Ex-New York boxing commissioner on how the sweet – Latest News
Jabbing with the Commish
Randy Gordon is our former boxing commissioner — and who knew we had a former boxing commissioner — and even a present one.
Randy: “At 10 my proper aspect was burned badly in an explosion. Doctors stated I’d by no means stroll again. In a wheelchair for a yr. My tenth birthday, my dad and mom pushed me in entrance of our TV to watch the fights. In ’59, each Friday I’d watch them. I’d imitate the fighters by transferring my legs. Six months later, I attempted standing for the first time in a yr.
“Boxing brought my life back. I went to journalism school, wrote about boxing, announcing it, put my five kids through college with those earnings. Eventually inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, back in 1989, Gov. Mario Cuomo made me commissioner of NY State Athletic Commission and that’s my whole story.”
OK, so now, immediately, who’s the best boxer of all time?
“Sugar Ray Robinson.”
Hit in the head a lot, boxers appear a little much less vivid.
“Taken benefit of. They earn a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands. Easy to overspend on sports activities vehicles, houses for mates, girlfriends, jewellery. Spending however not investing. Once, mobs had control. Now cameras, many people, too many watchers. The sport’s cleaner. We tried getting Muhammad Ali, who had dozens of beginner fights, to get medical testing. Hitting on the head isn’t a good factor.
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our every day Post Opinion publication!
Thanks for signing up!
“There’s additionally arms. It’s a ability. Trained, they’re not harm in any respect. Not cut to ribbons. Noses not damaged. No scar tissue. That’s choreographed film stuff now. In the outdated days, yes. No more. Today it’s more a ballet.
“I’d like the rounds shortened, under three minutes, and to see they’re cared for financially.”
Listing spied
Itchy to flee Crapdami? Sean Connery’s former Nice, France, property Villa Roc Fleuri is back on the market. It’s Mediterranean views, rooftop deck, good Nice views, spa, pool, 5 bedrooms. Down from $30 mil, now simply a low small pitiful paltry poverty-level insignificant shrunken woeful embarrassing teeny $23.5 mil.
Scene & heard
Important information: De Blasio stepped into a porta-potty at a Ditmas BBQ. The door hit him as he waddled in. What occurred inside stays inside . . . Anna Wintour’s newie substitute obtained a scissor to her paycheck. Only making a shrinking, sinking awful $250,000 . . . Jerry Nadler, not waddling again for Congress, determined with the missus Joyce and collectively known as buddies earlier than calling press. Wonderful that Joyce now has him on their lonesome — only for herself . . . And Kevin Bacon: “When looking for a part I never get a haircut. Sometimes the hair grows to my shoulders. Casting agents would say: ‘What’s with the hippie look?’ Still, superstitious, I’d never get a trim until I got a part.”
HOF provides Fonz two thumbs up
Henry Winkler’s grabbed the TV Hall of Fame final month for enjoying Fonz on Nineteen Seventies factor “Happy Days.” Says celeb seer John Cohan: “Doesn’t deserve it. Was a takeoff on the Kookie character from ‘77 Sunset Strip.’ Kookie was a record seller star with that hit ‘Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb,)’ which every single person alive remembers.”
Down boys. Even I don’t keep in mind the report — or him.
Robert Downey Jr: “I crack open the NY Post first thing in the morning and the rest of my day goes downhill.”
Definitely not solely in New York, youngsters, not solely in New York.
