was minnosata fats a world champ in billards?

Question

was minnosata fats a world champ in billards?

Answer 1

No Minnesota Fatts was never a world champion. He was a great pool player though , especially at bank shots.I don't know about him being a pool hustler but he sure could talk a great game sorta speak. Pool hustlers prey upon weaker players to get an easy buck and I don't know that fatts ever did that. I believe his nickname was New York Fatts until the movie the hustler came out and then he changed it to Minnesota to match one of the main characters in the movie. Minnesota Fatts was played by Jackie Gleason in that movie who was a great pool player in his own right.Anyway to answer your question , no he wasn't a world champion , but he was a good person and a great ambassador for the game of pool.

Answer 2

drd is right. Fats was never a real champ. He was just famous for the way he acted. He was a great pool player but a better hustler. He never won any of the underground hustlers champioships (held in Illinois by the way). He was simply a great talker and hustler. He made himself famous by the stories he told about himself. Also he got onto t.v. with Mosconi in his later days, which helped get his name out there, but that is how you know he was not really one of the best because back then the best didn't want people to know who they were, because then they could not hustle you.

Answer 3

Legend of bullards great pool player ( World Champion ) yes!

Minnosata Fats - Name : Rudolph Warnderno - Mosconi -T.V name.

Answer 4

Yes for 15 years. He also became the worlds first trick shot shooter.

Answer 5

never was champ.

Though he was never a top-ranked pool player, he was by all accounts a good hustler, being a compulsive talker who distracted his opponents by bragging and mouthing off.

Willie Mosconi 15-times World Champion

Answer 6

Yes he was! Old school! By the way...It's spelled Minnesota Fats! And billiards:)



Mosconi was awesome too. Not sure if I spelled that right. :)

Answer 7

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yes