Largely because I live out west and he lived back east, I never had the privilege of meeting Jack Obermayer who passed away Saturday morning, Jan. 25, reportedly from liver cancer, at his home in Lindenwold, New Jersey.
I never met him, but over the years I met many who did and the mention of Obermayer's name invariably brought a twinkle to their eye and brought forth an amusing anecdote. Obermayer likely witnessed more fights from ringside than any person ever. If there was a little club show in some hardscrabble town off the beaten path and the roads were slippery because of a winter storm, Obermayer would have been there -- or so I was told.
In 2010, Bernard Fernandez, the president of the Boxing Writers Association of America, presented Obermayer with an award for long and meritorious service to boxing.
Fernandez is writing an obit that will tentatively arrive on our home page on Sunday evening or more likely Monday. I look forward to reading it and learning more about this cult figure.
I never met him, but over the years I met many who did and the mention of Obermayer's name invariably brought a twinkle to their eye and brought forth an amusing anecdote. Obermayer likely witnessed more fights from ringside than any person ever. If there was a little club show in some hardscrabble town off the beaten path and the roads were slippery because of a winter storm, Obermayer would have been there -- or so I was told.
In 2010, Bernard Fernandez, the president of the Boxing Writers Association of America, presented Obermayer with an award for long and meritorious service to boxing.
Fernandez is writing an obit that will tentatively arrive on our home page on Sunday evening or more likely Monday. I look forward to reading it and learning more about this cult figure.
R.I.P Jack Obermayer -- the hardest working scribe in the world of boxing
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