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    Are Italian mobsters great Street fighters?

    Watching gangster films they seem unbeatable with their fists but many times they seem pretty old and fat. Too many cabonaras over the years.

    I understand they are dangerous guys but are they really great Street fighters like that?
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    They'd clean out a pub full of English hooligans with no problem.

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      #3
      Once upon a time there were some. Most of them wouldn't fight you one-on-one though. You're either getting jumped by ten of them, or they are using a weapon; baseball bat, gun, pipe, etc. A majority of the ones I grew up around were poozies unless they were in a group. The last of the tough ones were already in their 40's by the time the 80's rolled around.

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        There is a scene in Bronx Tale when bunch of bikers get smashed by out of shape mobsters in the bar. That one is not believable.

        Thomas Pitera aka Tommy Karate from the Bonanno crime family was known to throw hands and was a straight lunatic.

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          Originally posted by FinitoxDinamita View Post
          There is a scene in Bronx Tale when bunch of bikers get smashed by out of shape mobsters in the bar. That one is not believable.

          Thomas Pitera aka Tommy Karate from the Bonanno crime family was known to throw hands and was a straight lunatic.
          That one I've seen. Also the guy Joe pesci played in casino could ko any man with a single punch until he became an alcoholic.

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            Originally posted by Earl-Hickey View Post

            That one I've seen. Also the guy Joe pesci played in casino could ko any man with a single punch until he became an alcoholic.
            Remember this hitman in Casino? Real mobster from The hole in wall gang, Frank Cullota played the role after being dissatisfied with the original actor. He was hired as an advisor for the film and ended up punking Pesci on the set for making wise ass joke about him being a rat lol.

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              #7
              Genovese boss Chin Gigante was a boxer and looking at his big ass fists, he probably cracked some heads.
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                Originally posted by FinitoxDinamita View Post
                Genovese boss Chin Gigante was a boxer and looking at his big ass fists, he probably cracked some heads.
                My absolute favorite. Dude could be a dunce, had a recorded IQ of like 70... But was imo one of the very smartest. Ran things invisably, and when he left this earth, unlike so many who wound up with nothing because of RICO, The Chin had a brownstone in NYC. You could sell 50 of Castellono's Staten Island Mansions and not buy that townhouse... Chin managed to fool the feds for years...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by GhostofDempsey View Post
                  Once upon a time there were some. Most of them wouldn't fight you one-on-one though. You're either getting jumped by ten of them, or they are using a weapon; baseball bat, gun, pipe, etc. A majority of the ones I grew up around were poozies unless they were in a group. The last of the tough ones were already in their 40's by the time the 80's rolled around.
                  Lol, remember the blackjacks? and 007's? Someguys in my hood would take a billiard ball and put it in a sock.
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                    Originally posted by billeau2 View Post

                    My absolute favorite. Dude could be a dunce, had a recorded IQ of like 70... But was imo one of the very smartest. Ran things invisably, and when he left this earth, unlike so many who wound up with nothing because of RICO, The Chin had a brownstone in NYC. You could sell 50 of Castellono's Staten Island Mansions and not buy that townhouse... Chin managed to fool the feds for years...
                    What would you say is the difference between VIOLENCE and FIGHTING

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