Thread: OFFICIAL Mark TKO-Fantana pre fight interviews

From the horses mouth themselves. 15 days to go until the big grudge fight dubbed "the slaughter by the water" and ive managed to catch up with both Mark TKO and Fantana. If you want to know what this is all about

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...g-finally.html.

Im sure you`ll agree on reading this that 2010 finally arrives April 3rd...



Hows training going ahead of the big showdown on april 3rd??

TKO:Training been hindered by a football injury sustained a couple of weeks back so its not gone as well as I hoped. I have also just tonight returned to Leeds to resume training after a 3 day bender in London. However although I am not in prime condition – I am in good enough a condition to do a number on fat boy.

Fantana:A lot of people have been making ludicarous remarks about my training for the fight, saying that I am too fat and lazy to get into training again.The truth is, I had a horrific injury which sidelined me for months on end, a really badly grazed man-knee.When I found out John Ruiz was going to be coming over to England, I thought wow, John Ruiz. He is amazing. He reminds me of a younger version of myself, maybe a couple years older. Then TKO called me out for the fight, and my wife said I should get back into training full time again. We don't see each other very much because of this, but I am definately getting into great shape again. THe motivation to see John Ruiz is big enough itself, but to be able to knock lumps out of Mark TKO whilst pretending to be John Ruiz and then seeing John Ruiz and telling him I am the real John Ruiz when I'm not actually really John Ruiz but maybe I am you know that is also motivating. So I would say training is going great.



Theres a lot of bad blood going into the fight, do you think that will help or affect your gameplan??

TKO: The bad blood is good . Its easier to pummel someone you hate

Fantana: Hate is a powerful tool. I have built my whole game plan around hating Mark TKO. The bad blood is just a tool for me to use to realise my goals, which are to punch Mark TKO in the face fucking repeatedly and until that piece of shit falls down. I cannot help but get pumped up and and full of hate when I think of Mark TKO, in fact I will have to headbutt something in a second. I'm so full of hate right now thinking of his smug face and his puny body. He is insane to even think he can fight me.


Fantana/TKO has said a fair few derogatory things about you, has he managed to get under your skin yet??

TKO: It’s not possible to phase me. He has been disrespecting me since day one on the forum (and before that the Naz forum) . Anyway if he did literally get under my skin I would suddenly balloon by about 23 stone so no way am I letting that happen.

Fantana: Mark TKO is a ringworm, he tries to get under peoples skin so he can live there. I have never had ringworm in my life, and I am immune to all diseases. I am a genetic superior, so for something as vile and disgraceful as Mark TKO to get under Fantana's skin, it is not possible.I am mad at Mark TKO, and I will take out these feelings I have been bottling up inside out on him when we come face to face, no pun intended. Calling me a weeble was a step to far I think. I am in complete control. I will go to boiling, 65 degrees, and unleash all kinds of punishment when we meet.


Many people expect the fight to be over very quickly with either camp predicting early wins for either fighter, what are your thoughts??

TKO: Put it this wasy - the fight is scheduled for 7.30pm. I am booked on for a curry in Rusholme at 7.45 – and its a 10 minute taxi ride. While I’m tucking into my lamb rogan josh Fat-tanna will be having the first of his tube fed meals at Manchester Royal. I hope he remembers to sky plus the Haye fight so he can watch it when he gets out of hospital - around November

Fantana: I got dinner reservations at half five, so I cannot be late for that. So if we look at the motivation I have, the need to get to dinner is a basic standard human response. Fantana gotta eat. But on a scientific level, things that can be measured, we just need to check the training here. I train everyday, I live clean, I don't drink. I'm too short to get served alcohol anyway. When people say the believe Mark TKO will win, I'm just thinking that these damn minions will believe anything.



Do you think you`ll be able to put your differences aside after the fight and let bygones be bygones??

TKO: No - he’s a tosser.

