Former boxing champ Greg Haugen fights on
Haugen plays Super Mario Bros. with his 7-year-old grandson, Blaine, who has autism, at Haugen's residence in Puyallup, where he lives with a friend. "If it wasn't for being able to stay with my buddy, I'd be pretty down and out," Haugen says. "I want to get my own place, but it takes time." Haugen started a foundation and has hosted fundraisers to benefit autism services.
GREG HAUGEN climbs the steps to the boxing ring, and the familiar adrenaline rush kicks in.
The ropes are stretched wide, and he climbs through gracefully. He can almost picture the celebrities and the beautiful people at ringside in their $1,500 seats.
It's bright and hot inside the ring, the way it always is on fight night. He enjoys the comforting bounce of the blue canvas. It's as if the ring floor is jampacked again with managers and promoters, trainers with towels draped over their shoulders, cornermen raising jewel-studded championship belts toward the rafters.
The man in the suit grabs the microphone and calls out Haugen's name in that ring-announcer style ... "from Auburn, Washington: four-time world champion, Greg Howwww-gunnnnnn ... "
Then the cheers from the crowd of 1,600 in the showroom at the Emerald Queen Casino fade away, and reality bites. This ain't Caesars Palace, and 50-year-old Greg Haugen is no longer ready to rumble.
ONCE, HE was the best lightweight boxer on the planet. A tough, good-looking, cocky kid who grew up poor in a broken home and became a world champion and Hall of Famer, one of the best fighters in Washington history.
He's been retired for 12 years from a sport that offers no pension plan, and the money he earned has been either squandered or stolen. He hasn't had a steady paycheck since 2006 and lives at a friend's house in Puyallup. He's a high-school dropout. His greatest skill — punching people in the face — doesn't count for much in the real world.
But Haugen's still cocky.
"We haven't had a great fighter from here since me," he says, assessing the current state of local boxing.
Actually, cocky isn't really the right word. Honest is better. Brutally, profanely, honest. Ask Haugen a question, you get a straight answer. It never occurs to him to give anything else, and he expects the same in return. That's the way his mom raised him and five other kids.
He's easy enough to recognize at the Emerald Queen's Battle at the Boat 81, the most recent of the Tacoma casino's regular boxing series.
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