Posted on 04/28/2015 9:37:24 AM PDT by EveningStar
West Jordan • Many professional boxers have colorful and jarring nicknames designed to instill fear in opponents, capture the imagination of the general public and perhaps bring some extra publicity and headlines.
But when it came to having a trademark moniker, Utah's Gene Fullmer wasn't like many of his counterparts. In a 2009 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Fullmer said he just preferred to be called by the name his parents, Tuff and Mary Fullmer, gave him when he was born in 1931.
The former world middleweight boxing champion died late Monday night at a care center near his home in West Jordan. He was 83.
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Rest in Peace; I will read up. Interesting, from Utah.
RIP.
Met him at his gym when I was a kid. Really nice guy.
His brother Jay passed away within this last week.
He was a heavyweight in a middleweight body.
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