Fantana: No this is geniune hatred. I don't talk about hatred, I met Jesus, I learned some stuff. But to want to punch someone in the face over and over, it is hatred. I hate him with every inch of my 5 foot 4 frame, there is no way I can ever like this man. He supports Ipswich. He uses that funny handshake. He looks like Gary Jules. In years to come when they look back at this historic fight, they will say "Wow, that Fantana, great guy, really hated Mark TKO. After Fantana demolished him, he spat in the guys face instead of shaking his hand!"



Whats your prediction for the fight??
TKO: Mark TKO – TKO1 - Fantana

Fantana: I think it is set in stone already, I will knock him out and then eat my dinner. I like my steak bloody, and that is how I like my opponents.But don't let my promise of an early knockout discourage you from turning up to watch the fight, because I am an entertaining man. I will put on a show, and then eat my dinner, and if anyone then wants to hang around with the most entertaining man in history then that is what we can do. It is going to be a great evening and I literally cannot wait for it to all unfold. I will maybe write a book about it "The thriller wearing vanilla" or something like that. Thanks for the questions, and a final message to Mark TKO,............nope I couldn't think of anything to say. No I got it, I will beat not just your body, but crush your very soul. Thanks! Hi Mum!

Mother fucker that IS NOT what I said at all.

Originally Posted by Fantana

Mother fucker that IS NOT what I said at all.

That is word for word, i havent added a single thing to what you told me

I simply had to cut out the crap about lost and how you injured yourself because that alone was 3 emails worth of material

this is exactly what you said in full...........nobody wants to trawl through all that

Hows training going ahead of the big showdown on april 3rd??

Hi hattonthehammer, thanks for talking with me. A lot of people have been making ludicarous remarks about my training for the fight, saying that I am too fat and lazy to get into training again. The truth is, I had a horrific injury which sidelined me for months on end, a really badly grazed man-knee. This happened not long after I got married. So before I got married I was all ripped, shreded even, and I was sending topless, non-gay photos of myself to these women in Singapore. Sometimes I couldn't get the angles right so my Mum would have to take the pictures for me on my cellphone, she was excited about me finding a potential wife. Anyway, one of the women responded positively, most of the others either ignored me or sent me some jealous hate mail, calling me faggit or something like that. So I met this one real cute chick, in real life, and we fell in love instantly after she had two to three bottles of wine, we held hands and everything. Two months after we met we got married, and then a month after that she gave birth to my first kid, a great little guy. While I was making sure no one stole our bin bags from outside the house (my wife always has me make sure no one steals them) I decided to do some jogging and fell down. I crawled my way back into the house, all scuffed up and shit. I thought I was going to die. It took a lot of time to mentally overcome this obsticle, and then once my skin healed some time last year but my man-leg just didn't feel right, which was again a mental issue. When I found out John Ruiz was going to be coming over to England, I thought wow, John Ruiz. He is amazing. He reminds me of a younger version of myself, maybe a couple years older. Then TKO called me out for the fight, and my wife said I should get back into training full time again. We don't see each other very much because of this, but I am definately getting into great shape again. THe motivation to see John Ruiz is big enough itself, but to be able to knock lumps out of Mark TKO whilst pretending to be John Ruiz and then seeing John Ruiz and telling him I am the real John Ruiz when I'm not actually really John Ruiz but maybe I am you know that is also motivating. So I would say training is going great.

Theres a lot of bad blood going into the fight, do you think that will help or affect your gameplan??

Hate is a powerful tool. Have you been watching Lost? John Locke is now a black smoke monster, and he is filled with hate. Everyone is fucking scared of that guy. So for me, personally, I use this hate to my advantage, I have built my whole game plan around hating Mark TKO. The bad blood is just a tool for me to use to realise my goals, which are to punch Mark TKO in the face fucking repeatedly and until that piece of shit falls down. I cannot help but get pumped up and and full of hate when I think of Mark TKO, in fact I will have to headbutt something in a second. I'm so full of hate right now thinking of his smug face and his puny body. He is insane to even think he can fight me. I got his picture on my dart board, but I am pretty shit at darts and I missed and somehow managed to throw a dart into the back of my wifes head. She didn't even realize, it has been in there for three days now. It even stayed on in the shower. In all reality, that is Mark TKO's fault that my wife has a dart sticking out the back of her head, which makes me want to hate him even more, so I do.

