By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “I want to be remembered just like you remember Roberto Duran or Jake LaMotta.” As told to "Bad" Brad Berkwitt in his boxing book, Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime Born in Silver Spring Maryland, William Joppy 40-7-2, 30 KOs, was a man of his time. As we, in t
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart I can remember thinking on the ring walk that I had dreamed about this since I was eight years old. My father had passed away back in 1982 and he was a big part of my boxing career, so his spirit was there.” Paul Vaden, reflecting on the night he won a world title, As
By KG Farrell Part one: How it began. I looked anxiously at my front door. It was 3 o’clock in the afternoon and someone I wasn’t expecting was ringing the bell. I hesitated, wondering if I should answer it, I don’t like surprises. I decided it might be the pharmacy with a delivery, so I opened the
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart “I think some fighters choose only to learn from their defeats, but even in victory there’s always something to learn, something to improve upon.” Hercules Kyvelos, Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime “Bad” Brad Berkwitt, pp 215 The tentacles of the British Empire are many
By Seth H. Bramson Over the past several years I have noted, to family friends and when giving my talks (I give 15 different talks on South Florida local and Florida transportation history, seven of which are my “adult show and tell” talks to which I bring the memorabilia related to that discussion)