William 'Blinky' Rodriguez
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You don't even wipe the sweat off your hands.
That's it.
I wanted to just add, Benny mentioned his sister.
Well, where we're cousins, I was married to Lily.
Lily was my wife, and she passed away, but she was a trailblazer for women.
Boxing and kickboxing, won titles in both.
Fought Madison Square Garden in 1978, you know, also.
And just paying homage, you know, because she also pioneered and was taking the forefront, you know, fighting at the Olympics, fighting at the Forum, fighting in Japan, traveled the world and fought and represented well and trained hard, you know what I'm saying?
So, yeah.
So the night Bobby Chacon, if you remember that name at all.
Bobby Chacon, sure.
Okay, Bobby Chacon and Alexis Arguello, we fought on their card, both of us.
First husband and wife to fight on a boxing card like that.
Wow.
Under that right there.
Wow.
And I grew up with Bobby.
We grew up with Bobby.
He came out of the San Fernando Valley.
Little featherweight.