I am always on the lookout for boxing items, especially those regarding Atlantic City heavyweight boxing. There have been so few heavyweight fights held there that I love the stuff.

I puchased this ringside i.d. from the 1997 Lewis /Golota fight.

Something about the name on the i.d. rang a bell. Greg Goosen.

From Wikipedia:

"After his baseball retirement, Goossen worked as a private investigator at his father's firm, a job he had started during his baseball off-seasons. Later he helped his brother, Dan Goossen who owned Ten Goose Professional Boxing along with his brothers, as a boxing trainer. Notable boxers that he worked with included Rick Lindland, an amateur boxer-turned-actor and 1980s middleweight champion Michael Nunn.

While at the gym in 1988, his brother Joe asked him to meet with actor Gene Hackman, who was doing research for the film Split Decisions. Soon after the two became friends and the actor hired Goossen to work as his stand-in. Hackman then had written into his contract that Goossen would serve as his stand-in for every film he did. He would eventually appear in 15 of Hackman’s movies between 1989 and 2003, including Unforgiven, The Firm, Get Shorty and Wyatt Earp.

Goossen was a regular at his nephews baseball games at his former high school only about a long home run from his home. Goossen was scheduled to be inducted into the Notre Dame High School Hall of Fame on February 26, 2011, but when he did not arrive for a photo session, a family member went to his nearby home in Sherman Oaks and found him dead at the age of 65. The cause of death was not determined."