Resurrecting the Champ

<i>That was a- How you say? It was a-</i> 603 00:35:12,676 --> 00:35:16,743 That was a big humiliation for me. 604 00:35:16,847 --> 00:35:20,601 I had a couple more fights after that. But I was only about 30%. 605 00:35:20,705 --> 00:35:23,103 Wasn't no need in me carryin' on. 606 00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:27,378 <i>I moved to Sioux City, see? Up and left my family.</i> 607 00:35:28,734 --> 00:35:30,819 <i> On account of the humiliation?</i> 608 00:35:30,924 --> 00:35:33,530 <i> Yeah, yeah, exactly right.</i> 609 00:35:33,635 --> 00:35:35,929 <i>I worked in the horse stables, uh-</i> 610 00:35:36,033 --> 00:35:40,517 <i>One of the owners, he-he-he found out who I was, and he had this idea, see?</i> 611 00:35:40,621 --> 00:35:43,019 <i>I told you before. You can't be standing still.</i> 612 00:35:43,123 --> 00:35:46,460 You can't fight his fight! You have to fight your own fight! 613 00:35:46,564 --> 00:35:49,484 <i> He boxed me in the West and the-and-and-and the Midwest...</i> 614 00:35:49,588 --> 00:35:51,465 <i>where nobody knew nothin' about boxing.</i> 615 00:35:51,569 --> 00:35:53,550 <i>Wasn't no real competition.</i> 616 00:35:53,655 --> 00:35:56,991 <i>These were, how you say, uh-uh-uh, non-sanctioned.</i> 617 00:35:57,096 --> 00:35:59,181 <i>But, hell, I could be a winner.</i> 618 00:35:59,285 --> 00:36:01,371 <i></i> 619 00:36:01,475 --> 00:36:03,873 <i></i> 620 00:36:18,367 --> 00:36:21,808 <i> So, I fought and fought. Must've been, like, every other week.</i> 621 00:36:32,548 --> 00:36:34,737 <i>Knocked all of'em out.</i> 622 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,117 <i></i> 623 00:36:39,221 --> 00:36:44,643 <i>And in this corner, weighing a lean, mean 185 pounds...</i> 624 00:36:44,747 --> 00:36:50,691 from Chicago, Illinois, Battlin' Bob Satterfield! 625 00:36:50,795 --> 00:36:53,610 <i> But maybe I-I-l- How-How you say-</i> 626 00:36:53,715 --> 00:36:55,696 <i>Boxed-Boxed too much.</i> 627 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,198 <i>One day I was just plain exhausted and beat to shit.</i> 628 00:37:00,075 --> 00:37:02,056 <i></i> 629 00:37:06,957 --> 00:37:10,815 <i>Some huge boy knocked me down hard.</i> 630 00:37:13,630 --> 00:37:16,029 <i>- - Knocked me in the eye.</i> 631 00:37:16,133 --> 00:37:18,948 <i>And messed up my vision real bad.</i> 632 00:37:21,764 --> 00:37:24,787 <i>Then I-I-I-I-I just- I just couldn't fight no more after that.</i> 633 00:37:26,977 --> 00:37:30,627 And that-That son of a bitch owner, he kept all the money. 634 00:37:30,731 --> 00:37:34,485 He said, uh, I had messed up the merchandise. 635 00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:40,949 So, then I hitched my way down here. 636 00:37:46,267 --> 00:37:48,353 I remember fighting out here once. 637 00:37:51,064 --> 00:37:54,088 Air was clean. 638 00:37:54,192 --> 00:37:58,050 Been out here for, ooh, 40-somethin' years. 639 00:37:58,988 --> 00:38:01,595 Jesus Christ. 640 00:38:01,699 --> 00:38:03,576 This is all I could find on your guy. 641 00:38:05,662 --> 00:38:07,643 I'll keep looking, but there's not a lot out there. 642 00:38:07,747 --> 00:38:10,562 - Thank you. - Sorry. 643 00:38:10,667 --> 00:38:12,856 Did you find the contact information on Satterfield Jr. ? 644 00:38:12,961 --> 00:38:15,046 There are no listings in Ohio, where he's from. 645 00:38:15,150 --> 00:38:17,444 But I'll try New York, and then Pennsylvania. 646 00:38:17,549 --> 00:38:18,800 And we'll go from there. 647 00:38:18,904 --> 00:38:22,241 <i>- Thanks. - I did also find this.</i> 648 00:38:24,326 --> 00:38:25,890 What's that? 649 00:38:25,995 --> 00:38:29,018 <i> Did you get that press release from the mayor's office?</i> 650 00:38:29,123 --> 00:38:31,938 <i></i> 651 00:38:32,042 --> 00:38:34,336 <i></i> 652 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,881 <i>I'll call you back. Come right on in.</i> 653 00:38:39,445 --> 00:38:41,844 What's this? 654 00:38:41,948 --> 00:38:47,266 That... is Battlin' Bob Satterfield. Fightin'Joe Blow. 655 00:38:47,370 --> 00:38:49,560 Joe Blow. You don't know who he's fighting? 656 00:38:49,664 --> 00:38:52,584 - I'm questioning those investigative skills there. 657 00:38:52,688 --> 00:38:53,626 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 658 00:38:53,731 --> 00:38:57,380 We got this off a collector. It's the only one we could find. 659 00:38:59,257 --> 00:39:01,342 <i>Beautiful.</i> 660 00:39:02,594 --> 00:39:05,722 To be a reporter back then. Can you imagine? 661 00:39:06,973 --> 00:39:09,476 You really are only as good as the athletes you cover. 662 00:39:11,561 --> 00:39:14,063 Which one's Satterfield? 663 00:39:14,168 --> 00:39:17,192 He's, uh, this one here. 664 00:39:17,296 --> 00:39:19,277 - See the scar on his back? - Mm-hmm. 665 00:39:19,381 --> 00:39:22,405 His dad gave him that when he was nine years old. Can you believe that? 666 00:39:29,913 --> 00:39:32,...