That time Paddy Ryan was stabbed for not fighting Joe Goss

[Marchegiano]

I'm going to share a story I've picked up only bits and pieces of in hopes someone knows more about it.

Paddy Ryan was scheduled to fight Joe Goss in Brooklyn. The fight fell apart when the fighters met the promoter and they were told because of lower than expected ticket sales they would only be paid 100 dollars instead of the 400 they were promised. The fighters refused to fight and left for a night of drinking.

Charles Cooley was also scheduled to perform on that card. With the main event out the promoter decided the scrap the whole affair leaving Cooley without a purse to fight for. Out of revenge Cooley meets up with Goss and Ryan in a bar, both are badly beaten but Ryan takes the worst of it with a stab wound in the back.

I believe Cooley is a lightweight.

[JAB5239]

I'm going to share a story I've picked up only bits and pieces of in hopes someone knows more about it.

Paddy Ryan was scheduled to fight Joe Goss in Brooklyn. The fight fell apart when the fighters met the promoter and they were told because of lower than expected ticket sales they would only be paid 100 dollars instead of the 400 they were promised. The fighters refused to fight and left for a night of drinking.

Charles Cooley was also scheduled to perform on that card. With the main event out the promoter decided the scrap the whole affair leaving Cooley without a purse to fight for. Out of revenge Cooley meets up with Goss and Ryan in a bar, both are badly beaten but Ryan takes the worst of it with a stab wound in the back.

I believe Cooley is a lightweight.

Never heard of this and haven't bothered to fact check, bit I love it. I love when a fighter could or would take control of his money....whether he received it or got screwed out of of it. I hate the politics and laws today the bind a man's hands thru no fault of their own.

[Ben Bolt]

I love when a fighter could or would take control of his money.

In a back issue of The Ring, I read about this trainer whose name I have forgot, but who I really had wanted to highlight on this subject.

He told his young fighters, that being guided by a (honest) financial adviser is as important as a trainer, if to be successful in the proboxing world.