Bronco Billy Wright is the Grizzly Adams of the Heavyweight Division
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
The real world lost Dan Haggerty, the movie and television ‘Grizzly Adams’ mountain man of nature and animals, yesterday. However, the boxing world has its own successful old school fighting dinosaur in the heavyweight division, who keeps getting older and keeps winning. His opponents, and his world, and not the real world as other heavyweights experience it. The old man of boxing keeps rolling along. There are not many boxers who make their statement in such a way. There are others like him, though, to whom the right to do their own thing in the ring shatters the time barrier, and represents an expression of personal freedom of sorts. It’s the personal right to just do it that is of interest. It would not happen in the stronger states of the United States.
Bronco Billy Wright is 51 years old. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, his career record is 51 wins and four losses, with 42 knockouts. A winner of 22 consecutive pro bouts, he did hard time in jail for five years, causing a career break from 1999 to 2007 for an assault on someone who had messed with one of his children, something Wright is not proud of.
Today, both boxing and running his automotive shop are a keen focus Bronco Billy is proud of. While at 306 pounds Bronco Billy is yea overweight, he maintains a clean lifestyle, and still holds the World Boxing Council Latino and Fecarbox heavyweight title belts. Currently ranked 24th in the world by the WBC, Wright scored his fifth consecutive first round knockout over Wilfredo German Arce on Bolivia on January 9, 2016. Bolivia is not the mainstream location for boxers to continue their career. It is for Bronco Billy, who still keeps rolling along. Bronco Billy’s best chance is as a last minute opponent for one of the paper heavyweight champions if a challenger pulls out. However remote the possibility, the chance of such a record breaking heavyweight title challenge remains on the table.
At age 51, Bronco Billy Wright still has seven years to reach Iranian American southpaw heavyweight Hassan Chitsaz of Los Angeles, California, who incredibly scored his 27th knockout in 27 bouts at age 58 in Sinaloa, Mexico, on June 26, 2015. Can you believe it?
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