HNT #32 - Angelo Dundee & Me!

I don't know if I was psychic in shaving my beard down to a "biker
'stache" a la Orange County Choppers (TV) fame. But do I look more like a boxing enthusiast this way, or what?

And it's only appropriate -- that's Angelo Dundee, world-famous trainer of Muhammad Ali at Angelo's 5th Street Gym in Philadelphia, PA. I had forgotten how MANY other Champion boxers he trained, to mention only Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman for now. (What MORE do you want?) OK, MANY more & he's now training Hector "Macho" Camacho on Camacho's current "comeback" in Texas! Macho won his July fight and is looking very good.

Angelo looks pretty good, too, but I was wilted when my favorite female bartender at WingHouse asked if he was about MY age -- say WHAT!!?? [God, I gotta lose more weight!] Since we were AT WingHouse where he & an agent had a whole display table of souvenirs (8 x 10 glossy pics of Muhammad and Angelo w/ hair, autographed red Everlast gloves, and autographed REAL Boxer shorts), my bartender babe had first-hand view of us both!

Andrea may have been fooled by my exhilaration at Angelo's telling me HE was an "Air Corps" vet and how we were immediately bonded as "brother Air Force vets." He signed his autograph "From one AF vet to another~Angelo" (459th Special Services Sq -- he clearly remembered his V-E Day unit)! I guess younger girl-people don't know Air Corps means WW2 (not Korea, Vietnam or later). Since he's shaved his head, he probably DOES look younger than his 85 years!!! And he IS in great shape! But Dear Readers, tell me in your Comments, don't I look younger now without my beard? How MUCH younger than I USED to? C'mon, lemme know!

OK, Andrea, my bar tab is going to be much lower as I make my diet much stricter so that I'll look 30 years younger than Angelo on his next visit! {And I still love you, BUT...Gimme a Break!} LOL