When I accepted an invitation to the Oregon Veterans Boxers picnic the last Saturday in July at Clackamette Park in Portland, it was with much anticipation.
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Louie and his father were doing an interview with ESPN before his fight with Freddie Roach in Las Vegas in 1983. The reporter asked Sammy Burke when he first knew his son would be a boxer.
Pat McMurtry: The Fighting Leatherneck, by Austin Killeen. This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the IBRO Journal.
Leo Randolph: The Golden Prodigy by Austin Killeen. Having struck gold in Montreal at the 76 Olympics, Leo repeated the process in the pros.
If club fighters are the grass roots of boxing, then Barry Allison was definitely part of the grass roots of boxing in New England during the 1950’s.
Driving from Albuquerque, NM, I was headed north through South Western Colorado into Utah in search of South Jordan. I’ll never again complain about my 2-hour drive to Brockton, MA for an interview with Iron Mike Pusateri. Much of the terrain was open prairie as far as the eye could see. I wondered what I would do if my Toyota Echo decided to lay down and die in this vast wilderness.
It was a beautiful sunny day at the end of May, as I drove east on the Mass Turnpike looking for Exit 25 to South Boston.
Eddie Owens had an outstanding amateur career, never losing a bout in Western Massachusetts in over 35 fights.
Driving through the rain soaked streets of Brockton; I was searching for a little diner where I’d meet Mike Pusateri. Bob Benoit, who I had interviewed in a previous IBRO article, told me George’s Café had great food. I found my destination on 228 Belmont Street, George’s took up half the block and had 2 spacious parking lots. Entering this posh Italian American restaurant I stepped into a different era; it was the 1950’s.
