Best boxer you've ever met?

I met Chris Eubank last year and he was very pleasant and friendly. I bumped into him in the street in Cardiff, entirely by chance, and said I was a fan. We had a brief conversation. He shook me warmly by the hand and even took a photograph of us together with my pocket digital camera.

As Bill said, celebrities don't have to act like that. They could easily ignore you or give you the brush off. It was a pleasure to meet Mr Eubank.

 

Biggest name I've met is Rudy Koopmans, who was drinking beers in a bar a few chairs away from me

You don't meet many hall of famers in rural Doucheland.

 

Marciano at the Brockton Fair when I was a kid...
Tony DeMarco...
Carmen Basilio...
Marvin Hagler....
Jake LaMotta...
Bob Foster...
Willie Pep...
Jack Dempsey at his restaurant in NYC...
Paul Pender...

 

What are Pep and Foster like?

 

When I met Pep, he introduced me to his wife. I said, that's not your wife, as she was so young looking she actually looked more like his grand daughter or at least his young daughter. He laughed and said, why, you think she is too old for me. He was a real nice guy, as he continued to tell me some jokes and I didn't know when he was telling me the truth or just joking around.

By the time he married his present wife, Barbara, in 1987, he had been through five marriages. "All my wives were great housekeepers," he used to say. "After every divorce, they kept the house."

 

Pep's got jokes.

 

Mate, I'm 37 y/o.. I've had the pleasure of gaining a close friendship with Fred Heneberry, Australian M/W Champ 1932, who faught Ken Overlin, Archie Moore...amongst others.. Historically speaking... every moment spoken becomes history....

Grasp every moment, throw the **** away, absorb the importance and let that take you to the next level.

 

I met Pep in Providence RI in 1987...nice man..I asked him about his winning a round against Jackie Graves without throwing a punch..I met Foster in 1969 after he KO'd Andy Kendell in Springfield Mass. in May 1969...shook his hand....he said"Hello"...asked where I was from...and left soon afterwards.