Louie Burke
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.
Austin Killeen
Pat McMurtry
Pat McMurtry: The Fighting Leatherneck, by Austin Killeen. This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the IBRO Journal.
Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph: The Golden Prodigy by Austin Killeen. Having struck gold in Montreal at the 76 Olympics, Leo repeated the process in the pros.
Barry Allison
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.
Don Fullmer
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.
Danny Long
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
Eddie Owens had an outstanding amateur career, never losing a bout in Western Massachusetts in over 35 fights.
Mike Pusateri
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.
Wilbert “Skeeter” McClure
October 29, 1938. . . In the 22 Brand-Whitlock Homes, a Federal Housing project in intercity Toledo, Ohio, a young girl was in labor for the 1st time in her life. An anxious husband paced in the hallway outside their bedroom. Dr. Hart had everything under control when he announced that a baby boy had just arrived into the world. An announcement that was difficult to hear over the newborn’s first cries for breath. When the new father entered the bedroom to see his first born he exclaimed “why he’s no bigger than a skeeter!” Thus a newborn child had a nickname before he had a first name. Wilbert Jessie Lamont and Evelyn McClure were the proud parents of little Wilbert McClure.
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