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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on September 24, 2013, 12:48:26 PM
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Here's a clue: Pick a fight with a retired boxing champ....... ;D
Former Boxing Champ, 54, Coldcocks Young Bully on Street
http://www.fightsaga.com/boxing-videos/item/3427-Former-Boxing-Champ,-54,-Coldcocks-Young-Bully-on-Street-Video
A young man made a very unwise move.
He decided to try to bully a rather plain-looking 54 year old.
But this wasn't an ordinary 54 year old.
Unbeknownst, perhaps, to the young bully, it was former WBA Featherweight Champion Rocky Lockridge (44-9, 36 KO).
The same Rocky Lockridge who knocked out a then-undefeated Roger Mayweather in just 98 seconds in 1984.
The same fella who lost a somewhat arguable majority decision to a young Julio Cesar Chavez in 1986.
And it's the same pugilist who often fought on national TV in the U.S. during the 1980s.
Lockridge, a native of Tacoma, WA, is one of four world champions from that city. The others are Freddie Steele, Leo Randolph, and Johnny Bumphus.
Having last fought in 1992, Rocky turned pro in 1978 and faced notable pugilists such as Wilfredo Gomez, Tony 'The Tiger' Lopez, Roger Mayweather, Sharmba Mitchell, Rafael Ruelas and, of course, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
Sadly, in the years following his retirement in the early 1990s, Lockridge was saddled with drug problems. He eventually went unemployed and homeless, and suffered a stroke that forced him to walk with a cane.
The story of ex-champ's battle with drug addiction was profiled on an April 5, 2010 episode of Intervention, an American television reality show that focused on getting addicts to admit their problem and seek treatment. As part of the show, the addicts are given the opportunity to enter a 3-month, all-expense-paid rehab center.
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talk shit get hit.
or victim selection failure
;D