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Show Rose (1/1?/83) page 26 ~r. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R it, or make a week of it, you know, or whatever way they would do it. ~hat did it mean to you to fight during this time? I guess I can best answer that by saying I was on an ego kick, that's part of it. Were you pretty good? Yeah, I was pretty good •. a little bit better than prettv good. And the other thing was that if we won we got watches and the guy , '. that gave us the watch would meet us outsid~ and then~. oh.I don't know exactly, I guess 1we got as~ as $10, it depends on how much money he made a. those smokers and things. Then we'd get ts for a watch, and hell, it was better wages than I got from my one professional fight that I got the hell knocked out of met Boy, was that a fight. I want to tell you something - actually it was all over,I realized the terrible mistake I made in that fight. a~hrough the fight it never secured to me, I was too stupid, to lay downt Oh, gees. I won it for one round, then I ran out of gas. For 3 rounds that guy, oh, God, how I cried afterward. I should have killed him. Why? He really beat on you? I had the capability to beat him; I didn't have the~ strength or the endurance to beat him. So, he really beat on you? Oh, sure. Oh, he gave me a trouncing, gee. That happened to me twice. When I was in the a~y I fought a guy ••• I fought a big one, and I knocked the hell out of him and then all of a sudden I got to go to the toilet - I got one round to go, and how the do you stop fighting and say "I gotta go to the toilet"?l So, |
