Name the fighters you have met face to face

tommy hearns
roger mayweather

 

forgot to mention big frank Bruno off his eye in tenerife.!

 

i haven't met anyone myself but my mum and lil bro met lennox lewis on a plane to jamaica.

also a guy i work with who is from ghana is friends with azumah nelson and used to teach his kids english when he was a teacher there. said azumah's really cool and friendly but has a really short temper.

 

Ricky Hatton
Joe Calzaghe
Ryan Rhodes (very cool guy, always thought he would be a bit of a twat)
Jamie Moore
Acelino Freitas
Frank Bruno (nicest bloke in the world, met him in Torremolinos)
Robin Reid

Mainly British fighters.

 

Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Frazier, Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Henry Cooper, Brian London, Alan Minter, Ken Buchanan, David Haye, Enzo Mac, Nathan Cleverly, Zab Judah, Shannon Briggs, Duke McKenzie, Jamie Moore, Ryan Rhodes, Steve Collins, Robin Reid, Richie Woodhall, Amir Khan, Henry Wharton, Carl Johannson, Kevin Mitchell, Johnny Nelson, Lloyd Honeyghan, Billy Hardy, Paul Ingle, Emile Griffith, James DeGale,Larry Holmes, Earnie Shavers, Bonecrusher Smith, Tommy Morrison, George Chuvalo, Michael Gomez, Emmanuel Steward

 

Forgot Michael Watson,

plus just for an heads up, to anybody living in Yorkshire really, Sugar Ray Leonard is in Leeds at a dinner show sometime in october!!!

 

I met Amir Khan and his team on board a flight to vegas.
Despite him being a millionaire he was flying economy and they upgraded his party half way into the flight into the business section. To me he was just a D level celeb but the cabin crew were acting like he was royalty.

 

Ah yeah, it was after the first Mosley fight, right? That was a LONG time ago. Seems like yesterday. I'm old as hell. *yawn*

 

wow really? he seems so nice in tv during interview

 

Junior Witter on numerous occasions
Bobby Vanzie also on numerous occasions
Robin Ried
Ricky Hatton
Floyd Mayweather Sr

 

WOW!! I would've thought griffin would be the nicest of the bunch, and baroni would be a complete *****. Jardine lives here in albuquerque, and from what i've heard is just one of the gang.

 

really sucks to hear kermit cintron is a bit of douche...i cant say im suprised...especially seeing how he reacts...after margarito....after the martinez fight(some funny ****)....im not a fan....but the guy had a pretty rough early life....hes a good athlete...and hes made a pretty good living in the sport....

 

Sugar Ray Leonard
Evander Holyfield
Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Hatton
Frank Bruno
Richie Woodhall
Spencer Oliver
Duke McKenzie
Terry Marsh
John McDermott

 

Before the Williams-Margarito fight we were on Santa Monica Pier for the press conference. I had a chance to talk briefly with Margarito and his manager. Margo seemed really cool as ****. Even though he knew I was there with Paul and Co. they were very cordial.

Later that day, I sat in front of the Crown Reef talkin **** with Chris Arreola and one of his buddies. This is before he got fat. I was telling him if the boxing thing didn't work out, he could always try to play Linebacker or something. He was like "Hell No!" They run too fast! He is a real clown. He could actually do stand-up comedy if he worked on it a little.


In Temeculah at the Pechanga where Paul lost to Quintana, My father and I got to the San Diego airport. We rode in the Limo/shuttle with Berto's Mother and Father. He was fighting that weekend too. We talked about how Andre was moving up, etc. His parents were really cool. Later that day we ate lunch with them, and I met Andre and his younger brother who played football for Cal - San Francisco.


In Connecticut, at the Mohegan, I hung out with Sergio Mora and his crew from LA. They were also Margarito's boys (Margo and Mora were in the same gym), and were bragging about how Margo was gonna beat Cotto. After the fights (Mora beat Forrest and Paul beat Carlos) I had a chance to have drinks with Buddy McGirt, who was a bit of a pimp. I also had a chance to speak to Carlos Quintana afterwards, and hung out with one of his "Entourage" for a little while in the hotel lobby, since this fool seemed to know a lot of the Puertorican chicks who had driven up from NY. I always liked Carlos Quintana, because he seemed like a real humble, honest, hard-working guy.

 

I had the pleasure of meeting Ike Williams years ago....very nice guy somewhat sad in that he looked totally broke. Floyd Patterson was a pleasure meeting as well, we talked over his book "Victory over Myself". Roberto Duran and I chatted up for quite a while (thru an interpreter)...Ray Leonard was very intense (he was training for Lalonde), Tommy Hearns (very nice guy), the great J.C.C. (actually had a chance to train with him for a few days at G.G.'s in Vegas), Terry Norris (all business), Jorge Paez (we watched in amazement as he removed yet another shirt after each round of sparring....I counted eight), "Irish" Leroy Haley, Lonnie Smith, Michael Nunn (spent the night running thru the club looking for his $3 million purse check which he'd lost), Orlando Canizales, (explained to me how doing roadwork at night was better for him than in the morning), T. Morrison (I did a few interviews with him and I was surprised at how smart he was), Roger Mayweather (went a few rounds with him, man, for a little guy he could hit), Ron Lyle & Iran Barkley (neither was in a great mood when I met them, Barkley seemed deeply depressed), Robert "Bam-Bam" Hines and I happened to be in an elevator at the Hilton in Vegas when the damn thing just stopped and we were trapped together for 15 or so minutes...I thought Hines was gonna loose it...he was like a caged animal.