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Originally Posted by professordp
Damn this torpedo, and full speed ahead. And damned he was winning only twenty of his seventy-three pro fights! But to give a little credit, he was reported to have a pretty decent chin only failing to finish three times and counted out twice early in his eight year career. His other early departure was via TKO....In the last years of his career, he became pretty much wanderer, ultimately finding his way to the East Coast. In 1948, the Torpedo was launched in several New York venues, with one loss at Madison Square Garden and a loss to Lenny Mancini in Brooklyn's famed Braodway Arena.
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Here's a guy I meant to post a little note about quite a while ago. According to the New York Times, he was managed by Henry Armstrong (described once as Armstrong's "protege"). NYT mentions him as a Beau Jack sparring partner when Jack was preparing for a bout at the Garden in the first week of 1946 (just about the time Reed had his first eastern fights, so that's probably what brought him east).
It strikes me that if he was taken under Armstrong's wing and was paid to sharpen up a fighter like Beau Jack, then perhaps he was regarded as having some skills or at least potential beyond what actually shows on his record, which certainly does not make it easy to understand what anybody might have seen in him.
I also meant to say that was a very nice writeup on Johnny Caruso, by the way.