NIGEL BENN v MICHAEL WATSON press conference. With Ambrose Mendy & Frank Maloney

I’ll never forget the hype around London for this, EVERYONE was talking about it. None of us kids had actually seen Watson but lots were tipping him saying things like ‘my dad says this or that about Watson -trust me’, we’d all seen Benn of course and thought he was an unbeatable demolisher in our little pea brains

 

Lost a few quid that day, had a double on, Watson to win and Liverpool to win FA cup in 90 minutes, Everton equalised with last kick of the 90 minutes, gutted to say the least.

 

McCall! It’s in! Lol

 

Ambrose Mendy had more moves than a Turkish belly dancer on speed !! we are both from Islington and the same age.. keep well.

 

No idea what he’s doing now but I think he did a couple of short stretches inside possibly for fraud and burglary.

 

Nowadays it is the pockets that are burgled on a monthly basis by those who don't learn

 

PPV mugs allowing themselves to be robbed

 

Good ol' Ambrose Mandy. I like the video of the Benn-Eubank signing the contract, with Ambrose in it. Great bit of banter.

 

Didn't Mendy lose a relative in the Grenfell fire?
I could be mistaken.

 

God knows what the viewing figures for that fight were but the press conference looked like it was done in the convention room of a pub and it was revealed Nigel would be getting a purse of 300k !!

So yeah things were a lot different back then

 

Probably in the region of (mean average) 9M on a Sunday night on ITV around 10:30 (after the ring walk of Benn and extravagant introductions). I suspect figures ‘peaked’ around 11-12M. I remember Jonathan Ross and Linda Lusardi being ringside and Carlsberg sponsoring it.

A Commonwealth trophy fight.

Carl Froch’s World title fights on ITV got 1.9M (peaking at 2.2M) by comparison.

 

Did anyone here go?

Intrigued to know if the Finsbury Park "Supertent" was anything like as weird as it sounds. Can't find any decent pictures of it online.