What Famous Fighters Have You Met?

you got that on video ??

 

No can't say I have.

 

Too bad......

 

Rocky Marciano at The Brockton Fair......
Marvin Hagler in Brockton........
Willie Pep in Providence......
Jake LaMotta in Brockton.....
Carmine Basilio in Boston.....
Tony DeMarco in Boston.....
Paul Pender in Boston...
Jack Dempsey at his NYC restaurant.....
Bob Foster in Springfield Mass....
Sonny Liston in Plymouth Mass......

 

1980 Jersey Joe Walcott handed out Golden Glove awards. Even in his suit Joe looked fight ready. I walked up to Aaron Pryor before he fought D. Myers in non-title fight and he talked to me like we were life long friends. So Cool!! 1982 was introduced to Sugar George Costner. Training in New Jersey I used to hold Ritchie Kates legs down for him while he did sit-ups (LOL) Watched Livingston Bramble warm up in his locker room before going out to fight Gaetan Hart. Shook Emmanuel Stewards hand shortly after Mike McCallum beat my friend Tony Suero. Buster Douglas and his father Bill. Hilmer Kenty (sparred w/his stepbrother Forest Winchester) WBO welter Champ Manning Galloway (was a sparring partner) Vonzell Johnson (only losses were to Spinks, Saad and Celestine) 1984 Alexis Arguello, thanks to Jerry Page. 1985 Beau Jack lived in the gym I was training out of. Doug DeWitt was training in same gym. My sparring partner Jakey Winters was the guy Evander bit!(LOL) 1991 Ricky Parkey. 2003 Bernard Hopkins.

 

Holyfield,Golota,Trinidad,McGirt,Cooney,Whitaker,Moorer,Wepner,Lamotta,Archer,friends with Marcianos brother( he's 1/2 famous)Teddy Atlas,Jameel McCline,Gatti........Basically ,i used to box out of Jersey City and they all came in at one point or another

 

I knew a guy who asked Jerry Quarry if boxing was fixed. Quarry was not amused.

 

I used to see kirkland laing a lot in the early 90's, as he used to drink in a pub near where I lived. A totally nice guy, down to earth would play pool and drink with everyone. Sad to see how he ended up but what a gentleman. Also know charlie magri (ex flyweight champ) who is nice one minute and can be a moody ****er the next.

Have met john conteh who is a diamond, a totally cool guy, Frank Bruno who was rude and ignorant (probably due to his unknown illness at the time) and I know James Batten quite well (ex british middleweight champ, fought Duran) another lovely fellow.

 

Chris Eubank, Ken Buchanan, Barry McGuigan, Scott Dixon, Paul Weir, Michael Gomez, Craig Docherty.

 

Earnie Shavers while he was working on the door in Liverpool.

Fine gentleman but I would not argue with him.

 

Hopkins at London Publishing in Ft. Wash.PA. Where Ring mag has its office.
I used to train at Fraziers many yrs ago & met. Joe & Marvis,M.Spinks,
M.Blocker,M.Taylor & J.Duplesis. All were very Kool people.

 

Larry Holmes every week....
His brother Mark Holmes, he wasn't exactly famous, but he was ranked #1 middleweight contender, but got KO'd for a title. Other than that, Ive met guys that fought some good fighters. Like Angel Cruz, he fought Saul Mambi and Howard Davis Jr. I beleive he beat Mambi, but lost a split decision to Davis.

 

Roy Jones Jr. while he was light-heavyweight champ - at a junior college basketball game in Pensacola, where my (ex-) wife taught. I just walked up to him, shook hands and asked if he'd hold my baby son while I took a photo. He was very cool, friendly. No big posse, bodyguards or anything. Despite his public posturing on TV, when he's at home in Pensacola he's laid back. He has big, soft hands, a basketball player's hands more than a boxer's.

I've lived in Fort Worth for decades and was an amateur boxer here as a teenager. A couple of my amateur teammates went on to become pro world champs: Gene Hatcher, Bruce Curry. I also remember Bruce's younger half-brother, Donald, from when he was around 12 years old. Cute kid, fantastic amateur boxer. Turned out to be a pretty good pro too.

My brother and I were ringside when Hatcher defended his light-welter title against Ubaldo Sacco in Fort Worth and visited Gene afterward. I don't think he remembered me from our amateur days, but then again he'd just been through 15 brutal rounds with Sacco.

Lessee, who else... I met Steve Cruz (former featherweight champ, beat Barry McGuigan); Paulie Ayala. I watched Frankie Warren in the Golden Gloves (the Corpus Christi Frank Warren, not the UK promoter); Frankie went on to split a pair of decisions with Buddy McGirt as a pro. Ronnie Shields as an amateur.

Aww, heck, I can't remember all of 'em. If you go to amateur and pro fights in a big boxing town like Fort Worth, San Antonio, Philly, etc., there are always opportunities to meet top fighters who are just hanging out or being introduced pre-fight.

I am a bigtime Fort Worth boxing nuthugger and proud of it.

 

gene hatcher ,boom boom mancini,donald curry,lynn ball,ed too tall jones does that even count,and of course my father nick wells sr.and i know there were more me being so young at the time my father im sure introduced me to many more but those are the ones i remember.