Gaspar van Wittel

This chapter describes the other women in Gaspar Ortega's life. His wife Ida learned that Gaspar had begat another child, and even worse, that his parents and siblings had known ab...

This chapter describes Gaspar's encounter with the hidden side of the world of professional boxing in October 1958. On the day of his fight with Don “Geronimo” Jordan, Gaspar was v...

This chapter details events following Gaspar's arrival in New York. In the summer of 1954, Nick Corby gave Gaspar a one-way Greyhound bus ticket and five dollars and told him they ...

This chapter details Gaspar's first televised Monday Night Fight. His opponent was a man named Hardy “Bazooka” Smallwood. Like Gaspar, Smallwood was familiar with long, hard roads....

This chapter first describes the physical toll boxing took on boxers such as Gaspar Ortega and Emile Griffith. Research shows that boxers suffer disproportionally from neurological...

This introductory chapter details the rise of Gaspar “Indio” Ortega. Gaspar Ortega grew up poor and fought his way out of the dusty streets of Colonia Morelos, Tijuana, traveling f...