But he’d also spent the last four or five years training fighters and promoting cards, quitting his job as a material handler at a yarn mill to do so. “I believe in God, and I’m not an overly religious person, but he’s got plans for everybody and I just came to the realization that it wasn’t in my cards. He was willing to enter the arena in Bay St. Louis one Tuesday night in 1993, but there was no way of knowing the world would change in such a way that the moment would be preserved in digitized amber.
While they all got what they call whoopings, they do not have theories as to why Brian, the second of the family’s six children, received their mother’s worst.
He took me out of it for some reason.”Whatever the reason was, Mosco went on to have success without getting punched in the face. Frankie Hines quit training and took a job running dye jets at a clothing mill. We sit at a small kitchen table under a whirring ceiling fan while two orange tabbies wander around our feet. Ten days later, at the casino in Bay St. Louis, Brian would weigh in at 177.After the first fight, Brian had just one question: When could he do it again?At the first fight, in Forest City, Brian got a thrill out of the night’s every turn: taping his hands, standing in the ring under the lights, the sight of 200 strangers in the seats hollering, all those eyes trained on him. All Rights Reserved. He doesn’t feel like a victim.
That boy will kill you. He developed a reputation as something of a gift-giver. A voiceover introduced Brian “The Mullet Man” Sutherland. He calls up One Tuesday night in 1993, Brian Sutherland stepped into a ring and lasted just 56 seconds. Trade lots and Toughman Contests were fertile grounds for prospects, to whom he promised free training; when they fought professionally, Hines would get his pay by taking a cut off the top.
He’s lying.” She says that Brian’s story about the door happened when she opened the door to a room he had run into while crying. Brian’s page listed his employer as Pep Boys. He said he’d love to.He chose to meet at his brother’s house because he says it’s more accommodating than his own. But the remoteness of Bay St. Louis, reachable to out-of-staters by a flight into New Orleans and then a puddle-jumper to Gulfport, made the prospect of wrangling an outside replacement dim and expensive. 42% “That’s a new one on me,” he says.
He got a replacement tooth on a retainer. He still fought.He says a stint at a military school for juvenile delinquents straightened him out: In six months he fought only once.
The dude is a class act, I was trying to find info on this dude a while back.
Most didn’t even know he had been boxing in the first place. He rose up to manager at the Pizza Hut.
About a year ago Steven found a “contact us” form on TruTV’s website. “If I’d have won on TV, then it would’ve been the small hometown boy making it to the top.
He stole lunch money, he remembers testifying at the juvenile court, because he had been sent to bed without dinner.
He couldn’t believe the size of the place.Twenty-two years later, he still shakes his head thinking about what happened the next day.
Brian Sutherland would give this guy a run for his money for the worst boxer ever.
Larry Holmes got his title shots, in 1995 and ‘97, but lost both by decision. He recently guest starred on NBC's Grimm and can be seen in commercials for Pepsi, Washington Lottery, The Deadliest Catch, and Taco Time. “If my dad would come home later than he should have, or—just anything.
“When you get filled up with anger, you don’t hurt until it’s over and done.”“He’s always looked for attention,” Steven tells me later.
Then they say, “Tony Mosco and Jimmy Smith, come up,” and it was him. So I’m in line, waiting for my name to be called and this guy is standing behind me and giving me dirty looks and staring me down. A local news channel caught wind and asked him for an interview, but he didn’t want the attention while working as an EMT. schedule.
Two or three days a week, he would finish his midday shift at 3 o’clock and hop over to Hines’s to join six or seven trainees on runs around Shelby or rounds against the heavy bag in Hines’s basement.
Find out more about cookies He had three more kids. Abdullah Muhammad trains out of a gym in Newark, while Beau Williford is still churning out hopefuls in Lafayette. There are no recorded weights for the fight, but Wofford’s typical fighting weight in that period was 214 pounds.
“They didn’t tell me nothin’ about that,” Hines says.
There is no response but a small dog’s yapping on the inside. Through his first three professional bouts, he was 2–1, splitting a pair of decisions and winning on a TKO.The fight against Sutherland in Mississippi would offer his biggest exposure yet—except Sutherland was never supposed to be his opponent.Former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes, recently coaxed out of a second retirement, headlined the card in Bay St. Louis and attracted the USA Network broadcast. There is no mullet—his hair is closely shorn, his face clean-shaven, his body stout. He lost interest in boxing. An accident clogged I-85. Less than a month later, he was slated to face Smith, and from the day of the weigh-in, he knew something was off with his opponent.“It was funny,” Mosco recalled. The classmate who impolitely described one of his sisters had his braces introduced to his lips and was left a bloody mess. pro boxer. She took a lot of anger out on [Brian], which we couldn’t do anything about. “I hurt ‘em, knocked ‘em out,” he says. There were still plenty of scraps around town. None of the other players from that night in Mississippi knew what had happened to him, or even who would. After a few months of training, in February 1993, Brian made his actual pro debut when Hines’s business partner, Billy Mitchem, brought him to a gym in tiny Forest City, N.C. His opponent was Danny Wofford, a heavyweight trainee of Mitchem’s whose career record was then 12–24–2.