Famous boxers, boxing people that you met.

Thanku. Appreciate the response. Sounds like a class act all around.

 

Tony The Tiger Lopez. He was very friendly down to Earth type of guy.

Michael Moorer was just cold. Dark sunglasses, didn't want to interact with the fans.

 

I met Armando Muniz many times at the fights over the years; I'm sitting here looking at a World Boxing Hall of Fame business card he gave me. He was my mother's second to last favorite fighter (Chacon was last) and my first.

Met Carlos Palomino many times as well and that was cool because I have spent a lot of time in front of a heavy bag pretending to be Carlos. Not as much as I pretended to be Arguello, but a lot.

I had a chance to meet Little Red Lopez but didn't do it because I was afraid I would faint. Not "feint" like Napoles, but "faint", like a girl.

I have met Yori Boy Campos three times. First, before the Trinidad fight when he was young and cocky and tried to make people pay $5 to speak to him. Second, when I had a guy spar with him in 04. Last, just before his last fight, when he was very humble and gracious.

At a public workout for the card when Paez fought Genaro Hernandez and Louie Espinoza fought Cobrita Gonzalez I saw both Trinidad and Campos; no way would you pick Trinidad to win if it hadn't already happened. Trinidad looked like a 14 year old kid while Campos looked like a barrel chested leg breaker.

Chuck Bodak was a good person. When I first started teaching boxing I would pick his brain every time I saw him, tell him what I was working on and how I was going about it. At the aforementioned workout he met my first fighter and was very gracious.

Richie and Superfly Sandoval many times, watched the first Czyz/Williams fight with them. Mike Weaver many times, the last sitting next to him during an amateur event in 99.