 died 8/20/06  Greenport, NY) was the prizefighter who Budd Schulberg (qv)  credited with partly inspiring the famous line of Terry Malloy  (Marlon Brando (qv)), "I coulda been a contender". He was Brandos  trainer for the film. He came up with the idea of putting little  plastic tubes in Brandos nose to represent scar tissue.