After retirement, boxers are in the 13th round

Two Coatesville, PA. Boxers face the injuries of mentally boxing. The former featherweight champion Ibf Calvin ‘Silky Smooth’ Grove and Jimmy Clark, the heavy goods vehicles formerly beaten, are both in nursing establishments suffering from dementia.

Grove is at the Phoenix Center in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and although his appearance is good since he is about forty pounds more, while his memory of his past career is zero. I was told that he could not go to the toilets alone in the fear that he is trying to leave the establishment without knowing where he was going, by former assistant trainer Claude Mangum.

In his first professional days, Grove was in the camp of coach John Transit and Deputy Coach Mangum in Potstown, Pennsylvania. Finally, Grove went to Texas under the Houston boxing promotions by Josephine Abercrombie.

Grove won the IBF featherweight championship in France, defeating the champion Antonio ‘Tonito’ Rivera, 17-4-1, from Puerto Rico by stop in four towers.

In the second defense of Grove, he went to Mexico against Jorge Paez, 25-2-1 from Mexico, with a record of 32-0 with Paez, winning a majority decision and winning the title of Grove.

Two fights later in their revenge match in Mexico, Grove was arrested in the eleventh round. In his next fight, he won the featherweight of the IBF USBA beating Anthony English, in Moscow, Russia. Two other victories and was arrested by Bernard ‘The BT Express’ Taylor, 40-2-2, in eleven rounds, while by majority decision, in New York.

Grove has won its next three fights before losing against club fighter Bryant Paden, 14-7-3, in eight towers at the legendary Blue Horizon in Philadelphia. Then he defeated Regillio Turur, 28-1-1, by shared decision winning the state of the United States in New York.

Then Grove lost against the world champion of the super feather of WBC Azumah ‘The Professor’ Nelson, 34-2-1, by decision in Nevada. He returned well winning his next five fights, notably the former IBF featherweight champion, Troy Dorsey, 12-6-4, on the blue horizon.

Grove in his next two fights has stopped the former world champion of 3 division Jeff Fenech, 26-1-1, in Australia. Again, “Down Under”, he beat the former Australian champion and Commonwealth Lester Ellis, 35-3, by shared decision. He also beat the continental champion of WBC, Pete Taliaferro, 24-1, by shared decision, at Mississippi.

Grove ended his career by going 2-5 arrested four times. First of all in a light title fight in the WBC world by Miguel Angel Gonzalez, 34-0. Then, by the intercontinental champion of the WBA Angel ‘El Diablo’ Manfredy, 12-2-1, the champion IBF Super Featherweight Arturo ‘Thunder’ Gatti, 27-1 and in his final fight for IBF and WBC Light Welterweight Champion Russia Born in Australia Kostya ‘Thunder from Down Under’ Tszyu, 19-1, by first round. He ended his career at 49-10, being arrested seven times. Why, especially late in his career, was it put with several Ibhof enthusiasts?

These seven judgments wreaked havoc ending in 1998. His memory disappeared his boxing career when I spoke with him.

The truck Jimmy Clark, in amateurs in 1975, lost against the future world champion Michael Dokes for the title AAU. In 1976, he lost against the future world champion John Tate in the Golden Gloves. In 1977, he defeated Igor Vysotsky of Russia in a double Russian-USA meeting competition. The same year in the semi-finals, he beat the future world champion Tony ‘Tnt’ Tubbs and the future world champion Greg Page for the national title Golden Gloves.

In 1978, he lost 3 times the Cuban Olympic gold medalist Teofilo Stevenson, once in Cuba and twice in the United States.

In Pro’s, Clark had a 18-1 file with 16 stops. He had 16-0 when he lost against Reggie Gross, 15-3, in nine laps in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His aunt that he was close to the death of two weeks before the fight and he refused to withdraw from the fight but mentally wore a heavy burden. After two victories, he ended with non-competition against Kimmuel Odum, 9-2, in 1989.

Clark said that coach Angelo Dundee was involved with him for several fights.

Clark is in the installation of Towne Manor East in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He mentioned many Philly fighters from the past, but half a dozen times, he asked if I knew Duke Dugent who led the 23rd boyfriend in Philadelphia. During our second meeting, I brought him a photo of Dogent, myself and the gypsy ‘of Philly, Joe Harris whom I was trying to reinstall after being discovered with the eyes. His face lit up when he saw Dogent.

The residents of Grove and Clark of the same city of Coatesville are both in the 13th round of their lives suffering from injuries due to boxing.