I he teuteu ki he Rāmere o Puerto Rican mekemeke Classic i te 2300 Arena i roto i te Philadelphia, kaiwhakatairanga J Russell Peltz, International Mekemeke Hall o Rongonui , te piha haapiiraa o 2004, manatu tona timatanga i roto i te mekemeke 46 matahiti i ma'iri a'e.

I teie mahana whakanui-ranei ahau pea mau-te huritau 46 o toku whawhai tuatahi i rite ki te kaiwhakatairanga mekemeke. I taea kua tatari tetahi tau e wha e ahau ki te tuhituhi tenei kōrero, engari e mea rite te wa roa i teie nei, me te bet noa roa ki te tae i taua taumata.

Ka kite ahau i anake i te meneti torutoru o toku kāri mekemeke tuatahi. Ko te Hepetema. 30, 1969, i te Blue Horizon-kore ano rongonui-a ko ahau femo'uekina i roto i te tari pouaka ki te mama, hoko tīkiti ki te whakamutunga o te 1,606 iwi romia e matou i roto i reira i taua po ki te whanga ki whitu Bennie Briscoe whakangaro Tito Marshall i roto i to ratou rematch. Mau tatou ka tahuri atu te iwi i taua po, me e te tahi mea e kore ahau e mahi i ano. He aha I whakaaro ahau?

Tera tetahi miscommunication ki te uniana i tukuna nga kaihoko titeti na ka taka ratou ki te whakaatu, Utua e ahau mama-gratis, o te akoranga-a tauturu ia ki te hoko i te tīkiti.

Ko ahau 22 tau, 15 marama i muri i tu'ite i te fare temepara me iti iho i te 30 tangohia ra i mahi-wa tonu i runga i te tokotoko hākinakina i Ko te Evening Bulletin. I hiahiatia e ahau te mekemeke whiua i Ko te Bulletin, engari ka e ahau te manawanui ai ka Jack Parai, te kaituhi mekemeke, ka te toronga i runga i tana whakatānga whakahauanga i pakeke 65 a kihai i ahau e pā ana ki ki te whakairi a tawhio noa tatari ki a ia mo te mutu ranei, rite papa e mea, whana i te peere.

Na ka meatia e ahau ta nga Grad kāreti-tau 22-tau nei i whakaarahia i runga i te whaimana Raina Main e rave-e ahau riro te kaiwhakatairanga mekemeke.

I whakaorangia ahau e pā ana ki $5,000 i roto i te kāreti mai ahau i-wa tonu i runga i te mea ka karangatia e ratou i te mahi Kōura Shift i Ko te Bulletin, tīmata i te raumati i muri i toku tau teina i te hiero. Mahi ahau i po ki 8 ahau, kōrero whakatika, tuhituhi tapanga me matua, me te mahi i re-tuhi. Katahi Hiahia peia ahau i 30 & Market Street ki Te Tai Tokerau Broad Street mo toku tau matua i te hiero, haere ki te piha haapiiraa i 9 ahau ki te 1 pm, Na peia home ki Piriha Cynwyd ki te haere ki te moe.

Ko te he tau pou-Olympic i roto i Philly me i reira ko taranata i runga i nga ara katoa. Mahara ahau te mutunga o te raumati o 1969, peia ake Columbia Avenue-i teie nei Cecil B. Moore-a tahuri tika muri 22d Street wahi tahuri Columbia ki Ridge. E rua ngā whare i te koki tu te kapi, ko Café o Roach. I te tihi o te Roach Café, ake te rere pari o arawhata, ko Champs Faleva'inga, rere e Quenzell McCall, nana nei i hanga whakangungu Percy Bassett ko Leotis Martin me Kitten Hayward me Briscoe me te maha atu whawhai Philly runga ona wheua.

Tutaki ahau Sam Horomona, he tangata a tawhio-hinana friendly nei fatuhia te horoi kākahu i roto i Te Hau-ā-uru Philadelphia, a faaite ahau e ia ki tona toa hou, he momo-tau 17-tau nei i titiro ki te tahuri pro. Ko tona ingoa Eugene Hart. Tapaina a Sam ia Huripari.

He tau mua, i te omaoma i te whawhe o te Ekalesia Faaiteraa i 12 & Norris, tika atu wānanga o te hiero, I uiui e ahau tetahi atu kuao kaimekemeke amateur mō te kōrero i tuhituhi ahau mo Ko te Bulletin. Ko tona ingoa Bobby Watts. Ka karanga ratou ki a ia Boogaloo.

Kihai i reira kua he kāri whawhai pro i roto i Philly mai Mei, ka i rite mo te tahi mahi pā rohe.

I moe ahau o ia toku whakapakoko apîraa, Hall-o-Famer Harold Johnson, i roto i te hui matua, engari e kore e taea e ahau te ringa i te $2,000 hiahia ia. I riro ahau hoa ki a Pat Duffy, ka tuhituhia ētahi kōrero e pā ana ki runaruna mekemeke i ahau i Ko te Bulletin. Mana Duffy te amateurs i roto i te rohe tri-kāwanatanga, ka i ia tona ringa i roto i te AtAKi rite te pai. I whai wāhi ia ki Leotis Martin ko Sammy Goss ko Bennie Briscoe me mo te taurangi o $1,000 ki te ōrau o te rihīti kuwaha ka e ahau Briscoe ki te whawhai i te rematch ki Marshall, nei i mea patu Bennie wha nga tau i mua.

Duffy ano i te taumahamaha Jerry Tiati ingoa, i te wāhanga Kensington o Philly, a tapiritia e ahau ia ki te kāri i roto i tona tuatahi pro. I runga i te pānui i tāutuhia e ahau te whakawa i rite te Kensington Heavyweight Champion. Tino!

