Packy’s World: John Wayne, Al Haymon SHOCKER, Floyd Mayweather, JR Would Get Stopped by Beau Jack & Erik Weihenmayer Awarded The Chutzpah Award

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By Packy “Boom Boom” Goldstein

Oy Vay are you going to hear it today… What a weekend. Sadie broke my bagels over the kitchen renovation which now has exceeded 50k! We were on a 35K budget, but as my Sadie can make money disappear like Al used to back in the day with a broad from the 500 Club in Atlantic City. Al was something in those days before he became a father to Bradley AKA “Bad” Brad many – many years later. He would pull women sometimes a foot taller than his 5’2 self, which always cracked me up. I will never stop missing my pal.

John Wayne…. He is an American Icon and though I have many favorites movies of his, I loved The Quiet Man the most. However, and most may think I am nuts, I really enjoyed a few movies he made towards the end of his life called McQ and Brannigan where he played a detective.

Al Haymon… We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Who the heck is Al Haymon? You never see him at the fights, and he hides more than John Dillinger did years back. However, I don’t care who he is or what he looks like. If he truly is responsible for single handily bringing boxing back to network TV, than good for him I say. He will not get a kick in the bagels from ole “Boom Boom”.

Floyd Mayweather, JR. – Beau Jack… First of all, I knew Beau through Alvin when he worked at the Fountainbleu Hotel on Miami Beach back in the 50’s and 60’s. Jack owned a shoeshine stand there. Alvin and Beau got along very well. So well, that they hadn’t seen each other for years when they would run into each other at one of Bradley’s boxing matches in 1981 at the Elizabeth Virrick Gym in Coconut Grove Florida. You would have thought no time elapsed hearing those two guys talk. Beau as probably a lot of my readers know, was the lightweight champion of the world and at lightweight, he would have knocked Floyd Mayweather, JR. out within six rounds. The pressure Jack would put on him along with his hooks to the body would bust Mayweather, JR. up something like he has never been hit in all of his 48 bouts to date.

The Chutzpah Award… Over the weekend I watched Real Sports on HBO and though I think Bryant Gumbel is full of himself, I think he has some great reporters on his show. Once such correspondent is David Scott, who chronicled blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, who was not born blind, but went on to be in his early teenage years. What an amazing person he is with a will I have only seen in fighters of years gone by. When you look up the word Chutzpah, Erik’s picture is there. To say I was moved by his story is an understatement!

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