TKO has said a fair few derogatory things about you, has he managed to get under your skin yet??

Mark TKO is a ringworm, he tries to get under peoples skin so he can live there. I have never had ringworm in my life, and I am immune to all diseases. I am a genetic superior, so for something as vile and disgraceful as Mark TKO to get under Fantana's skin, it is not possible. God would not allow it, it goes against everything he stands for. Can you imagine someone as handsome as my fineself with some sort of disgusting entity under my skin? Of course not, there are metaphysical laws against this type of thing. I am mad at Mark TKO, and I will take out these feelings I have been bottling up inside out on him when we come face to face, no pun intended. Calling me a weeble was a step to far I think. I had bad childhood memories of getting smack in the face by a Donald Duck weeble, it gave me my first nosebleed. I was young at the time, 15, and my defense wasn't what it is today. I would go as far to say as Mark TKO is a bully, and he talks to much. I talk a lot, but people like to hear me talk so I don't talk to much you see. Example, on Fifa 10, I had 40 or so people join my club just to listen to me talk whilst we played. As soon as I stopped going on, people left. So as far as I am concerned, he can keep making remarks, keep saying whatever it is he wants to say, because I am just simmering right now, because I am in complete control. I will go to boiling, 65 degrees, and unleash all kinds of punishment when we meet. On him, I mean, I'm not going to go and kill some helpess passers by. I am a righteous man.

Many people expect the fight to be over very quickly with either camp predicting early wins for either fighter, what are your thoughts??

I got dinner reservations at half five, so I cannot be late for that. So if we look at the motivation I have, the need to get to dinner is a basic standard human response. Fantana gotta eat. But on a scientific level, things that can be measured, we just need to check the training here. I train everyday, I live clean, I don't drink. I'm too short to get served alcohol anyway and I don't carry ID because I know too much and the government is trying to murder me, ain't no comming back from that they will be cutting my wrists open vertically. Or I could end up like Gary Webb, who was exposing some CIA drug trafficking and he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, twice. But when people say the believe Mark TKO will win, I'm just thinking that these damn minions will believe anything. 9/11 was carried out by Osama bin Laden, the towers fell like that due to fire, we're invading countries to give them democracy because we care for these people. So I don't care what he says, or who agrees with him, because I know that I will beat him.

Do you think you`ll be able to put your differences aside after the fight and let bygones be bygones??

No. Does Captain Birdseye get on with Colonel Sanders? Of course not! They hate each other to this day, even though there are rumours they are both dead or don't exist. Does Enki and Enlil get on? No. This is not one of those fake rivalries, where you know these two guys say "Hey America, we don't like each other, we stand for different things" And then actually, you know, they go to Bohemian Grove together, they're cousins, they both belong to the same club. They just put on a show, but this is geniune hatred. I don't talk about hatred, I met Jesus, I learned some stuff. But to want to punch someone in the face over and over, it is hatred. I hate him with every inch of my 5 foot 4 frame, there is no way I can ever like this man. He supports Ipswhich. He uses that funny handshake. He looks like Gary Jules. In years to come when they look back at this historic fight, they will say "Wow, that Fantana, great guy, really hated Mark TKO. After Fantana demolished him, he spat in the guys face instead of shaking his hand!"

Whats your prediction for the fight??

