"There's no question about it, I was definitely able to channel a lot of my anger as a youth into boxing."

He broke into professional boxing in 1940 at the age of 18.

"All this pressure that's inside me goes into boxing," he said.

Few men come into boxing with any long-term support system.

Thompson tells the story for laughs, but he did not get into boxing to be funny.

But I was into boxing pretty heavily as well.

I was never into boxing, but Ron, he always wanted to be fighting something.

The Federal investigation into boxing has been going on for several months.

What took him so long to get back into boxing?

James worked for a while as a boilermaker before going into boxing.