awesome RSN! Glad to hear you were lucky enough to have such a great night. He didn't happen to have any opinion about Jack Johnson or any fighters of that era, did he?
Hello Reznick - wished I'd asked him about that era too really - did tell him Jack Dempsey was one of my favourites and he kind of scrunched up his face and went "Wellllll :think - he was a great fighter but he fought in a weak era???:nono He had all the talent in the world though...but there weren't the guys around to give him a real fight, when he was champ." Kind of like he was umming and arring about him a bit - that surprised me actually - but he did say something along the lines of - there's good and bad in every era - the good fighters from every era would've been good fighters whenever they fought and whoever they fought ps check out this - see the pic of Jake being interviewed (on page 2 of the article - well that's me to the otherside of the interviewer - the guy was getting a little peeved at me I think coz I kept interjecting with my own (much more interesting) questions hahaha - I chatted to the interviewer for a bit that night aswell - he must've thought It'd make my day if he got me in the pic hahaha http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/s...ing-saved/article-2820530-detail/article.html
Well, I was thinking about his opinions on fighters, eras and boxers overall. His opinions sound reasonable. You often hear about fighters or trainers who´s opinions aren´t, there was a recent article on Holyfield´s opinion on Joe Louis which was not very reasonable.
I'm 5'7" pigbearman - i was seated aswell when pic was taken (as was Jake) - the interviewer was about 6'4" though there was another fighter who attended - cruiserweight Orvil McKensie who won one of those prizefighter things they stage over here - he was a real nice guy he had his little son along with him - well cute when they had their picture taken with Jake
go to this and it's on page two of the article - I'm the one on the other side of the interviewer - everyone keeps telling me it looks like my face is growing out of the side of the interviwers face This content is protected
do you know, the lounge is great crack at times...but, and maybe its just me thinking it, there are people who post there, and only there, that dont seem to have the slightest interest in boxing at all. anyway...rockyssplitnose....when did you hear about lamotta coming to derby ?
cheers doug - think Jake was more impressed with my interview questions compared to the interviewer from the local rag
Thats because he probably had no clue about boxing from that era, probably just sent him because he liked sport or something