Which Pro Boxers have you met?

How did you get into the post fight party?

Some bloke offered us some tickets to the post Bute party but we thought he was having us on.

 

Michael Gomez has popped up afew times, seems like a legend.

 

Did you "acknowledge" him?

 

Read back..

"I gave a short story about meeting Michael Gomez".

 

Dunno if this counts but I met Kugan Cassius at the Bellew-Chilemba press conference and I was very disappointed. Spoke to him a few times on twitter and on there and in the IFilm videos he seemed a top bloke who's very nice and up for a chat.

However, when I saw/met him he wasn't. I let on to him and tried to be nice but I found him to be very rude. Didn't exactly blank me but wasn't very friendly when I tried to say hello. Maybe he was just busy or stressed out from all the work he was doing, I don't know. I came away though thinking he was very bad-mannered. My brother who I went with who didn't know him thought he was a ***** an all.

 

Instead of moaning, explain your interaction with him in detail.

What did he do..? What was his saying..?

Sounds interesting.

 

'It happens all the time! If you are in a predominately non-multicultural area'

Liverpool.

 

It was nothing really I guess, he walked past me and I said "Hello Kugan mate," just pleasantries. He just said "alright" as he walked past. That was fine, didn't expect him to stop because he was obviously busy.

It was what happened after that annoyed me a bit. I was waiting to get a photo with Bellew, the one I uploaded. Tony was on his phone and as me and my brother waited for him Kugan was sat behind us with his laptop set up with all the camera equipment and stuff. As me and my brother stood there waiting I turned around just to let on to him again. I said "you uploading Kugan mate?" (he'd just interviewed Derry Mathews) and all he said back was "No". It was sort of "leave me alone" tone without even looking up at me, I consider it proper bad-mannered. Me and my brother were the only ones standing by him too, he could have at least looked at me when I was talking to him.

Afterwards my brother just said "who was that *****? He proper blanked you when you tried to be nice." Like I said it was nothing really, just interesting when you meet people off telly/youtube in the flesh and doesn't go as you expect.

 

I shook floyd's hand as he arrived at the gym in london for build up to jmm fight. ****ing utter chaos that day.

 

Heard a few people say similar things. Shame really

 

Sounds like he was just busy, some people are lazy with communication.

I did not mention Tony Bellew in this thread, but i have shook his hand once, greeted him in my old work.

And everybody i know has met him, has said that he is down to earth.

Anybody can act nice when they know they have to greet fans, but..? one of my mates seen Tony Bellew on a night out and he just nodded and let on...."Was happy".

 

Maybe you're right yeah, still it pissed me off a bit though. I hate when people are rude or inconsiderate to their fans, it's proper ungrateful. Musicians are the worst, I've waited outside venues all day in the hopes of meeting some before gigs and when they've finally turned up some have just walked straight past without even letting on.

I asked one guy from the rock band Stone Sour (points for anyone who knows them :good) for a photo once when he was standing outside his tour bus have a smoke and he went "it's too ****ing early man" when it was 1pm in the afternoon. Probably only just woke up, the ****ing scruff.

Proper ****s people who refuse simple things for their fans.

 

That's why you should just watch from afar.

I would not want to bother David Haye or Audley Harrison.

There are days when i cannot be bother talking to people but..? I am a nice guy.

 

I met Haye before, really nice guy, time for everyone.

 

Ever met Tony Bellew mate?

'Did he do the black nod?'

'Did YOU do the black nod?'

Or was your subconscious unsure of Tony's ethnic origins?

"There's something in him, I just do not know what?"