About Gus Mercurio
Augustino Eugenio "Gus" Mercurio (10 August 1928 – 7 December 2010) was an American-Australian chiropractor, actor, boxing referee, boxing judge, and sports commentator. He was equally prominent as a character actor on film and television, and as a personality in the sports world. He was a long-time commentator on the Seven Network's World of Sport from 1976 to 1987. The Sydney Morning Herald described him as "one of the most recognised and loved faces in Australian television," while boxing writer Paul Upham called him "one of the great characters of Australian boxing." == Early life == Of Sicilian descent, Mercurio was born in West Bend, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, in 1928. He was the eldest child of Vincent A. Mercurio and Cecilia W. 'Mickey' Miller. He had two sisters, Gerie and Connie, and a brother, Tony. The elder Mercurio was a member of the Milwaukee mob, and according to his son, was verbally and emotionally abusive. His parents were divorced when he was seven. Mercurio served in the United States Maritime Service, then the United States Marine Corps, and was also a chiropractor. He first visited Australia during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and decided to stay.
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