What’s that?
A Bonafide Devil-in-the-Details examination of how
early Mob Enforcers threw hands to hurt, drop, and leave ‘em dropped.
All culled from the historical sources.
It’s a wild mix of 1890s to 1930s club-fighters
moonlighting for certain ethnic mobs—re-vamping their wares for an environment
that has no referees, no rounds, no nothing but bare bones “Rock ‘em, sock ‘em
& drop ‘em!”
Street Dentist combos cover the specific footwork that
loads every single shot, the “Golden Bridge Body English” that would go on to
inform early penitentiary fighting of the teens to 1940s. This would evolve
into 52 Blocks, Jailhouse Rock and other prison fighting systems then take a
left-turn to influence Cus D’Amato’s peek-a-book system—and yet we can find it
even earlier in Geechee Gullah “knocking.” [Ah, Old School Combat stews, what’s
not to love?]
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Nexus
Let us turn our eye on the Boxing-Mob
connection.
The connection between old school boxers, old school
wrestlers of the legitimate sort and those who moonlighted a bit in both worlds
is vast and almost astonishing in its roster.
If we add those who never competed in the legitimate
game but were considered fearsome nevertheless by those who did play at top
levels in the sportive side of things, the roster quadruples.
The observations that follow from Joseph “Donnie
Brasco” Pistone are simply from one voice in the know.
We could easily add hundreds more like observations
from the historical record of folks saying gangsters, mobsters, wiseguys, hard
bastards, hooligans and thugs knew what they were doing, and, in most cases,
knew more than the sport-saturated will ever know.
[Mr. Pistone’s observation is echoed in testimony from
the 1750’s forward on both sides of the pond—never forget Ronnie & Reggie
Kray were just two notable examples of folks who took what they learned in the
ring and upped it outside the game. The following holds for boxing and wrestling;
scufflers from The Barbary Coast to The Five Points put their skills to less
than savory use. Gerald Kersh’s 1938 novel, Night and the City,
although ostensibly about corruption in the wrestling game, also had a knowing
eye on “performers who moonlighted.”]
I turn it over to Joseph D. Pistone, a man who went
deep undercover with the Mob. A brave man who knows of what he speaks.
“When you grow up on the streets, you get into a
lot of street fights. No way around it, plain and simple. That’s why a lot of
your champion boxers grew up on the streets. In Paterson, New Jersey, I got
into situations all the time where the only way out was with my fists. The
first time you punch someone in the face, you are almost shocked by the
violence of it, the blood, the crunching sound, the breaking bones. After that,
it’s a piece of cake. I punched a lot of people in my day, almost always in situations
where it was punch or be punched.
“One thing I knew not to do was go looking
for a street fight. Why provoke a fight when the guy might have a knife or a
gun? If, however, you sense that a fight is inevitable, you must make sure you
get in the first punch. Once I started hanging out with wiseguys, though, I was
surprised at how they went around almost eager to mix it up. They knew they had
a tremendous advantage over almost everyone who crossed their paths: an utter
fearlessness about fighting. Wiseguys do everything with their fists: fighting
is a way to negotiate, send a message, settle a debt, even have a little fun on
a slow night. I saw wiseguys beat up waiters, shopkeepers, cab drivers, you
name it. And I never saw a wiseguy lose a fight. If you ever have the
misfortune to be punched by a wiseguy, you will not soon forget it. I got
punched by wiseguys a couple of times. They punch pretty good.”
Mr. Pistone goes on to say that the fights are not of
the bar-room dust-up poseur, throw a few “Are we done here?” variety.
Here he refers to the intensity and the “educated” use of force.
“I have seen wiseguys beat the bloody hell
out of people. It takes a while to do,…but if you know where and how to punch a
guy, believe me, you can kill him.”
He is just one of many insiders who refer to
Street-Dentistry as being a different animal than boxing. What looks like
standard punching or boxing correlates, is often just that, something
that looks like it. Often the resemblance ends there.
There is also the frequency of actual use of the skill
set which further hones tactics and strategy. An increased exposure to
tool-honing opportunity that recalls the fight records of the 1920’s “in the
know” fighter.
Mr. Pistone on frequency and provocation.
“Hell, people have been savagely beaten for
accidentally bumping into wiseguys.
“So, if you get into some kind of altercation with
someone who looks like a wiseguy, walk away. No, run away. Wiseguys love
getting into fights, and they never lose.”
To conclude, I repeat, actual street arsenals may
resemble their sporting corelates, but the historical and tactical record
reveals that similarities end at appearances. Those who assume otherwise may
make a deadly mistake.
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