Jabbing with the Commish

Randy Gordon is our former boxing commissioner — and who knew we had a former boxing commissioner — or even a current one.

Randy: “At 10 my right side was burned badly in an explosion. Doctors said I’d never walk again. In a wheelchair for a year. My 10th birthday, my parents pushed me in front of our TV to watch the fights. In ’59, every Friday I’d watch them. I’d imitate the fighters by moving my legs. Six months later, I tried standing for the first time in a year.

“Boxing brought my life back. I went to journalism school, wrote about boxing, announcing it, put my five kids through college with those earnings. Eventually inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, back in 1989, Gov. Mario Cuomo made me commissioner of NY State Athletic Commission and that’s my who

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