Billy Conn World Light Heavyweight Champion 1939

	"I found out they paid you to fight and I liked to fight when I was a kid. I just went to the gymnasium and asked for a tryout. That's all you fight for is money. I never boxed as an amateur. I got two and a half dollars the first time. I got beat. I was sixteen years old. Dick Woodwer in Fairmont, West Virginia, about sixty-five miles south of Pittsburgh. Everybody was busted around there. Nobody had any money. I didn't want to work, see, and I found that this was a better thing than working, fighting. I figured that if you practiced and became good, why, you had a chance. I didn't know how to fight. I was just learning how to fight. It was like going to school, learning how to box. It took a little time. You have to go and learn every day. Experience is the greatest teacher. I tried to be a real good fighter. I didn't want to be a bum. I wanted to be a real top-notcher.
	Billy Conn-Peter Heller's "In This Corner...!"