GrimmishPain was Joe Grim's self expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908 09, the Italian American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast, Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson Tommy Burns 'Fight of the Century'; on the west coast, he was committed to an insane asylum. In between, he played with the concept and reality of pain in a