After retiring the boxers are in the 13th round

Dos Coatesville, Pa. Boxers are dealing with mentally boxing injuries. The former Fii weight champion, Calvin ‘Silky Smooth’ Grove and the heavyweight, once Benado, Jimmy Clark, are in nursing centers that suffer from dementia.

Grove is at the Phoenix Center in Phoenixville, PA, and although his appearance is good considering that he is approximately forty pounds, while his memory of his last career is zero. They told me that he cannot go to a bathroom just for fear that he would seek to leave the facilities without knowing where he was going, according to former assistant coach Claude Mangum.

In his early professional days, Grove was in the camp of coach John Traitz and the assistant coach Mangum in Pottstown, pa. Finally, Grove moved to Texas under the promotions of Houston boxing by Josephine Abercombie.

Grove won the FIB Pen Weight Championship in France defeating champion Antonio ‘Tonito’ Rivera, 17-4-1, from Puerto Rico by unemployment in four rounds.

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

Two fights later in his rematch again in Mexico, Grove was arrested in the eleventh round. In his next fight, he won the FIB USBA Super Feather Title, defeating Anthony English, in Moscow, Russia. Two more victories and was arrested by Bernard ‘The BT Express’ Taylor, 40-2-2, in eleven rounds, while he was for the majority decision, in New York.

Grove won his next three fights before losing to the Fighter of the Bryant Paden club, 14-7-3, in eight rounds in the legendary blue horizon in Philadelphia. Then, he defeated Regillio Tur, 28-1-1, for a divided decision winning the title of the New York state of the USA.

Then, Grove lost to the world champion of the Super Feath of the WBC Azumah ‘The Professor’ Nelson, 34-2-1, by decision in Nevada. He returned well winning his next five fights, including former FIB weight champion, Troy Dorsy, 12-6-4, in Blue Horizon.

Grove in his next two fights arrested former world champion of 3 Division Jeff Fenech, 26-1-1, in Australia. Again ‘Down Under’ defeated former Australia champion and Commonwealth, Lester Ellis, 35-3, by divided decision. In addition, he defeated the continental champion of the WBC Pete Taliaferro, 24-1, by divided decision, in Mississippi.

Grove finished his career with 2-5 stops four times. First in a fight for the global lightweight title of the WBC by Miguel Angel González, 34-0. Then, by the intercontinental champion of the AMB, Angel ‘El Diablo’ Manfredy, 12-2-1, super pen champion of the FIB, Arturo ‘Thunder’ Gatti, 27-1 and in his last fight to IBF and the Welter weight champion of the Russian WBB born in Australia Kostya ‘Thunder of Down Under’ Tszyu, 19-1 First round. He finished his career in 49-10, being arrested seven times. Why, especially at the end of his career, did he put several IBHOF induced?

Those seven births made their final price in 1998. His memory was his career in the previous boxing when I talked to him.

The heavyweight Jimmy Clark, in fans in 1975, lost to the future world champion Michael Dokes for the title of Aau. In 1976 he lost to the future world champion John Tate in the Golden Gloves. In 1977 he defeated Igor Vysotsky in Russia in a Russian double meeting in the United States. That same year in the semifinal defeated Future World Champion Tony ‘TNT’ Tubbs and the future world champion Greg Page for the national title of Golden Gloves.

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

In Pro Clark he had an 18-1 record with 16 strikes. He was 16-0 at the time he lost to Reggie Gross, 15-3, in nine rounds in Scranton, pa. His aunt who was close died two weeks before the fight and refused to get out of the fight, but mentally carried a heavy load. After two victories, he ended with a non-contest against Kimmuel Odum, 9-2, in 1989.

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

Clark is in the installation of Towne Manor East in Norristown, Pa. He mentioned numerous fighters of Philadelphia of the past, but half a dozen times he asked me if I knew Duke Dugent, who directed the 23rd friend in Philadelphia. In our second meeting I brought a photo of Dugent, ‘Gypsy’ by Philly, Joe Harris, whom he was trying to reinstall after being discovered with a blind eye. His face illuminated when he saw Dugent.

The residents of Grove and Clark from the same city of Coatesville are in the 13th round of their lives that suffer wounds due to boxing.