It was commonly held during the 1950s that boxing attracted a bad element. At the beginning of the decade about one-third of all active fighters had criminal records, Boxing is not for choirboys, defenders argued Oscar Bonavena was not a choirboy. He was a brawling heavyweight from Argentina who was good enough to give Muhammad Ali a tough fifteen-round light in December 1968 and to knock Joe Frazier down twice, but he fell short of championship caliber. Like many professional boxers, he had a giant sexual appetite that was not tempered by good sense. Bonavena liked the girls at the Mustang Ranch, the legal brothel near Reno, Nevada, especially the owner's wife, Sally Con forte. Her husband Joe, described, as a "proud Sicilian" by Ms friends and as a mobster by the police, was not prudish when it came to his wife's liaisons with other men, but Joe Conforte did sot.....
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