Give an example of never meet your heroes you'll only be disappointed

I’m not shocked, since Ward, who was very well taken care of by Dan Goossen tried to renege on their agreement before his contract was up and even slandered Dan, so despite Ward being an excellent fighter he showed his lack of integrity.

After Dan died the Goossen family could’ve legally tied Ward up in the legal system for years on Dan’s behalf, but only because despite everything the Goossen’s still wished the best for Ward they let him off very easy and settled with him to allow him to sign with RocNation, since Ward’s case had zero merit.

 

No. I'm sorry.

 

I would honestly hesitate if ever offered the opportunity to meet someone I've built up in my mind to the point of admiration. Maybe it's just cynicism, but I think of celebrities as part of someone's scam, getting one over on people who need to idolize something or put someone else above themselves for whatever reason. They're just people after all.

I guess I'd be most impressed with a celebrity who thinks of the idea of celebrity as I do. But then they probably wouldn't be a celebrity if they thought that.

 

Meh. the kid was 17 or so. He wasn't complaining at the time.

 

Doesn't matter. If you stick your nose in a beehive, you tend to get more than a nostrilful of honey. When you kick up the kind of stink she did about someone else's inappropriate sexual behaviour, it doesn't half help if you haven't got an almighty skeleton in your own closet that might blow up in your face. The whole MeToo movement went quiet after that, as it had to. She'd totally discredited what they stood for.

Fact is what Asia Argento did was illegal even if it is the stuff of young boys' (and middle aged men's) dreams. How would she have liked it if Harvey Weinstein had successfully used as his own defence that 'they weren't complaining'?

Sorry catch. Not having a go at you but there was a whole lot about that episode that I found wrong, Weinstein's behaviour not being alone in that.

 

I'd have loved to meet Griffith.

 

Harvey Weinstein raped women. She raped nobody.

I am sorry, but men are always going to be held to higher standard sexually, because they have they have the opportunity to ****, hurt, and impregnate, whereas women can't do those things. It just is what it is.

I don't intend to get into it any further. I like her and I don't think she did anything wrong.

 

Fair comments, mate. And you're right to say no more. I shouldn't have brought it up here.

 

That' hugely disappointing.

 

As a general rule, Boxing people are the best you could meet. A couple of personal observations from my Boxing days:
Wally Swift Snr could be a bit surly. A very tough guy Wally, not to be messed with. Best off staying out of his way.
Steve Boyle came down to spar at the Birmingham City Gym and dropped out a racist comment to Hughie Forde. Forde went ballistic, the gym was in uproar and Hughie had to be restrained. Lloyd Christie said he was going to have Boyle for sure so Steve was on the train back to Glasgow the next morning.
We were all chuffed when, 6 or so months later, another Fighter from our gym, Tony Willis pasted Boyle in a British Title defence.

 

I don’t have any stories.. But common sense always told me that these are guys who were paid to beat the shlt out of people - and many of whom came from very unfriendly beginnings in the first place. Now add to that a little arrogance along with the life experience of people trying to use them for everything they’ve got and I wouldn’t expect a handshake from too many of them..

 

....should I even ask what magic was going in a hotel in cleveland? Always looked like a down to earth guy. Only met a few boxers And the were all awesome. Hearns and Hopkins being the biggest names. Met a lot of celebrities. Serena and Venus Williams not approachable or friendly at all. Will Ferrell is a strange dude not very friendly. John McEnroe is fricking awesome...just as angry as advertised but cool as hell.

 

I was watching a fight at Jack Demsey's in Manhattan a few years ago, and Teddy Atlas entered the bar before the main event to a brief round of applause (I can't recall which fight it was, possibly Ward-Kovalev I). He was wearing a sport coat just like during his ESPN days and seemed to be a good mood. Anyway, I lost track of where Atlas went and stayed for a few drinks after the fight. When I was leaving, I noticed the bouncers at the strip club next door pushing out a man in a white button up drenched through with liquor to the point of seeing the tan on his back. I got closer and realized that it was Atlas. As I walked by, he was putting his index finger in one of the bouncers' faces and angrily muttering something about "that Russian *****" who had apparently taken his forty dollars.