Do any of you posters actually go the fights

It is Luis Ramos

 

Who fought on that card?

I think the last time i went to the Olympic was when Genaro beat Famoso Hernandez and Floyd fought on the undercard, also Brewster fought on that one too.

Last fight in LA i went to was the Forbes,Delahoya fight at the Home depot center.

 

I don't really recall... one of my friends co-promoted some fight in Ontario involving a female boxer from Peru...he was supposed to comp me a few tickets but I never got them. The event was a dud.... that was like 2 months ago.

If I ever get tickets for an event I will be sure to hook you up.

 

:good Thanks that would be cool,i think thats the Doubletree or something like that (in Ontario)

I only live like 5 miles from Hacienda Hts! Live about 1 mile north of the West Covina Plaza.

 

I coach boxing 2-3 nights a week and this time of the year spend Saturday and Sundays all day judging and doing corner work.
The last thing I want to do most times is go to a poor live pro show and top-class shows are a bit rare in Ireland. Usually catch one show a year.

 

To be honest, I've never been to one fight. I've been a big follower of Boxing for 2 years now and everyone says it's nothing like Live. I really want to go!

 

Your mention of Tommy and Donnie LaLonde, B, brings a big grin before my morning coffee -- SO MANY HYSTERICAL MEMORIES!

For those not really familiar with Tommy, he’s the closest thing to Popeye Doyle from the “FRENCH CONNECTION;” a larger-than-life, profane, mean as a junk-yard dog, opinionated, impatient, very loud, crude, brutally honest, very loyal, former undercover cop, and laugh riot 24-hours-a-day. Being with his family is like an episode of the Osbournes.

An author put it best, describing his dad: "My father lived his life at the top of his lungs"...That's Tommy Gallagher.

When we had our team in Queens, Tommy was training Lalonde when he defended his light heavy title at Ceasar's Palace in Vegas against Sugar Ray Leonard. Tommy asked my wife 'n I to join him.

Because Lalonde was the headliner, everybody in his entourage was given special treatment by the management of the hotel.

One evening, I was in the lobby with Tommy, his family 'n some of our neighborhood friends. A very official looking guy in a three-piece suit came over: "Good evening, Mr. Gallagher. Speaking for the management of the hotel, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you and all of your friends. Now, If you'll follow me, I'll take you to be seated at the Pointer Sisters’ show."

Tommy looked at me. His voice reverberating through the lobby: "WHO IS THIS HALF-A-***?”

When we went to the Pointer Sisters’ show, the room was a semi-circle of tiered wooden benches – pews. Nobody had their own table. Everybody was bunched together.

We were a party of about 15, but all around us were families looking like they just stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Tommy was in top form, cracking everybody up with one story after another. Somebody asked him: "Tommy did you ever fight out of the country as an amateur?"

As if he was trying to be heard over gym noise, Tommy shouted, "I was a young Irish Catholic kid and I never was no place. They asked me to fight for the U.S. team in Spain. So, when I got to Spain, I walked around…and there was, like, this little circus."

"There was a sign on one of the cages, and somebody told me it said: Anybody that could last a round with the bear would get $50. I never seen that much money...or a bear."

"So, I looked in the cage, and there's this big mop of fur on the floor. I figure: No problem; I'll knock this thing out."

"So, when I turned around to tell the guy I wanted to do it, the bear REACHED THROUGH THE BARS AND TRIED TO **** ME…IT’S A GOOD THING I WAS WEAR'N SHORTS!"

I fell on the floor, doubled over with laughter.

The families were fleeing in horror.

 

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Great Story,

I was in his company one day in the gym and a guy walks in that we knew, The guy had a bad case of coffee and cigar breath and Tommy while talking to him looks at the bottom of his shoe and says" did somebody step on ****" My stomach was rumbling with laughter and I burst out laughing. You had to see the look on the guys face.