Thanks for that link. It was a very good read and I learned alot. It got pretty depressing towards the end though.
Not sure about most of them, but I found the ease in which they made up fights out of thin air rather interesting.
Yeah, most fights is a stretch. You'll find most guys during that time period usually had a couple shady fights on their record that went one way or the other. Interesting how you can ruin a guys career even when the set-up goes in his favor. The mind can really fuck with you. I just read an old article recently about Tommy Campbell, a very good west coast lightweight who was forced to throw some fights and how it ate him up. He was managed by Babe McCoy who was basically the West Coast version of Blinky Palermo. He beat champions Joe Brown and Wallace Bud Smith and drew with Jimmy Carter. Anyways he was forced to throw a fight against Art Aragon. He said he almost knocked Aragon out before he was supposed to take his dive in the 4th and almost scared himself to death. A few fight later McCoy sends Campbell to Minnesota to act as a fall guy for the highly touted Flanagan brothers who were local heroes in that area. Del Flanagan was 51-0 with a bunch of KO's at the time. Campbell gave McCoy a big fuck you and went out and beat Flanagan in his hometown, giving him his first loss. A week later he beat his 49-7 brother Glen. They match him up with Del in Minneapolis again 3 weeks later and Campbell puts him down for a 9 count and escapes with a draw. McCoy is pissed and drops Campbell who from then on out has trouble finding fights. In his last fight he beats future champion Wallace Bud Smith and he never fights again.
