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[trinidadpr87]

I really have no idea, but the modesty in that statement makes it sound like something Angelo Dundee would say.

Nice guess.You really know your history.

[Yogi]

Nice guess.You really know your history.

I read Dundee's book a couple of months ago (called "I Only Talk Winning"), and he came across in it as an exceptionally modest man (which also comes across in some interviews that he did). That was still a lucky guess, though, because I've never actually heard or read that statement from him before.

[Yogi]

Here's some written words in regards to Ad Wolgast, which was featured in the Sept. 2001 issue of The Ring (their "20 Greatest Lightweights" issue). It'll give some who don't know a bit of an idea of what type of fighter and man 'The Michigan Wildcat' was during his time;

"Some guys achieve ring immortality by using their brains more than their brawn, and their speed more than their power. Benny Leonard and Pernell Whitaker are perfect examples. They use technique rather than brutality, and a nice straight jab rather than a wild left hook. That worked for a lot of guys. It did not work for Wolgast. What worked for him was being a dirty, relentless, tough-as-steel streetfighter who wanted to beat your brains out with his bare hands if they let him. He was crude and unapologetic, and there wasn't a lightweight--with the possible exception of Roberto Duran, with whom Wolgast shared some things in common, philosophically--with whom one would want less to share a dark alley. This was not a nice guy."

Here's a couple of links which deal with one of the greatest fueds in the history of boxing, including a description of Wolgast's famous and bloody 40-round fight against his archrival, Battling Nelson;

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/4980/nelsonwolgast.htm

and...

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/4980/californiagreat.htm