By kiki
Paul Caruso, seen here with Art "Golden Boy" Aragon, once did some fixin' for us.
Having gone to Golden Gloves National in 1975 with the L.A. team, Frankie could not fight in the 1976 L.A tourney because of a broken ankle. We had figured that by the time Las Vegas held their tournament (Vegas had their tourney a few weeks after L.A.'s), Frankie's ankle would be healed, and he could fight there. So I called Bill Miller, L.V. tournament director, and told him I was taking Frankie to fight on the L.V tourney; he told me not to bother, that Frankie would not be allowed to fight because he had fought on the Olympic Auditorium's pro/am-cards against AAU rules. A few days later, I was in Aileen Eaton's office. I told her what Miller had said, she told me, "go see my attorney Paul Caruso, and he'll fix it for you with one phone call; tell him I sent you" Frankie and I went to see Caruso in his Beverly Hills office, when we were ushered into his office I said to him, "Aileen Eaton said to talk to you and that you could fix our problem with one phone call" He smiled and said "Aileen gives me too much credit" I then explain our situation to him "Las Vegas, huh?" he mutter, more to himself than us. He picked up the phone and dialed a number, and after a conversation that lasted less than three minutes, he hung up and told Frankie, "it's fixed; you're fighting in the Vegas Golden Gloves. I think the dude was connected!!
Frankie lost his first fight in the Vegas tourney. But that's not important; what does matter is that we got there.
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