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Kinky, whose band was named the Texas Jewboys,
is a real long shot to get the big gig in Austin but he is still serenading folks with his classic, "They Don't Make Jews like Jesus Any More." ...
Which reminds me, while we toast the Jewish New Year, how about baking a cake (preferably with some sharpened files inside) for colorful agent/promoter Harry
Barnett? Barnett, who goes back to the Dick Sadler/Sonny Liston era, always joked with me that I should send him a salami from Katz's (not the scribe with the neck brace) Deli. |
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Now that he is a
guest of the federal
government, I think
Harry would prefer
the special cake. We
need Harry back in
boxing and, if Don
King is so thick
with George Walker
Bush, he could prove
it by getting
Barnett a pardon.
Pardon me, like the
one Ohio Governor
James "I'm No
Scholar" Rhodes
granted DK.
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King could may apply
some white out to
his pardon to get a
white out.
From what I hear,
Harry would like to
get out
right...right
now...Harry is 68
and FCI Jesup, a
medium security
"Cub Fed"
near Savannah, shows
a release date of
7-3-07. so I
wouldn't be
surprised if Harry
is already planning
a fight card for
next July 4. Free
Harry! Formerly
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Which further reminds me I don't think either Bobby Czyz or Darrin Van Horn have started medical school yet. Van Horn's father, G.L. (Good Livin') Van Horn is also quite the character. His favorite sports were fencing (stolen goods), pimping and burglary. I once did a column on ole G.L. and he told me San Quentin was among his alma maters. It seems when Van Horn first got to California he "thought stealing was legal out there."...
Here's a shocker for Mr.
Czyz, by the way. When he fought Evander Holyfield in Madison
Square Garden, Czyz quit in his corner.
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Unfortunately, the TV mikes caught the one-time NBC "Matinee Idol" telling trainer Tommy Parks he was quitting and Parks responding, "OK, Bobby, I will tell thim it was your back." Now Holyfield keeps repeating that he was saddled with severe injuries that night and that he was ready to quit himself. "But other guy quit first," Holyfield said. If you recall, Holyfield looked so subpar in that fight King and Mike Tyson agreed to fight him. So, had Holyfield thrown in the towel before Czyz did, we may never have had the ear bite debacle or the two poundings the Real Deal gave
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Don
King's new stealth agent, Tricky
Ricky Glaser of the Buffalo Glasers,
is wondering if La Shana Tovah ever
fought LaFarrell Bunting. Glaser is
not wrapped too tight if you know
what I mean....
Informed sources tell me that Shelly Finkel is not so mad about not tinkling with Manny Pacquaio after the November 18 Erik Morales bout. How can you be mad when you made an initial investment of $30,000 into PacMan and will have reaped $4 million after that bout? I mean what's to be mad about? With that kind of loot, Finkel can wish PacMan a very fond farewell....
I don't think it was nice of Ms. Kathy Duva to rip Golden Boy and compare Oscar's company to Wal-Mart, do you? Unlike Wal-Mart, GBP employees do get two bathroom breaks per day. Although someone did tell me that he was in GBP office one day and heard this over the intercom: "Super bantamweight price check on Aisle 7."...
The lads down at Willie Savannah's boxing gym in Houston should not expect any free pizzas today from DeGuardia's Star Boxing. The pie deliveries were canceled when Joe D learned that Savannah protege and WBA lightweight champion Juan Diaz had signed a deal with King. I didn't know you could put in a stop/loss order on pizzas...
You can take the boy out of Harvard Dept.: Lou DiBella has come up with a proper name for the November 17 Celebrity Roast of Johnny Bos which appears headed for the Waterfront Crab House in Long Island City, Queens (10 minutes from midtown Manhattan). The name is
Bosfest 2006. Ticket information coming soon and, no, Bos was only kidding about starting a national tour...
Little more to what Uncle Bob Arum told Savannah about who he and Diaz should sign with. Arum did say he and King were "the only real promoters" in the business and, when Wily Willie mentioned Golden Boy, Arum ripped the whole crew and told Savannah, "Have they ever made a star in boxing? Name one. I made Oscar into a superstar." Arum also ripped so-called "equity partners," Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley, saying, that is a phoney baloney artifice strictly for p.r. purposes. Don't sugarcoat it, Bobster, tell us how you really feel about Oscar and his team...
Never say that King's mind does not remain a steel trap. And the key word is trap. When Savannah asked to be repaid $30,000 in training expenses he was supposed to get in 1988, King said, "Tell Willie the statute of limitations ran on that debt."...You can buy a lot of pizza pies, with jalapeno even, for 30 grand...
Cutman supremo Joe Souza, who trains boxers in an alley across from the Alamo, is talking up a 6-foot-5-inch Mexican heavyweight. DeGuardia hears about this and the enchiladas deliveries will be nonstop in San Antonio...
We were going to set up a fan chat for Juan Carlos Gomez, the troubled Cuban heavyweight, but we couldn't find any. Fans, that is...
Speaking of Sons Of Israel, and I don't mean great writer David Israel, p.r. veteran Bill Caplan's business card describes him as having a "Ph.d in Flackology." Please no jokes about mother flackers and the like. Late, great Unswerving But Deserving Arum p.r. maven Irving Rudd hated being called a p.r. specialist. He always insisted he was a "press agent."...
Just read where Jeff Lacy says "I'm back, I'm fresh, better than before," and asks for a rematch with Super Joe Calzaghe. Better than before? Does that mean you will only lose 11 rounds in a rematch. Hey, Jeff, let me remind you of one of grandpappy's old sayings, "People in hell want ice water." You really couldn't do a reality program about Lacy because he exists in some dream world...
Next thing you know Lacy will enroll at the Ronald "Winky" Wright School of Boxing Promotion where I think the (Dizzy) Dean is none other than Matt "America Pretends" Tinley. Dean Tinley's famous course is how to get a small fortune in the boxing business. Prequisite to this advanced course is starting with a big fortune...
While strolling through the Bronx Zoo, it occurred to me that since you saw how Joan Guzman made a monkey out of Jorge Barrios, what would the Dominican Dandy have made out of Scott Harrison? Orangutangs come to mind....
Trivial trivia. Holyfield's second pro opponent, Eric Winbush, went to Brighton High School (Boston) with me and some kid named Robert Trieger who, or so I hear, is an ace boxing publicist. Trieger was a baseball shortstop and "the white spot" on the busted flush of a basketball team kind of like Dave Cowens at Florida State only Cowens was taller.
No wonder I feel young being around Commander 'Vander...
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