George Hill, i te whakangungu i Champs Faleva'inga, whakaae ki te hanga i tona ake tuatahi pro ki Tiati.

Jimmy Toppi, Jr., fatuhia te Blue Horizon. Whakanuinga ia whawhai i ngā wāhi Philly i roto i te 1940, me te 1950, me te taenga atu ano i rongo ia e pā ana ki toku hui matua, tohu ia he sellout. Toppi e kati tana mahi i nga ra katoa i 2 pm, na e peia e ahau i runga i ki te Blue Horizon i toku fare i roto i te wāhanga Germantown o te pa, waka ki waho, ka tatari ki te kite, ki te e whakaatu tetahi kiritaki ake ki te hoko tīkiti. Taime atoa kite ahau i te tangata waea te opani i te Blue Horizon, Hiahia te puta atu ahau o toku motokā, karanga i runga ki a ratou, ka hoko ia ratou tikiti i roto i toku kātua.

Ka huihui te kāri, ahakoa Watts’ hoariri taketake, Te Tai Tokerau Philly hoa Lloyd News kino Nelson, whakakorea atu te rua wiki i mua i te whakaaturanga, a ehara i te mea noa tata ki Hepetema. 30 e kitea e ahau Ron Nesby, i te whakangungu i omaoma Gil Clancy o roto i New York.

Papa ko i te paipa, whakawera, me te rangi-conditioning pakihi, a tangohia ana e ia 100 tīkiti ringside a hoatu ratou e ia i ki tona hoa pakihi. Utua e ia ki ahau mo te katoa o ratou-e ratou i $5 o tetahi,. Te mana'o nei au ko ia hoha'a e kore e meinga e ahau te reira i roto i te mekemeke. Ka haere mai toku matua keke Bob ki te whawhai, a ka eke ia mate i muri i te kai i te hotdog Blue Horizon.

Ko ahau i te kori nga po, Champs me te PAL 23 i roto i Te Tai Tokerau Philly, Passyunk me te Juniper Faleva'inga i South Philly. Na, i reira etahi engari i te hunga Fab Whā.

Malcolm “Flash” Gordon, he junkie mekemeke New York roa-rouru nei i hokona e te mīhini mimeograph ki tona moni mua tau Pae whakahau, whakaae ki te hoko i ana ngā hōtaka i teie nei-rongonui i te whawhai mo 25 sēniti ia.

Tom Cushman, te kaituhi mekemeke mo te Daily News, Ko te kaitākaro matua. I tutaki ahau Cushman i Oklahoma City i te tau torutoru mua. I mutu ia i reira–i runga i tona ara Te Tai Rāwhiti i Denver ki te tīmata i tana mahi hou i te Daily News-ki te taupoki ana te kapa poitūkohu o hiero i roto i te whakataetae Kirihimete, a ko ahau i reira, ano he kaituhi mō Ko te Bulletin.

Mohio Cushman e kaituhi mekemeke i ētahi atu nūpepa i roto i te pa ka tango moni i raro i te tepu i ngā kaiwhakatairanga ki te tuhituhi kōrero whawhai-mua, a ka korerotia e ia ki ahau, ki te ake ake ia mau te mahi ki ahau e taea e kihi ahau to tatou poroporoaki auhoaraa. Ehara i te mea tupono noa!

Ko te Inquirer kupu matua te ra i te aroaro o toku kāri: He Peltz Rite Hei Tiki i tihore?

Hokona matou i roto i. I te wa, te 1,606 pā i roto i te haereraa i māngai te mano nui i roto i te aamu i te Blue Horizon o. Ko te kuwaha ko $6,010 ki tīkiti utu i $3 a $5. Haere mai ōrau o Briscoe ki $1,314.58 a haere atu Marshall ki $788.75.

Whiua whitu Oscar Coor Clarence Finney i roto i te-rounder wha katoa-rohe ki te whakatuwhera i te kāri-i runga i te wā, fakanatula, i 8 pm-a Huripari Whakatangihia atu South Philly o Sheldon Moore Hart, kihai nei i whakahoki te pere mo te a tawhio noa e rua. Mahi pakeke Jerry Tiati, a mutu George Hill i roto i te wha o tawhio noa, me Boogaloo Watts-pouaka i roto i Ron Nesby i roto i te 6. I roto i te hui matua, Briscoe i te hau. Ripekatia ia Marshall i raro i te whitiki wawe a ka amuamu Tito ki te tohutoro, Haere Bennie runga, a ko reira katoa i runga i roto i 60 hēkona. E kore Marshall pouaka ano.

Columnist Sandy Grady ko reira i Ko te Bulletin. Tona kōrero te ra i muri mai–Mai True haurangi Dream–korerotia e pā ana ki toku matapae i roto i te kāreti e te ra kotahi oku hoa kia haere mai ki toku kāri whawhai. Ia i tuhituhi ano hoki e toku (tuatahi) wahine a i noho ahau i roto i te fare i roto i Germantown me nga mea anake i roto i te reira i te moenga, he huinga TV, me te ngeru, ko Ophelia. Ki te moni i hanga tatou i taua po ($1,438.83), I tuhituhi Grady e pea inaianei e hoko tatou i te tahi taonga.

He marama ruarua mua, ui toku wahine i ahau te whakaaro ki ahau, i taea e ahau hei angitu i roto i tenei mahi te mea i hanga. Ka korerotia e ahau ki a ia kia tangohia te reira ahau e pā ana ki ono marama ki te whakatangi oku penapena engari hiahia whai i ahau he scrapbook nui te ra kotahi ki te faaite i to tatou tamariki e pā ana ki te wa ratou Teti ko te kaiwhakatairanga mekemeke.