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Show Rose {1/20/83) page 29 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R You went on your way, and the gloves would lay on the ground until two other guys would nick them up. Well, in Denver it was a little They didn't have them on the street. more sophist 1cated. ,~ They had rings. They had 3 rings that were in connection with the, as I remember, a trailer court, something in the nature of a trailer court, or cheap motels; the long west Colfax Avenue in Denver. They had a ring there. In the middle of it? Yeah, and a lot of nights the lights would be on and some guy would be in there with gloves on and if you felt like it, you'd climb in the ring. So, I can't put fights out of context. They were no great thing for me. If you're going to fight without an excuse it wasn't a great thing to fight for what you thought was an excuse or a reason for it. ~ Like drinking water for you, well, almost. Well, no, because first you stand there and you watch them and the~ -"? _.; r ~ fi .J ' • n e.. the -"'dPenila" gets pumping a little bit, and then you're saying "well?". "Should I?" No, I don't think it was ever "should I?~ It was ftdo I think I can whip him?" Now, for example, I wouldn't go in with a fellow that was half my size. From time to time, I might go in with a fellow who was a little heavier than I was. In the fina1 analas1s you come to a realization that that weight is a serious considera-t1on, and you can see it on the screen if you watch it. The flywe1E fight flyweights, the flyweights don't fight lightweights, and the lightweights don't fight middleweights. When they try, they get knocked off. With the exception, of course, of Sugar Ray Robinson. |
