Old Time boxing trainers used to be very interested in the size of a man's hands. Even modern boxers with exceptional hands have more dangerous punches as the oversized hands stretch out the gloves and stress the padding. Krinkle, the former gang member who told me the tales of Deelo's Dawgs, had hands nearly twice the size of mine. He told me that Deelo's hands dwarfed his own, that the man carried a "big-ass twenty-two" because he liked the way it fit his hand and that he could get his finger in the guard. There will be more tales of Deelo and his savage crew posted as the year winds down.
#63-20 & 21: night, seconds, eye-witness
“Deelo was one a the New York Boyz. He neva punched. Come up from behine and smack ya with a half-clenched fist. He was sooo strong Slapped a dude durin’ a basketball game once en left a bloody hand print on is back. His bones was heavy. Looked exactly like Tyson, only uglia, even uglia then Leon Spinx!
“One time we out whit da Dawgz [Deelo’s clique] en dis rival dude who Deelo oways whooped on was workin’ one a da little Dawgz. Deelo come up from behine whit da paw to da right cheek—sent him down! Den out come the twenty-two en Deelo caps da back a da head, walks ova, en walks on—like that.”
-Krinkle
