Classic boxers youve met

Vincent Pettway signed a program for me at a fight card in Baltimore... had a few beers with Baltimore club fighter Jake The Snake Smith. Wouldnt call them classic though

 

You fought out of Petronelli's? me as well years ago

I've met riddick bowe, Kevin Mcbride, Marvin Hagler, Robby Sims(Haglers half brother who went onto defeat Duran in the late 80's) and Wayne Elcock who isn't really classic but a current mw who challenged for the the world title but fell short a few years ago. all of them nice guys

 

shook the hand of Ernie Shavers

 

Hmm so the first bout you saw was at the end of 2009. You havent been around as long as i thought.

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I had that experience at Ali's old gym in Venice, Cal. Shavers wasn't tryin' ta show how macho he was, just a simple handshake. Had I not dug my toes in, hedda lifted me off the floor.

 

But where is my slingshot ???

 

Holmes
Ali
Leonard
Duran
Shavers
Cobb
Mamby
Foster
Cooney
Camacho
Rosario
Lewis
Jones Jr.
Hearns
Moore
Tyson
Mercer
Pep
Arguello
Mancini
Barkley

Off the top of my head ...

 

at one of our amateur events i had a fight in i met George Chuvalo

 

haha! in that version of david vs goliath, goliath was robbed.

 

In the late spring of 1975, after his fight with Ali, Chuck Wepner made a personal appearance in my home town. As I shook his hand, I told him "I want to shake the hand that put Muhammad down." He replied "Next time it'll be OUT!" I also got his autograph and he introduced me to his wife - he was a very personable guy. Also, at the same appearance was a boxer who fought out of Plainfield, NJ in the 30s - Joe "Butch" Lynch. Although never a champion, he did fight a number of champions and top contenders in his career. He told me that he and Joe Louis had been good friends, and that he had known Jack Johnson. I asked him what Jack Johnson was like and he replied "... when Louis was champion Johnson went around looking for a white hope."

 

Marciano as a kid at the Brockton Fair...
Jake LaMotta...
Willie Pep...
Jack Dempsey at his restaurant just before it closed...
Marvin Hagler...
Bob Foster...
Jack Sharkey...
Sonny Liston while training for the 2nd Clay fight...I think it was October 1964...
Tony Demarco..
Carmine Basilio...

 

Jack Johnson?

Wowzers

 

Ok Burt you've got me covered.

I met Paul Ferrari when I was 9 and Lester Ellis a couple of years back outside a cinema.

Maybe they're not exactly classic boxers but one was a world champ and the other gave an ATG a good tussle and both were very good fighters and I'm proud to have met them both.