US Army, Vietnam War, Boxing & More – Carlos Palomino Looks Back Part I

Exclusive Interview by “Bad” Brad Berkwitt

(Interview conducted in 2010)

“To hear from my Mother that my Father had cried tears of joy when he heard I won the WBC Welterweight Title, meant the world to me.” – Carlos Palomino

The magical movie screens of the early 1930s to the late 1940’s had legendary actor/swashbuckler Errol Flynn with his Matinee Day Idol looks and many adoring female fans flocking to get a close up of him. During the mid to late 1970’s the boxing world had an equivalent to Flynn in the charisma and good looks department in former WBC Welterweight Champion of the World, Carlos Palomino. Carlos had flocks of women fans pushing up to get a closer look at him that would have made Errol a jealous guy for sure. Both Flynn and Palomino share the fact they were both boxers and even acted in boxing movies with Flynn in that great bio of James J. Corbett titled, “Gentlemen Jim” and Palomino played opposite former NYPD Blue star Jimmy Smits in the boxing movie titled, “Price of Glory.”

On June 22, 1976, Carlos Palomino went into the record books as the new World Boxing Council (WBC) Welterweight Champion of the World when he defeated then Champion, John H. Stracey, via a knockout, in the 12th round of a scheduled 15 rounder. Palomino made seven successful title defenses and retired from boxing just shy of his thirtieth birthday, the first time around.

He went on to success in movies, commercials and TV and who can ever forget his appearance on the popular 70’s TV show Taxi when he played The Champ opposite Judd Hirsh and Tony Danza in an episode called “One-Punch Banta”

Palomino brings some heavy credentials from all facets of his successful life to Ringside Report and in his answers, he will show you, the readers, why he is now forever linked with RSR “The Heart of Boxing” website. Without further ado – Carlos Palomino…

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