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"I found out they paid you to fight
and I liked to fight when I was a kid. I just went to the
gymnasium and asked for a tryout. That's all you fight for is
money. I never boxed as an amateur. I got two and a half dollars
the first time. I got beat. I was sixteen years old. Dick
Woodwer in Fairmont, West Virginia, about sixty-five miles south
of Pittsburgh. Everybody was busted around there. Nobody had any
money. I didn't want to work, see, and I found that this was a
better thing than working, fighting. I figured that if you
practiced and became good, why, you had a chance.
I didn't know how to fight. I was just learning how to fight.
It was like going to school, learning how to box. It took a
little time. You have to go and learn every day. Experience is
the greatest teacher. I tried to be a real good fighter. I
didn't want to be a bum. I wanted to be a real top-notcher. |
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Billy Conn-Peter Heller's "In This Corner...!"
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