Dylan did like a anti hero though. He sings - brilliantly it must be said - about Joey on Desire and you wouldn't really know it was about Crazy Joey Gallo.
He was a psycho gangster who rose up through the New York mafia ranks with untold hits to his name. Dylan makes him out to be Robin Hood.
That's right. I think she shot him in the leg in the early 70's or one of his women did. There were a lot of them as the story goes.
The only time he got stopped.
You're quite right, we won't see those days again. Too many 'champions' now who don't want to or more to the point, don't need to fight each other.
Go back a few years more and maybe the best of them all..... Carlos Monzon.