He turned down a $75,000 offer to fight Wilfred Benítez in Madison Square Garden, prompted by the aggravated symptoms of head trauma he experienced after the Chiaverini loss.
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He turned pro in 1972, fighting his first nine fights out of Mobile and then joining the stable of Pete Ashlock in Orlando, Florida.
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Ross grew up in Tuscaloosa; his brother Ronnie played football for Auburn, but he was too violent for football, according to a childhood friends, and picked fights on the Tuscaloosa streets before turning to amateur boxing on the advice of a Tuscaloosa County deputy sheriff who, himself an amateur boxer, had seen Ross beat up on people in bars and parking lots.
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