Southern California boxing guru Bennie Georgino, 95, died Tuesday. The Italian-American was born and raised in Lincoln Heights, a small neighborhood in East L.A. and was a crusader for the sport of boxing since the 1930s as a boxer, trainer and manager of several world champions. Georgino's first steps were as an amateur boxer during the Depression.
He participated in fight cards at the historic Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. It was in that boxing palace that he gained a foothold first locally, and then slowly he became a force internationally. He once owned a deli two blocks from the Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles and one block from the now-defunct Herald-Examiner newspaper.
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