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Let me get this straight. Con artist Willie Wise who is starting a 19-year prison sentence for swindling hundreds of folks out of millions of dollars - some of it life savings - continues to sit in a California prison cell while his legal team and prosecutors discuss how much and how Willie will repay his victims. Restitution. You must be kidding! The guy (Cornwall native, former city councillor and owner of the beloved Cornwall Royals Hockey Club) blew it all on the fast lane. The Caribbean party mansion, the yacht, the swank home in Raleigh, N.C., the private jet, the expensive cars are gone. Willie`s wardrobe is down to a prison jumpsuit. If Willie were getting out of prison today he would need a tin cup and a busy corner to stand on, preferable near the local mission. So, unless there is a dramatic increase in pay for working in the prison laundry, the good folks who put their trust and life savings in Willie`s Ponzi scheme shouldn’t expect to get much more than pennies on the dollar. ******** How tough was George Chuvalo? Well, in a career that covered three decades and included 93 professional fights against some of the most feared punchers in the boxing business, the four-time Canadian heavyweight champ was never knocked off his feat. Never. Not by Muhammad Ali. Not by George Foreman. Not by Floyd Patterson. Not by Joe Frazer. Nor by Ernie Tyrell and Jimmy Ellis. All
men who wore the heavyweight title belt during their careers. Not exactly the ‘stiff’ variety. He went 15 rounds with Ali. Not once, but twice. The first time, in 1966, was just two years after Ali and his rope-a-dope theatrics turned the champ, Sonny Liston, inside out. Ali called Chuvalo the toughest opponent he faced. Patterson, a two-time heavyweight champ, said the same. When he hung up the gloves, Chuvalo owned a respectable 73-18-2 record. And not only could the Toronto native take a punch, or two, or three, and keep on a comin’, but he packed a pretty good wallop. He knocked out 64 of his opponents. Chuvalo grabbed the attention of the Canadian boxing community when he was 18 years old. During a Jack Dempsey Novice Heavyweight Tournament, he knocked out four opponents in one night. In retirement, Chuvalo took on a new opponent: drug addiction. He has lost three sons and a wife to substance abuse or suicide. He has spent countless days and hours speaking to students, parents and anyone else who wants to listen about the dangers of drug use. On Saturday night, the boxing legend will be in Cornwall as a special guest of the Children`s Treatment Centre amateur boxing night at NAV Centre (dinner and boxing). Tickets (individual and tables) are still available. For information and tickets contact ScotiaBank in Cornwall. TRIVIA ANSWER Cornwall’s transit system was operated by Cornwall Street Railway Light