Which ATG Fighters Have You Met?

You said he came across as a nice guy, didn't you?

 

Yeah, very much so. Not sure if it's the norm but he was just hanging around after the show speaking to regular people for a while.

 

He would blow people off and wanted everyone to bow down before him. He didn't sign 1 autograph that I saw, and the only person he did pay attention to was a pretty white woman, who gave him a water bottle and he was gone. When I asked him to sign my autograph book, he looked me dead in the eye, put his hand on my shoulder and said "I'll be right back and sign, buddy." he walked off either to get in a golf cart or to get in a car in the parking lot, but that was the last time I ever saw him.

 

:shock:

onyl person with a chance of beating that is JG

is he a nice guy?

is he a bouncer in Liverpool now?



i have spoke to Tony Jeffries and Tony Bellew on the phone


and met Paul Butlin and Lee McAllister

 

I have always heard Haye is a good guy outside of the ring...apart from when promoting certain fights. :yep

 

Don't know these are "ATG's" but I had the pleasure of meeting Ike Williams years ago....very nice guy somewhat sad in that he looked totally broke. Floyd Patterson was a pleasure meeting as well, we talked over his book "Victory over Myself". Roberto Duran and I chatted up for quite a while (thru an interpreter)...Ray Leonard was very intense (he was training for Lalonde), Tommy Hearns (very nice guy), the great J.C.C. (actually had a chance to train with him for a few days at G.G.'s in Vegas), Terry Norris (all business), Jorge Paez (we watched in amazement as he removed yet another shirt after each round of sparring....I counted eight), "Irish" Leroy Haley, Lonnie Smith, Michael Nunn (spent the night running thru the club looking for his $3 million purse check which he'd lost), Orlando Canizales, (sp?), T. Morrison (I was surprised at how smart he was), Roger Mayweather (went a few rounds with him, man, for a little guy he could hit), Ron Lyle (mean ass mofo)....

 

Yeah, I've met Earnie a couple of times working on the door at Yates in Leverpool. He was really nice, seemed flatterd tht somebody had recognised him lol signed the shirt i was wearing for me. I was well happy haha:good

 

Lyle was a nice guy when I saw him. Orlando Canizales is a truly humble and friendly human being. His brother is the exact same way.

 

Perhaps I caught Ron on a bad day...we all have 'em. Couldn't agree more about Orlando he was very nice even explained to me why he preferred doing his roadwork at night as opposed to morning....never met Gaby.

 

Harry Greb and Young Griffo ,both **** heads.

 

Some great encounters, here. Hope Michael Nunn found that check, or at least was able to stop payment on it before it turned into somebody else's lottery check. Patterson was the gentleman he seemed to be? Jorge Paez, what a character, huh?

 

Harry Greb? How'd that go down. Interesting...

 

I believe he did or Dan Gossen got him another....Patterson was the epitome of a gentleman and meeting him was a total honor. Paez was nuts, a laugh-a-minute kinda guy and I watched him take apart Julio Cesar Vasquez (then a ranked '54 pounder) with ease in a sparring session - a few days later (Paez) found unconscious in the steam room of the Vegas Hilton.

 

Whatever happened to Paez? That's a book, right?

 

Believe it or not, he has a masonry-type business in Vegas. I believe he also gives private boxing lessons. I saw an ad for both in Vegas last year.