I think it is set in stone already, I will knock him out and then eat my dinner. I like my steak bloody, and that is how I like my opponents. I will hit him so hard folks in the crowd will say "Damn! He fell quicker than free fall speed! It is like a controlled demolition of pre-planted explosives!" Then someone will shout "No it was the fire!" But don't let my promise of an early knockout discourage you from turning up to watch the fight, because I am an entertaining man. I will put on a show, and then eat my dinner, and if anyone then wants to hang around with the most entertaining man in history then that is what we can do. We can become friends and you can join the John Ruiz group I am making. So far it is just me and my wife in it. Then we can celebrate John Ruiz winning the world heavyweight title for the third time. It is going to be a great evening and I literally cannot wait for it to all unfold. I will maybe write a book about it "The thriller wearing vanilla" or something like that. Thanks for the questions, and a final message to Mark TKO,............nope I couldn't think of anything to say. No I got it, I will beat not just your body, but crush your very soul. Thanks! Hi Mum![/quote]

Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

Originally Posted by Fantana

Mother fucker that IS NOT what I said at all.

That is word for word, i havent added a single thing to what you told me

I simply had to cut out the crap about lost and how you injured yourself because that alone was 3 emails worth of material

this is exactly what you said in full...........nobody wants to trawl through all that

Hows training going ahead of the big showdown on april 3rd??

Hi hattonthehammer, thanks for talking with me. A lot of people have been making ludicarous remarks about my training for the fight, saying that I am too fat and lazy to get into training again. The truth is, I had a horrific injury which sidelined me for months on end, a really badly grazed man-knee. This happened not long after I got married. So before I got married I was all ripped, shreded even, and I was sending topless, non-gay photos of myself to these women in Singapore. Sometimes I couldn't get the angles right so my Mum would have to take the pictures for me on my cellphone, she was excited about me finding a potential wife. Anyway, one of the women responded positively, most of the others either ignored me or sent me some jealous hate mail, calling me faggit or something like that. So I met this one real cute chick, in real life, and we fell in love instantly after she had two to three bottles of wine, we held hands and everything. Two months after we met we got married, and then a month after that she gave birth to my first kid, a great little guy. While I was making sure no one stole our bin bags from outside the house (my wife always has me make sure no one steals them) I decided to do some jogging and fell down. I crawled my way back into the house, all scuffed up and shit. I thought I was going to die. It took a lot of time to mentally overcome this obsticle, and then once my skin healed some time last year but my man-leg just didn't feel right, which was again a mental issue. When I found out John Ruiz was going to be coming over to England, I thought wow, John Ruiz. He is amazing. He reminds me of a younger version of myself, maybe a couple years older. Then TKO called me out for the fight, and my wife said I should get back into training full time again. We don't see each other very much because of this, but I am definately getting into great shape again. THe motivation to see John Ruiz is big enough itself, but to be able to knock lumps out of Mark TKO whilst pretending to be John Ruiz and then seeing John Ruiz and telling him I am the real John Ruiz when I'm not actually really John Ruiz but maybe I am you know that is also motivating. So I would say training is going great.

Theres a lot of bad blood going into the fight, do you think that will help or affect your gameplan??

Hate is a powerful tool. Have you been watching Lost? John Locke is now a black smoke monster, and he is filled with hate. Everyone is fucking scared of that guy. So for me, personally, I use this hate to my advantage, I have built my whole game plan around hating Mark TKO. The bad blood is just a tool for me to use to realise my goals, which are to punch Mark TKO in the face fucking repeatedly and until that piece of shit falls down. I cannot help but get pumped up and and full of hate when I think of Mark TKO, in fact I will have to headbutt something in a second. I'm so full of hate right now thinking of his smug face and his puny body. He is insane to even think he can fight me. I got his picture on my dart board, but I am pretty shit at darts and I missed and somehow managed to throw a dart into the back of my wifes head. She didn't even realize, it has been in there for three days now. It even stayed on in the shower. In all reality, that is Mark TKO's fault that my wife has a dart sticking out the back of her head, which makes me want to hate him even more, so I do.

TKO has said a fair few derogatory things about you, has he managed to get under your skin yet??

