The boxing fans...

[Cutthroat]

I was wondering, were there ever any famous gangsters that would go to boxing fights regularly? You know such as people a part of mafias and **** like that.

[Hawkins]

I was wondering, were there ever any famous gangsters that would go to boxing fights regularly? You know such as people a part of mafias and **** like that.

Al Capone is probably the most famous. He even bought into the careers of certain fighters.

But organized crime as a whole has had a well documented interest into boxing.

[hhascup]

I was wondering, were there ever any famous gangsters that would go to boxing fights regularly? You know such as people a part of mafias and **** like that.

Most of the early gangsters went to the fights and were involved on a regular basis.

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