A Look Back at The Career of Willie "The Worm" Monroe
Willie “The Worm” Monroe was boxing a six-rounder against Ted Hamilton, a scrawny white kid out of Fairmount, WV. This was in April 22, 1970, at the Blue Horizon. I was 22 years old; Monroe was 23 and he had won all four of his pro fights by knockout. We billed Hamilton as the middleweight champion of West Virginia which didn’t quite carry the same weight as, say, the middleweight champion of New York.
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