Mark TKO is a ringworm, he tries to get under peoples skin so he can live there. I have never had ringworm in my life, and I am immune to all diseases. I am a genetic superior, so for something as vile and disgraceful as Mark TKO to get under Fantana's skin, it is not possible. God would not allow it, it goes against everything he stands for. Can you imagine someone as handsome as my fineself with some sort of disgusting entity under my skin? Of course not, there are metaphysical laws against this type of thing. I am mad at Mark TKO, and I will take out these feelings I have been bottling up inside out on him when we come face to face, no pun intended. Calling me a weeble was a step to far I think. I had bad childhood memories of getting smack in the face by a Donald Duck weeble, it gave me my first nosebleed. I was young at the time, 15, and my defense wasn't what it is today. I would go as far to say as Mark TKO is a bully, and he talks to much. I talk a lot, but people like to hear me talk so I don't talk to much you see. Example, on Fifa 10, I had 40 or so people join my club just to listen to me talk whilst we played. As soon as I stopped going on, people left. So as far as I am concerned, he can keep making remarks, keep saying whatever it is he wants to say, because I am just simmering right now, because I am in complete control. I will go to boiling, 65 degrees, and unleash all kinds of punishment when we meet. On him, I mean, I'm not going to go and kill some helpess passers by. I am a righteous man.

Many people expect the fight to be over very quickly with either camp predicting early wins for either fighter, what are your thoughts??

I got dinner reservations at half five, so I cannot be late for that. So if we look at the motivation I have, the need to get to dinner is a basic standard human response. Fantana gotta eat. But on a scientific level, things that can be measured, we just need to check the training here. I train everyday, I live clean, I don't drink. I'm too short to get served alcohol anyway and I don't carry ID because I know too much and the government is trying to murder me, ain't no comming back from that they will be cutting my wrists open vertically. Or I could end up like Gary Webb, who was exposing some CIA drug trafficking and he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, twice. But when people say the believe Mark TKO will win, I'm just thinking that these damn minions will believe anything. 9/11 was carried out by Osama bin Laden, the towers fell like that due to fire, we're invading countries to give them democracy because we care for these people. So I don't care what he says, or who agrees with him, because I know that I will beat him.

Do you think you`ll be able to put your differences aside after the fight and let bygones be bygones??

No. Does Captain Birdseye get on with Colonel Sanders? Of course not! They hate each other to this day, even though there are rumours they are both dead or don't exist. Does Enki and Enlil get on? No. This is not one of those fake rivalries, where you know these two guys say "Hey America, we don't like each other, we stand for different things" And then actually, you know, they go to Bohemian Grove together, they're cousins, they both belong to the same club. They just put on a show, but this is geniune hatred. I don't talk about hatred, I met Jesus, I learned some stuff. But to want to punch someone in the face over and over, it is hatred. I hate him with every inch of my 5 foot 4 frame, there is no way I can ever like this man. He supports Ipswhich. He uses that funny handshake. He looks like Gary Jules. In years to come when they look back at this historic fight, they will say "Wow, that Fantana, great guy, really hated Mark TKO. After Fantana demolished him, he spat in the guys face instead of shaking his hand!"

Whats your prediction for the fight??

I think it is set in stone already, I will knock him out and then eat my dinner. I like my steak bloody, and that is how I like my opponents. I will hit him so hard folks in the crowd will say "Damn! He fell quicker than free fall speed! It is like a controlled demolition of pre-planted explosives!" Then someone will shout "No it was the fire!" But don't let my promise of an early knockout discourage you from turning up to watch the fight, because I am an entertaining man. I will put on a show, and then eat my dinner, and if anyone then wants to hang around with the most entertaining man in history then that is what we can do. We can become friends and you can join the John Ruiz group I am making. So far it is just me and my wife in it. Then we can celebrate John Ruiz winning the world heavyweight title for the third time. It is going to be a great evening and I literally cannot wait for it to all unfold. I will maybe write a book about it "The thriller wearing vanilla" or something like that. Thanks for the questions, and a final message to Mark TKO,............nope I couldn't think of anything to say. No I got it, I will beat not just your body, but crush your very soul. Thanks! Hi Mum!

