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[PCIntern]

51. Wow! You boxed?

I’m very impressed. I have had a fair number of the famous Philly boxers as patients over the years: amazing stories from them. I know it’s horriftingly primitive but it “gets you” on a deep level.

My dad and I used to watch the Friday night fights together and I used to vicariously enjoy the action since I was a really small kid with little upper body strength and pencil arms. I considered myself a student of the sport into and beyond my college years but stopped watching all classes during the Tyson era for whatever reason.

I remember going to see the great film Rocky here in Philly when it was first out and my friends with whom I went didn’t understand why I was laughing at the fight scenes, which were great theatrics but “unrealistic” does not begin to describe the outcome after even one of those combinations that Apollo Creed landed in the first round.

As an aside, I happened to be sitting next to Phillys most famous pitchman, Gene Crane, in a restaurNt when he accepted the role as Philly’s mayor for Rocky III. It was at The dearly departed Arthur’s Steak House on Walnut Street.