Comments Thread For: Don Chargin Remembers Close Friend Carmen Basilio

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Every summer, California-based promoter Don Chargin makes an annual trip to Canastota, N.Y., to visit old friends and fellow enshrinees at the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

When he returns to “The Showplace of Boxing” next year, he will do it with a heavy heart as Carmen Basilio, the man who always sits next him during the induction speeches, has passed away at age 85 due to complications from pneumonia.

“Carmen was one of my best friends in boxing, and it was always a pleasure to see him there [at the Hall of Fame] every year,” Chargin told BoxingScene
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[mrpain81]

Chargin has forgotten more about boxing then most of us will ever know.

[edgarg]

Originally Posted by mrpain81

Chargin has forgotten more about boxing then most of us will ever know.

I always regard this as a humourous comment. What good is it if he has forgotten it..........

[New England]

Originally Posted by edgarg

I always regard this as a humourous comment. What good is it if he has forgotten it..........

if he's forgotten more than others know, just think of all the great stuff he remembers...

[Frank Ducketts]

9 of them are wrong!

R.I.P Mr Basilio!