![]() As a professional boxer he worked with professional welterweight boxer and trainer Andy Escobar, Connors was his only client. During his professional boxing career, he received sponsorship by the boxing equipment and sportswear company Ben Lee, which would also sponsor his younger brother, James. After his honorable discharge he took up professional boxing. Marines he started boxing and excelled at it. Edward was trained at Fort Devens, Massachusetts where he was later placed in the 1st Battalion 25th Marines. Air Force and became a fighter pilot stationed at McGuire Air Force Base. His brother James followed Edward into the military and joined the U.S. In high school he was in the Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School basketball team in Rochester, Massachusetts as number "4" in 1955 and brought the team to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Northeastern Conference championships that year.Īfter graduating high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Bulger, Frank Salemme and William Bulger all hung out. As a youth he was a regular at the L Street Curley Gym and Bathhouse located at 1663 Columbia Road in South Boston where Stephen Flemmi, James J. Edward had a close physical resemblance to heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano. Edward was a sparring partner of Anthony Veranis and Joe DeNucci. ![]() Like Edward, James pursued a career as a professional featherweight boxer like his brother Edward and later a career in the U.S. His family suffered from financial problems and moved around frequently, they later moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts where they gave birth to his younger brother James Connors (Decem– November 9, 2006). Edward George Connors was born in Sharon, Massachusetts but raised in the Old Colony housing development at 265 East Ninth in South Boston, one of the Boston Housing Authority's oldest housing developments.
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