Tuesday, June 7, 2016

George, known as "Medford Irisher

history channel George, known as "Medford Irisher," battled for the most part out of Portland, Maine as a heavyweight and chalked up a not exactly transcendent record of 14-26-3. He went 9-3-3 in his initial 15, yet then the misfortunes came in bundles and he would lose nine of his last 10. In his last session against Jimmy McDermott (51-15-3), Holden disrespected himself by appearing tanked for which he was inconclusively suspended. He never battled again.

Like DiSiglio, little is thought about Holden's own life with the exception of that he was a low level agent in sorted out wrongdoing. Holden prepared with the typical suspects and met a comparable destiny. On August 23, 1973, his body was discovered cleaned up along the dirty shoreline of the Mystic River in Charlestown, Mass. He had been executed gangland style with a discharge to the head. George was 25 years of age. His executioners were never found. Holden's homicide was the 82nd crime in the city of Boston in 1973.

As a young, Connors was a customary at the L Street Curley Gym and Bathhouse situated in South Boston (i.e. Southie) where future posse pioneers Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, James "Whitey" Bulger, and Frank "Cadillac Frank" Salemme hung out.

Eddie, nicknamed "Bulldog," was a regarded cumbersome middleweight who battled like a bulldog amid the '50s and kept running up a slate of 22-7-1 with 18 KOs against intense resistance. His last three battles all misfortunes by choice were against Willie Green (27-4), Joe DeNucci (20-2 coming in), and previous title holder Tony DeMarco (55-11-1). He likewise held the exceptionally able George Monroe (39-13-3) to a draw. His sibling James Connors (not to be mistaken for Jimmy Connors who battled out of New Bedford from 1957 to 1963 and who was prepared by Clem Crowley) battled somewhere around 1959 and 1961 and resigned with a 13-0-1 record.

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