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Posted on 03/25/2008 8:57:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
In the '40s and '50s, Aragon was known as the 'Golden Boy.' He entered the ring wearing gold robes and trunks, flattened opponents with his sharp left hook -- and then dated starlets.
Art Aragon, the charismatic "Golden Boy" boxer who steadily drew standing-room-only crowds at Los Angeles and Hollywood venues in the 1940s and '50s, died today at Northridge Hospital Medical Center after his family removed him from life support apparatus. He was 80...
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RIP.
Until then, RIP Art Aragon.
Aragon was a colorful guy in his day.He later played a role in an excellent,but little remembered film with Stacey Keach,”Fat City”,about the lower end of the boxing world in Stockton,California-it also had Curtis Cokes,former lightweight world champion.The location shooting was very good and it was a sahme it never got more notice.I have it on dvd.
Yep, I remember Fat City. Old man here, and wise too:)
Que hombre! Descanse en paz.
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