By Daniel Hanley Back in the mid-’80s, while working as an amateur boxing judge, I spotted a kid at a show whom I had been hearing about professionally. Dressed in a white blazer and looking like an Hispanic version of Sonny Crockett – hey, it was the ’80s – I found him very forthcoming on his career to date. Fast forward 30 years and I’m in a neighborhood restaurant tackling a steak with the intensity of a stray mongrel on roadkill, when I spot this dude with an unmistakable fighter’s nose. I was simply going to ask him if he had done a bit of boxing when I suddenly found myself sputtering, “Hey…are you Joey Ruiz?” Although – thank God – no longer sporting the Miami Vice look, he isn’t too far past his 140 lb. fighting weight of that era. And he is doing alright.
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