Chuck Zito
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748 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 29 Mar
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Oh, absolutely.
My father was a great fighter back in the day in the 30s and the 40s. Years ago, guys had hundreds of fights. My father had 228 fights. back in the day in a 12-year career. And won most of them. He won a lot of them, absolutely. He lost 20. But he used to get paid $10 a fight. Now today, they're making $400 million in one fight.
Yeah, James Braddock, yeah. There's great fighters like Floyd Mayweather. He's 50 and old, but he's fighting like 28 years. There's a guy named Harry Greb back in the day. Floyd went 50-0 in 28 years. Harry Greb went 52-0 in one year.
So it's a big difference.
Yes, of course. Growing up with my dad and his... You know, I was living in the Bronx on Barretto Street and Hunts Point at the time. And it's even in my documentary. I was five years old and this guy Butch, like from the Little Rascals, used to beat me up every day. So I went crying home to my dad one time. He said, don't ever come crying home to me.
He's going to teach you how to defend yourself. So he pulled out his trunk and he had all his, you know, his gloves and his robe and his headgear and everything in there. And he put the gloves on me. You know, the gloves went up to my elbows. And he got on his knees and started teaching me how to box.
Yeah. So.
And the respect.
I've, I've trained eight different styles of martial arts. I first, after seeing Bruce Lee and the Green Hornet, I said, I want to be like Bruce. So I went down to Aaron Banks karate studio in New York city and started taking a white crane and tiger claw Kung Fu with Mr. Chin.
Every time I saw someone like Steve Reeves, I think the greatest body, I saw him in Hercules, Hercules Unchained. I said, I want to look like Steve.
Superman. Mighty Mouse.
Yes.
All right.
I was boxing for a long time. Uh, after seeing Bruce Lee, of course, like I said, I started taking martial arts and I've trained eight different styles of martial arts. I went from, uh, uh, white crane and tight claw Kung Fu to, uh, Chiquita Jiu Jitsu, Kamiti Ryu Jiu Jitsu, BNS Jitsu.
I never heard of that. And I trained with, uh, uh, Enzo Gracie in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. So.
Well, you know, I also did Japanese jiu-jitsu, which is a form of everything, you know, ground, grappling, boxing, everything. But Brazilian jiu-jitsu, let's face it, the ones who brought it to the octagon, you know, the Gracies, you know, they first brought it here before, you know, Fatidis bought the UFC and Dan White became president.
So it was guys like John Milius, the director, he designed the octagon. And a guy named Mark Davey who had the tough man contest back in the day. So it was those three, the Gracies and Art Davey and John Milius started the UFC.
So he asked me how long would it take you to knock me out. I said, it'd be over by now. It already would have happened. Yeah, yeah.
I was just, uh, you know, it was, we, we got along real well. And we were, uh, I was his bodyguard in 1992. And, uh, we went our separate ways and I didn't see him till six years later. And he came in with Mickey rock and like five guys and, and scores. I was having dinner. I'm familiar with scores.
That was back in the day. So we had a little argument and, uh, You know, I felt bad because I got so much publicity from somebody else's misfortune.
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