodgson
Associate Editors:
Katherine Dunn,
Lucius Shepard
History & Research:
Director of
Research: Tracy Callis
CBZ Staff
Historians: Dan Cuoco,
Hank Kaplan, Matt Tegen, Kevin Smith,
Harry Otty, Barry Deskins, Matt Donnellon,
Joe Grantham Staff Writers:
Juan C. Allyon, Chris
Bushnell, DscribeDC,
Katherine Dunn, Dan Hanley, Ron Lipton,
Eric Jorgensen,
Adam Pollack,
J.D. Vena, Lucius Shepard, Dean Vios
Contributing Writers:
Matt Boyd, Steve Coughlin, Monte
Cox,
Brian Donegan, Enrique Encinosa,
Pete Ehrmann, Pedro Fernandez, Eldon
Frost,
Dave Iamele, Eric Jorgensen, Joe Koizumi,
Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Tom Smario,
Jim Trunzo,
Fabian Weber, Randy Gordon, Greg Beyer
Web Masters:
Dan Klepner, Dean Vios |