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WTF is this long post about, Im not reading all of that.

End of the day FANTANA WILL BEAT MARK TKO, and you cannot edit the outcome of that fight.

WTF is wrong with you fantana?

You had a pop at me for not posting the full interview and then when i did you had another pop at me claiming its too long a read

No wonder TKO feels the way he does about you, very strange individual

You already said you pick Mark TKO to win, in the other thread. This is not an objective thread, this is a pro Mark TKO thread, and you are the ring leader.

I feel, strongly, that I am not just going up against Mark TKO, I feel that I am going up against a tyrade of anti-Fantana posts, an agenda against my fine self.

When it comes down to it, it will just be Mark TKO against me. Your obvious ploy to rattle me has only ensured I will be more viscious with my punches, more venomous with my combination punches, and laser like with my prescision. I will prevail.

This situation is just like what Lennox Lewis had to endure in his career against Don King and Hasim Rahman. Between Mark TKO and myself, this is personal. I really hate the guy.

If your going to put a rag in front of a bull, be ready for the charge.




P.S Is there anyway we can put what I just said into the original interview? Esp the last line.

Originally Posted by Fantana

You already said you pick Mark TKO to win, in the other thread. This is not an objective thread, this is a pro Mark TKO thread, and you are the ring leader.

I feel, strongly, that I am not just going up against Mark TKO, I feel that I am going up against a tyrade of anti-Fantana posts, an agenda against my fine self.

When it comes down to it, it will just be Mark TKO against me. Your obvious ploy to rattle me has only ensured I will be more viscious with my punches, more venomous with my combination punches, and laser like with my prescision. I will prevail.

This situation is just like what Lennox Lewis had to endure in his career against Don King and Hasim Rahman. Between Mark TKO and myself, this is personal. I really hate the guy.

If your going to put a rag in front of a bull, be ready for the charge.




P.S Is there anyway we can put what I just said into the original interview? Esp the last line.

Mate ive really got no preference between either of you two

Its all for a good cause and win or lose you both deserve a round of applause for doing this

I'm going with Mark TKO because even when laying down he looks taller than Fantana, but with a good pair of platforms it might well become a pick 'em fight. And if you get some disco music then you just don't know how it will affect them. Nah, maybe I'm still not sure.

Originally Posted by hattonthehammer

Mate ive really got no preference between either of you two

Its all for a good cause and win or lose you both deserve a round of applause for doing this

Thanks, I appreciate that, in a non-gay way.

Originally Posted by miles

I'm going with Mark TKO because even when laying down he looks taller than Fantana, but with a good pair of platforms it might well become a pick 'em fight. And if you get some disco music then you just don't know how it will affect them. Nah, maybe I'm still not sure.

Height definately will not be a factor in this fight. I will be fighting on the inside, nullyfying the huge reach and height advantage, and ensuring that my fleshy man-stomach is protected by being up close and personal.

I have got the skills to pay the bills. Although not literally my wife takes care of most of the bills.

You have convinced me Fantana, you will win.

Fantana you crack me up. Your response to Hammer posting your replies in full was comic genius. For that reason alone I'm picking you, and more importantly...I'm backing you.

If I was a betting man I would bet on Fantana

....but if I was a smart man I would bet on me

Fantana seems way too caught up in the pre-fight drama. He seems like he's already distracted by the bright lights of the Manchester Canal. In contrast Mark TKO seems fully focused on the job at hand. Unlike the fight between my charge, hattonthehammer, & Big H (May 15th - buy your tickets direct from www.FrankWankerTV.com), I think this will actually be a vaguely competitive fight, but that Mark TKO's focus will carry him to a comfortable lead & a late stoppage. I just get the impression from their pre-fight antics that Mark TKO is really the more focused on the job at hand, whilst Fantana seems worked up. Let's just hope he doesn't embarass himself & his hero Sir John Ruiz OBE.