WITH FRIENDS LIKE FRANKIE

AP REDSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI

After several years of obscurity, a figure aspiring to success in the seedy world of sweaty L.A. gyms and human cock-fights, has emerged from an unknown corner to set the boxing world reeling with his knockout new book, “Let’s Just Kill All the Cripples.”

Frankie Dunn, by some counts a talented manager, had a few close bouts with success in boxers like Scrap Iron Dupuis and Maggie Fitzgerald. Unfortunately, both boxers ended up being managed into serious injuries by Dunn, with Fitzgerald finally dying mysteriously in a rehab center. We caught up with Frankie on a Mississippi hillside, just as he pushed his ’87 Chevy into the lake below.

“Ai cleghella maericnish eraenhor!” called out Frankie. He turned to us and shrugged with gritty shyness. “That’s Gaelic. It means, “That’s for those with broken mufflers!”