“I’m just getting back from seeing my wife in the nursing home.
We’ve been together since 1952.
She’s been there 8 years but I tell her two days. She says it feels longer.”
“Can I take your picture?”
“If I wasn’t so good lookn I might not let you.
I coached Jo Hipp in the 1995 wrestling competition against Mike Tyson.
Tell them that. Would have been great, the next fight was for $10 million.
But you gotta win.”
And he did coach Joe Hipp. Hipp began his professional career in 1987, at age 25.
He went on to become the first boxer of Native-American ancestry
to compete for a version of the heavyweight championship.
Dosen’t say anything about Pete, though. Maybe he was assistant coach.