R.I.P.
Bobby Padilla
Bobby
Padilla, A junior boxing champion out of the Resurrection Gym has passed. Bobby
was, along with Tony Valle, Angel Soto, Art Frias, et al. one of the junior
boxing stars boxing under Jim Lopez wing in those early years of the Resurrection
Gym (mid-‘60s) Bobby was one of the guys we could always depend to be ready to
spar with my son Frankie on our weekend visits to the Resurrection Gym in those
early years. I hadn’t been in contact with Bobby in over forty years, but
thanks to Facebook we were able to reconnect last year. Soon after reconnecting
I invited Bobby to join us in a couple of Facebook boxing pages ‘Classic
American West-Coast Boxing’ and ‘Fight Group’ he joined gladly. He too joined
my music page ‘Music and Cigar Lounge’ at first Bobby was posting regularly on
all three pages, then as the month passed by due to his illness; he was posting
less and less. His last posts were on the first week of June, after that I was
fearing the bad news. Bobby I am sorry we never got together for breakfast at ‘Mike’s
Puck’ … Our new friendship was cut short as Bobby’s life journey came to an end
yesterday (6-22-14) due to throat cancer. R.I.P. Champ!
