By kiki
In the mid-1970s, some Los Angeles open-class amateur fighters of note, who, for one reason or another, were unable to partake in the Los Angeles Golden Gloves tournament, went to Las Vegas to fight in their Golden Gloves tourney. Among the top L.A. amateurs that I can remember at this late date were Herman Montes and Frankie Baltazar.
There were others of lesser note: One was Robert Windsor. Robert was mentally challenged. Thus, he wasn't allowed to box in California state-sanction amateur bouts. Las Vegas could care less. Well, our open-class fighters of note were quickly eliminated. Of all the L.A. fighters, Robert Windsor was the only one to make it to the finals. Robert lost by decision, but he gave a good account of himself -Jake Horn and Louie Jauregui were Mando Muniz's first managers, and around 1973 they booked Mando to fight Manny Gonzales in Tucson, AZ.
So along with Mando, Jake, Louie, Johnny Cabera, and a host of amateur fighters, Robert Windsor being one of them, we drove to Tucson in Mando's van and Jake's car.
Mando had a tough fight, but he won. Now we were heading back home on I-8; Robert was riding with Jake, and during a pit stop in Yuma, Robert said that he wasn't going to ride with Jake anymore because Jake drove too fast, "Jake is crazy," said Robert, "hell, I was only doing 100 miles per hour" retorted Jake, and he was. Jake couldn't get nobody to ride shotgun with him.
