Lawrence O’Donnell thinks that he is a tough guy. He calls out Tagg Romney, “When I hear you talk about taking a swing and taking punches, why do I get the feeling you have never actually taken a punch, or thrown a punch. I didn’t have that luxury in the part of Boston I grew up in.”
Wow, O’Donnell, you’re quite a tough guy. Just because you grew up in the slums of Boston doesn’t make you a fighter. You are not a city. You are squeamish announcer, an entertainer.
I was a rich kid like Tagget too. I grew up in Great Neck. I was tough, not the town. I punched out enough kids even though I was spoiled.
Later I became a prize fighter. At that time I was a millionaire in business. You seem to think that money makes you weak. I don’t know, Tyson was a multimillionaire when he was knocking out his opponents.
At the age of 44 and 45 I knocked out four out of six professional opponents. I was knocked out twice. Have you, O’Donnell, ever been knocked out?
I also had almost ten amateur fights and sixty white collar fights. The guys, particularly the pros, I beat up were real fighters. They didn’t brag about where they came from but showed their toughness with their fists.
I hung out in Gleason’s Gym with guys like Arturo Gatti, Buddy McGirt, Iran Barkley, Reynaldo Snipes, Reggie Tuur and Kevin Kelly. We were polite to each other. We didn’t call out civilized people like Tagg and start fights with him. We saved our real fighting for the ring where we’d come out with broken noses and skewed brains.
I find it hard to believe that you are a mushy rich guy on television yet try to act out like a street thug. You are a bully. You don’t belong on television. You are like Keith Olbermann, Chris Mathews and the other crybabies on MSNBC. Before you boast that you are a man prove that you are one. Let me see your curriculum vitae. How many professional fights have you won? How many times has your nose been broken? Or more aptly, how many children did you bully when you were in high school?
David Lawrence
