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06/29/2006 Archived Entry: "A Big Man Will Hurt You, A Little Man Will Kill You"

A Big Man Will Hurt You, A Little Man Will Kill You

By Ron Lipton
Courtesy of East Side Boxing


The Arena gym known as Mooksie’s was a famous Newark boxing landmark which used to be located at 230 Market Street. I heard about it one day while training at the East Orange YMCA in New Jersey in the early 1960’s.

While training at the East Orange “Y” for hours on end hitting the speed bag and the one heavy bag they had in the weight room, I ran into the famous bodybuilder Bill Grant who later held the IFBB title “Mr. World.”

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