This is the current fate of a former boxer who know resides in Port Maria. To those who know their local boxing history, Stanley Campbell, as he was christened, started fighting back in the 1950s.

He got the nickname Kid Bassey from another boxer, a Nigerian named Hogan 'Kid' Bassey, who people say he resembled.

Campbell liked the name and used it as his official name when fighting. He said he was a welterweight, which is fought between 135 and 147 pounds.

"Ask some people right now what my real name is - they don't know. Everybody just call me Kid Bassey," said Campbell, who originates from Albion Mountain in the parish.

He battled Jamaican legends like Bunny Grant and Sugar Cliff and while he had some successes, he also had defeats.

"Whenever you have to make weight, it weakens you," he explained.

'real' money

We asked him how come he never made any 'real' money from boxing.

"If you got 40 pounds, you had to pay gym dues. Then the guys in the corner, you had to give them something too. So maybe you go home with 10, 15 pounds," he said.

He further explained that even if you were one of the crowd-pleasers, you would still only fight every other month at best, so the money wouldn't last.

He had a home but lost it in a fire in 1986. He was now homeless, just walking the streets like, in his words, "a madman". He tried catching fish to survive before the parish council offered him a job. He has a little dwelling provided by the council.

"A few of the people who know me say they can't believe that this is what I'm doing now. But it's still a job you know," he said.

Still, Kid Bassey would like some security in his life, reasoning that the parish council could, at any time, tell him they no longer need his services.