Sugar Ray Leonard Dinner ESB announcement

cheers Jeff

 

Just literally in the door, still in party mode, shower n off out ......will post up ma rundown of the evening later if anyone wants.


WHAT a night !!!!!!!




:good:good:good:good:good

 

Well....where do i begin

As mentioned it was taken on short notice so off i trumbled to Parkhead minus ma mates or brothers then kept reminding maself why i was going
Met Kev and Jeff when i fired in and i must say, it was impressive from the outset, the whole setup. Grabbed a beer and had a mosey around, glad i wore ma suit etc then found maself speaking to a guy that had seen it in the paper that afternoon and rocked up ASAP.

From what i can remember he said he was an ex scottish champ back in the day and fought the english champ at the time that had beat Hearns as an amatuer. Forgot his name but Billy N came over to say hello so he could shed some light on it ( pony tail, Steven Seagal type bloke )

Next, was photo time with the man himself, not before grabbing a pic and a chat with Kenny Ando talking injuries and stuff, top bloke and fine missus Naturally i told SRL what a delight it was for him to be meeting the Hairy as we had a wee cuddle and pose. All thoughts of asking him for a staredown pic/pose went out the window i admit

Anyways, at the Kevin Maree table, i had the good fortune to be sitting next to Dave "The Gypsy" Douglas and one of his fighters, Paddy Pollock and a few others, a boy that trains under Peter Harrison and ..... an up and coming MC....Greg Houston.

All i can say is, what storys and banter that was flying around and i felt absolutely overwhelmed to be sitting with them, never mind waiting on SRL........the texts and calls were flying in so my apologys for the multi msg randomley bad spelt replys

Having ma dinner i couldnt help but smile seeing Jeff etc racing around regarding the promotion and auction items " fark i got it easys here" i thought......and then THE MAN himself spoke. Btw, that auctioneer MC guy sounded hella Buncey if you werent to look at him, bit freaky.

The way SRL spoke and delivered his answers regarding the questions was basically............SMOOTH !!! Sure he has done this a few times am sure but it just seemed so surreal i guess.Hard to explain in words maybe.Talking about Tommy and the phone calls was funny as fark, cheeky but obviously so respectful.

After THE MAN had finished with the Q and A i talked a wee bit with Ricky Burns regarding Mitchell, cpl pics with with him and Anderson. Spoke with John Simpson etc

Absolute gentlemen.

Met Gary Jacobs, grabbed a pic, he was off to the pisser i think so didnt go busting out the Sweet Pea banter. Few pics and hellos with others, was well sound.

So basically it was an absolute brainfry for me and finding the Celtic groundsmen taking the Euro cup replica out of the stadium for cleaning or whatever, i traded ringtones for a cpl pics ( strange i know ) They drew the line at me getting pics,standing and pulling a whizz in it, pretending of course.

Greg Houston the MC guy and Peter Harrisons fighter then kindly took me into the city to ma brothers club where i naturally repaid in vodka and cranberryjuice ( Harrisons boy, forgot his name ) and asked any girl/guy " are you ESB ?" before having any regard at all for them for the next 5 hours !!!
It served me well.

Weegi birds love the ESB

Forgot a lot but hey ...... is all good.

Jeff T , Kevin Maree, as said earlier.....thankyou :thumbsup

Everyone i met, be it fighters, ex fighters, bar girls , doormen etc...were absolutely top class :good

Still wondering if i won the raffle.........

 

****ing jealous!!!!!!!!!!

 

Pretty **** night then if you didn't win the raffle :-(































Only kidding :good

 

****sake im gutted i missed it

 

Quality

 

Did you pay for your ticket Hairy ? I still wanna know who won ? And wheres Jeff's write up ?

 

Never thought typing shyte on the net would............... " bestow upon me such riches "

 

Nah man i payed for ma ticket, yours maybe won, not sure, now you mention it......i dunno where mine is and i left ma laminated SRL menus in ma bro's dj box, ****SAKE.

Aye, on a serious note, Jeff Thomas does some damn fine writeups, he dosent do many though.

If you have seen them, you will know what i mean.

Dunky asked him for HIS interpretation regarding a Gomez bill once......and by **** he got it, boy has some good story skills.

Was an OWNAGE tbh, serious.
'
My "writeup" was more a, i will quickly attempt a "went , did, saw "......not a serious piece, BANZAI'D ....as is evident

 

Ha Ha was still a good post to read none the less :good

 

Thanks, HH, GREAT read. :good:good Looking forward to hearing what Jeff has to say as well.