By kiki
Art "Golden Boy" Aragon played the bad guy with the Mexican fans with much success. He would go on TV/radio and say he wasn't Mexican-American; he would say he was Italian or Spanish. The Mexican fans would pack the Olympic Auditorium to the rafters (10,400 fans) to see him get his ass kicked. They would boo him as he would enter the ring and all during the fight. They would boo the loudest when his hand was raised after KOing one of their heroes. Before leaving the ring, he would parade around the square circle, thumbing his nose at the booing crowd. A "hot" beer would sometimes be thrown at him.
But he knew what he was doing all the time, he knew they would be back and pack the arena for his next fight, hoping to see him get his ass kicked, and since he fought on a percentage of the gate, he needed those pissed off Mexicans to come to his fights. He loved to say they could boo him all they wanted as long as they bought a ticket and that he would cry to the bank the day after the fight….The loudest I heard him being booed was when he fought Lauro Salas. Art and Salas fought at the Olympic after getting into a bar fight because Art called Salas a "fucking Mexican" I Surely miss those days!!
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