The night "Battling" Moish Moskowitz beat "Midget" Rosenberg at the old Ice Palace on Market Street, Moish viewed success as a simple equation; you didn't have to be smart or good looking, you just needed to know how to make people laugh or how to fight. That was in 1933. Forty-one years later life had gotten complicated. The reign of Jewish champions was over. Moish still spent every day in the gym training a group of fighters including Tyrone Braxton. There's a line between Blacks and Jews that is seldom successfully juggled and never crossed. For Moish, it was like that line didn't exist....
The night "Battling" Moish Moskowitz beat "Midget" Rosenberg at the old Ice Palace on Market Street, Moish viewed success as a simple equation; you di...