– Freddie Welsh describing the moment he took his first paid fight.
"It was cold and snowy, and I walked all day and couldn't get a job or a meal. So that night I was standing there at the lunch counter when my friends came in again. "Billy Elmer will give you five dollars to fight tonight," they said. I was too hungry to stand it any longer. Five dollars meant a thick steak and some browned potatoes and a piece of pie and a cup of real coffee. I stood there and thought with my mouth watering. And then I went upstairs and I won my fight."
– Freddie Welsh describing the moment he took his first paid fight.
– Freddie Welsh describing the moment he took his first paid fight.
