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Joe Mesi isn't like most of the other pugs you'll come across in this game.
As soon as he opens his mouth you know he's different than the rest of them. He's articulate and insightful and he expresses himself like maybe your neighbor the schoolteacher would. And that's fitting, because after all, he does have an education that allows him to teach school if that's the path he decides he wants to go down when all of this is over.
He's not mean looking or imposing like say a Mike Tyson, and he doesn't particularly look like a fighter. His jet-black hair, mahogany colored eyes, olive-colored skin and handsome features make him look like any other unassuming Italian guy you might see making pizzas behind the counter at your local pizzeria. While he's a big guy and in good shape he's not a freakish giant with bulging muscles like a lot of these other heavyweights lurking around the rings of the world today - and maybe all of that is his problem.
But those things would only be a little problem and that would only be part of the story.
"Baby" Joe Mesi, and he doesn't want you to call him "Baby" anymore, was on an incredible storybook-like run of boxing success until he ran into a right hand thrown by former Cruiserweight titlist Vasiliy "The Tiger" Jirov on a spring night in Las Vegas nearly three years ago. Mesi was undefeated, he was fighting for the second time in a row on HBO and he was being talked about as the next Rocky Marciano. You see, Joe Mesi was going to be the next great American heavyweight. [details]
As soon as he opens his mouth you know he's different than the rest of them. He's articulate and insightful and he expresses himself like maybe your neighbor the schoolteacher would. And that's fitting, because after all, he does have an education that allows him to teach school if that's the path he decides he wants to go down when all of this is over.
He's not mean looking or imposing like say a Mike Tyson, and he doesn't particularly look like a fighter. His jet-black hair, mahogany colored eyes, olive-colored skin and handsome features make him look like any other unassuming Italian guy you might see making pizzas behind the counter at your local pizzeria. While he's a big guy and in good shape he's not a freakish giant with bulging muscles like a lot of these other heavyweights lurking around the rings of the world today - and maybe all of that is his problem.
But those things would only be a little problem and that would only be part of the story.
"Baby" Joe Mesi, and he doesn't want you to call him "Baby" anymore, was on an incredible storybook-like run of boxing success until he ran into a right hand thrown by former Cruiserweight titlist Vasiliy "The Tiger" Jirov on a spring night in Las Vegas nearly three years ago. Mesi was undefeated, he was fighting for the second time in a row on HBO and he was being talked about as the next Rocky Marciano. You see, Joe Mesi was going to be the next great American heavyweight. [details]
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