[Burt Brooks]

I was born severely disabled. Then at the age of 18 I tried to do a good deed and as a result a miracle occured, curing my disability
immediately...I was proficient in TWO sports...Who am I. ?

 

[doug.ie]

there was a boxer who was disabled in some way that fought on the undercard of a muhammad ali defence in europe....sweden?..switzerland??......but i doubt its him,as i dont think he was cured.

 

[john garfield]

I was born severely disabled. Then at the age of 18 I tried to do a good deed and as a result a miracle occured, curing my disability
immediately...I was proficient in TWO sports...Who am I. ?

King Levinsky, B?

 

[Burt Brooks]

King Levinsky, B?

No. not the kingfish...

 

[doug.ie]

got a feeling i should know this....but i am guessing this is the wrong period...i have a book here on kirkland laign (who beat roberto duran) called 'the gifted one' and it reminds me that he had feet problem as a child, one pointed a different way from the other, but he went on to become a long distance runner and a boxer.
thats my best shot burt.

 

[doug.ie]

i'm reading through the book here, and sods law, i can't find reference to it

 

[Guest]

Paul Berlenbach

 

[Burt Brooks]

got a feeling i should know this....but i am guessing this is the wrong period...i have a book here on kirkland laign (who beat roberto duran) called 'the gifted one' and it reminds me that he had feet problem as a child, one pointed a different way from the other, but he went on to become a long distance runner and a boxer.
thats my best shot burt.

No d, you shot a blank. My miracle fighter proved no "good" deed goes unrewarded...

 

[doug.ie]

ah...ya can't win 'em all...

just to show i haven't gone mad about what i was thinking...here's laing talking about his disability he had as a child..

5 mins in here..

 

[doug.ie]

King Levinsky, B?

JG....look at this for a crowd the night he fought joe louis..

 

[Meast]

JG....look at this for a crowd the night he fought joe louis..

Wow.....that's insane

 

[doug.ie]

@Meast...and this is from when king levinsky fought jack dempsey.....he was in some big fights eh ?...

 

[doug.ie]

sorry burt for taking your thread off route there

 

[Burt Brooks]

Paul Berlenbach

Yes of COURSE B ! Thanks for letting me go into the middle rounds...Paul Berlenbach, was born a DEAF MUTE, and remained mute until the age of
eighteen...Then a miraculous event occured...While working at a disability camp for chldren , the 18 year old Berlenbach tried to recover
a boy's kite stuck at the top of the tree's branches...Climbing a pole Berlenbach released the kite from the branches but touched a live electrical wire
and was "electrocuted", and fell unconscious to the ground...Medics were called and worked on Berlenbach frantically and he was revived...
To his amazement his hearing was RESTORED to normal and the 18 year old Berlenbach after a long treatment developed normal speech...
He then became a wrestler, then switched to boxing becoming a LH champion in a "golden age " of great lightheavyweights all due to a
"miracle" performing a good deed...Good show B !

 

[Chatty]

Yes of COURSE B ! Thanks for letting me go into the middle rounds...Paul Berlenbach, was born a DEAF MUTE, and remained mute until the age of
eighteen...Then a miraculous event occured...While working at a disability camp for chldren , the 18 year old Berlenbach tried to recover
a boy's kite stuck at the top of the tree's branches...Climbing a pole Berlenbach released the kite from the branches but touched a live electrical wire
and was "electrocuted", and fell unconscious to the ground...Medics were called and worked on Berlenbach frantically and he was revived...
To his amazement his hearing was RESTORED to normal and the 18 year old Berlenbach after a long treatment developed normal speech...
He then became a wrestler, then switched to boxing becoming a LH champion in a "golden age " of great lightheavyweights all due to a
"miracle" performing a good deed...Good show B !

Interesting story, i think I've heard about it before. I was tempted to ask if if was a deaf person who got his gearing back but I would never have got who it was. Must have read it in a boxing book at some point.