{"id":52712,"date":"2015-05-19T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52712"},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T04:43:58","slug":"packys-world-gennady-ggg-golovkin-a-modern-day-tony-zale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52712","title":{"rendered":"Packy\u2019s World: Gennady \u201cGGG\u201d Golovkin a Modern Day Tony Zale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-996\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_996\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_996_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"4dd9d2985e\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"996\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who Wins?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-996-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2770\" name=\"poll_996\" value=\"2770\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2770\">Gennady \"GGG\" Golokvin<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2771\" name=\"poll_996\" value=\"2771\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2771\">Tony Zale<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(996);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(996); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-996-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52712\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52683 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PACKYS-WORLD-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"PACKYS-WORLD-500x300\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PACKYS-WORLD-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PACKYS-WORLD-500x300-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>By Packy \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Goldstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oy Vay, are you going to hear it today\u2026. BookFace, Shitter, and Stinked In! What are all these social media things about that \u201cBad\u201d Brad tells me he is going to put my column on? In my day, Alvin his dad, and I would meet poolside at the Eden Roc on Miami Beach to talk about what we got into the night before and all the happenings in Boxing. We didn\u2019t have computers, cell phones and the rest of this junk they use today. Well, I have to admit, I do have a cell phone because Sadie insists I do. But the rest of them, they can shove up their tuckus if you ask me. And what is with this finger Texting stuff? I see young men finger Texting while eating with hotties all over Miami Beach that I would love to get my fingers on and not a cell phone to finger Text.<\/p>\n<p>Oy Vay if my Sadie wouldn\u2019t kick me twice in the bagels if I tried. A guy can dream can\u2019t he? In my single days, they would be back up to my hotel room quicker than Frank Sinatra sang, \u201cI\u2019ve Got You Under My Skin\u201d! Frank owned Miami Beach back in those days and Alvin and I would see him many a night at the Fountainbleu Hotel where Al also worked.<!--more--> So onto the boxing stuff\u2026 I feel that Gennady \u201cGGG\u201d Golovkin is a modern day Tony Zale especially after his recent win over slick Willie Monroe, JR. I say this because \u201cGGG\u201d took punches on purpose to give the crowd excitement for their hard earned money. Tony was the same way. Just watch any of his fights especially with Rocky Graziano. Oh wait a second\u2026. Here is a great Alvin Berkwitt story for the RSR readers and it involves Rocky Graziano.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin knew him from Miami Beach and Rocky asked Al to drive with him in his new car from Miami Beach to New York City in the mid 1950\u2019s. Well, Alvin jumped at the chance to ride with his pal, but the funny thing Rocky didn\u2019t know, Al did not have a driver\u2019s license at that time. Shit, years later, when Al did get one, he was not much better of a driver with one!<\/p>\n<p>The stories I can and will tell about my dear friend are priceless. I truly miss him. Zale and \u201cGGG\u201d really care about their fans and it warms my heart to see it. In fact, had they fought, what a war it would have been.<\/p>\n<p>Any predictions folks in who you think would win? <em><strong>I am going to go with Zale, but in an all out war and him winning a 15 round split decision.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Packy \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Goldstein Oy Vay, are you going to hear it today\u2026. BookFace, Shitter, and Stinked In! What are all these social media things about that \u201cBad\u201d Brad tells me he is going to put my column on? In my day, Alvin his dad, and I would meet poolside at the Eden Roc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12809],"tags":[12820],"class_list":["post-52712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","category-packys-world","tag-packys-world-gennady-ggg-golovkin-a-modern-day-tony-zale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}