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The previous year, Canizales had twice defended his title in France. “When the fight was pitched to me,” says Bones, “I was told that the venue was neutral, but when I got over there I saw people coming up to Canizales saying ‘how nice to see you again’ and I learned that one of the judges was from Texas.”
At this stage of his development he had no business being in the same ring with Canizales, the pride of Laredo, Texas, who was making the 12th defense of his title and would come to be regarded in many quarters as the top bantamweight of the modern era. But it was a soft 26-0-1, a record forged against no-name opponents in tank towns like Greenville, South Carolina, Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Eldorado, Illinois. Bones was living in Carmi when he turned pro.īones brought a 26-0-1 record into his Mabout with IBF world bantamweight champion Orlando Canizales at Evian les Bains, France. They then settled in the town of Carmi in southern Illinois (a little more than an hour’s drive from their ancestral home in Henderson) where Bones’ father, since deceased, ran pizza parlors. The Adams’ later moved to Detroit where they lived along 7 Mile Road, the grittiest corridor in the city. “No disrespect intended,” says Bones, “but the kids in the projects in the inner cities had it easy compared to us.” Working in the fields and honing his skills as a boxer – the gym was in Evansville, Indiana, 11 miles from Henderson – left little time for school. To help out his parents, Bones worked in the fields, picking soybeans, corn, and tobacco. Tobacco and coal, the prime economic movers in the growth of Henderson County, were in decline.įor a time, the family lived in Smith Mills, Kentucky, in a house without electricity and running water.
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He spent his formative years in Henderson, Kentucky, where his father was a truck driver until blood clots in his legs forced him to quit.
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The nickname was attached to him because someone said he was all skin and bones and he embraced it because he always hated the name Clarence.
The kid won a 4-round unanimous decision and several years later, at age 18, he would fight a future Hall of Famer for the bantamweight championship of the world.Ĭlarence Richard Adams Jr has been called Bones ever since he was a little boy.
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In the opposite corner was Simmie Black, a veteran of 158 fights.īlack was a professional loser of the stripe that has become virtually extinct in the United States, but he was 37 years old and had swapped punches with several top-shelf fighters, and here he was matched against a 15-year-old kid with no professional boxing experience whatsoever.
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Reportedly 176-4 as an amateur, Adams was 15 years old when he made his pro debut on Apin Memphis, Tennessee. Many viewers undoubtedly wondered if this painfully shy five-year-old kid would hit his peak as a golfer before he hit puberty.īones Adams wasn’t as cuddly cute as Tiger when he appeared on the show, his small hands encased in oversized boxing gloves, but, of course, he was a lot older. Tiger hadn’t even started kindergarten when his father brought him on the show to show off his acuity at hitting golf balls into a cup. Both appeared on the TV show “That’s Incredible.” The show, co-hosted by former NFL quarterback Fran Tarkenton, had a five-year run (1980-84) on ABC. PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY - Las Vegas boxing trainer Clarence “Bones” Adams (pictured working the mitts with Amir Khan) has something in common with Tiger Woods.
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