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HOW IT ALL STARTED WITH JOE G BRADLEY IN HIS BOXING HISTORY.

PHOTOS ARE OF : MY FIRST BOXING MENTOR, BABE GRIFFIN, (inducted into the world boxing hall of fame in 1990) AND ALSO BABE GRIFFIN AND BOBBY CHACON.

My involvement in boxing started when I was 13 years old collecting every boxing magazine and boxing film (super 8) I could get my hands on. I accumulated so many magazines and films on boxing that I had to have a special room to store them. I studied these boxing films and magazines over and over and over and over again.

I was self- taught in the beginning on my boxing. Self-taught in the sense that I watched dozens and dozens and dozens of every fight film I could get my hands on. I read every boxing magazine for-sale during that time and stored everything I read and 

watched in my young mind. Keep in mind as I grew older I had the opportunity to work with many first class professional and amateur trainers and all that knowledge I absorbed and stored for the benefit of some of the fighters that I worked with as the years went by. Please also note many of the professionals I managed or co-managed had specific trainers that worked with them and I only trained a select few.

I would hold regular boxing matches on my father's business property. It fascinated me that most of the rough and tough street fighter kids that came to challenge me (This was during my 13 thru 16 year old years of age timeframe ), were bigger and stronger and older than me, but I was able to out box them.

At age 16 a policeman came on to our own business property and told me that I needed a license to hold boxing matches. But the officer was wrong as I would have only needed a license if I was charging admission, as it was only my friends coming over for regular Saturday boxing with me as the main attraction with no fee charged. Let me add when I was very young, my friends called me “G”, or “The General”, but that is another story

So this policeman sent me on a quest at age 16 to know how to get a professional boxing promoters license. I traveled to several towns at this young age, to professional boxing matches and always tried to get with the promoters. Not one would talk to a young baby faced 16 year old wanting to know how to promote professional boxing.

But things changed when I traveled to San Carlos, California to a boxing match put on by Babe Griffin. He explained everything to me and listened to me and answered my questions. So I was told I needed to be 18 years of age to get the promoters license. I spent the next two years studying everything I could about boxing promotions, attending matches, (yes at my young age) looking at seating, and looking at order of matches and so much more.

When I turned 18 years old I applied for a promoters license and the license was granted and it went out on the United Press International (UPI) wire services that Joe Bradley was the granted a professional boxing license and was the youngest professional boxing promoter in the state of California. Many years of matches followed after that. It was Babe Griffin that was my first mentor that first helped me. His data is below:

Name: Babe Griffin

Birth Name: Victor A. Galiotto

Born: 1908-00-00

Hometown: San Jose, California, USA

Birthplace: Santa Clara County , California, USA

Died: 1996-07-18 (Age:88)

Babe Griffin promoted boxing shows in San Carlos,Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento, California over six decades including many of Bobby Chacon's bouts in his rise to fame.

Babe Griffin and Bobby Chacon March 15, 1983

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) _ Babe Griffin, a boxer and fight promoter who was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, is dead at the age of 88.

Griffin died Thursday of an apparent heart attack in a Los Gatos convalescent home

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