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In reply to the discussion: Trump's Ring Walk [View all]H2O Man
(73,537 posts)I never liked the fellow I describe at the end of the essay. Though I rarely went in bars, even in my wilder times, I knew that he was a cowardly bully who did cheap attacks from behind on defenseless victims in bars. What was funny to my brothers and I was that he was supposed to fight a guy who was knocked out in the first round of every fight -- he was there only for the money (even amateurs got paid "expense" money in those days, with the winner having twice the expenses of the loser!). He never got hurt. Just laid down and feigned being out cold, until it was safe to head back to the dressing room and finish his bottle of Thunder Bird wine. Yikes!
The next year, he signed up for the regional Golden Gloves. He was supposed to fight one of my heavyweights, but chickened out even before he was supposed to go get ready. He had some of the same flaws that defined his character as does Trump.