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Half inspired by Cut Me Micks impressive sig pics, I just wondered of the boxers you have met (if any) who was the nicest to speak to?
I've only ever met Hatton, that was in the Irish bar in New York New York in Vegas. He was a a nice guy, seemed a little rushed with everyone wanting pics/sigs etc but nice guy all the same...
I've only met 3 big name fighters. Holyfield, Hatton, and Haye.
I've met domestic fighters such as Paul Smith and Tony Dodson and also Beijing Olympic medalist David Price.
David Haye was without doubt the nicest of them. Took the time to sign everything and let me ask him all the questions I wanted. Hatton was great also.
All the boxers I have met in Oz have been nice. (Way tooo many to name)
Pro and Am
Definitely David Haye, Talkative and could have a laugh.
Mike Tyson
Junior Witter as it happens.
Although i think he's the only one i've ever met.
Nice guy all the same.
You think he's the only one you've ever met ;D. You must be drunk a lot of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ono
All the ones Ive met were well mannered . Probably the only guy who seemed abit offish was Robin Reid and thats only cuz he couldnt get a moments break at the time so he appeared abit annoyed.
Our main man FRANK BRUNO back in the day!A sound man who had time to chat and sign autographs.Cheers Big Frank;)
Johnny Tapia without a doubt and the worst Tommy Hearns.
Surprisingly it was probably James Toney who I got along great with. All the big name people I've met have been much older or not interested in doing anything they weren't paid to do. Toney is a character though and was great fun to be with.
Tapia
Tim Witherspoon. He use come in the gym with his family and speak to everybody and help you out with your training and movitvate you to keep working hard
When/how did you meet Toney?Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
He was at a weigh in for an Andre Ward fight, Ward is promoted by Goosen as is Toney so he was there. It was the day after the report came out that he was going to face Jirov in a rematch so I interviewed him to find out, he had no idea that report was out there. But he was just so funny, while we were interviewing he walked to the hotel gift store and bought a bunch of candy bars and was hardly serious at all, hilarious. I actually have the audio on my old computer I think. He was going off on all these tangents and would stray so far from the subject and just scream at the top of his lungs all the other people in the lobby staying out the hotel kept staring thinking he was a madman. Then the next night they had his fights on in the media room and he was commentating his own fights it was pretty funny.
Also I should say as far as the nicest boxers, Andre Ward is genuinely a nice guy but he is pretty shy so he's hard to get words out of sometimes but he's a very respectful, well mannered guy who isn't flashy in the least unlike nearly every other fighter I've ever met.
That is really cool. You should post the audio on one of the other boards if you can find it.Quote:
Originally Posted by amat
I would say they've all been cool to one degree or another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conrad
Sometimes people forget these dudes can't possibly stop for every single person so whenever they turn someone down or walk past them people say well he's an ass.
At Rafa-Izzy III, JCC Sr. turned me down with on autograph on a glove.
But he's still one of my favs.
Better question is,whats the nicest promoter youve ever talked to. The boxers are generally pretty cool
Ricky hatton is a nice guy.
RJJ was nice too.
I met Razor Ruddock years ago after a fight he had in my home town. He almost had a clowning personality.
He signed some hot chicks tits while wearing the biggest grin.
Over the years I've met many many fighters and become friends with many of them Most of them were nice in fact all but one were great guys. The only "bad guy" was Riddick Bowe a few years ago.
He was at a black tie fight card in Dallas as a guest of honor. It was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the marine color guard were there . All he did was hang with them ignoring fans wanting autographs. It wasnt long after that he had his short career as a marine ROFL he didnt like being shouted at so he bought himself out
Shannon Briggs & joe Calzaghe defo
Chad Dawson and felix trinidad.
I can honestly say Ive never met one I didnt like once I got to know them. They are special People. ;D
I really liked John Mugabi. I met him about 3 years ago, and i asked him if he thought in the early rounds he was beating Hagler. He let out an enormous laugh and just said he knew he was tiring more than Hagler as the rounds went by.
Didnt really think too much of Alan Minter. Was saying he could whip anybody around nowadays and just being a bit aloof.
Did Trinidad speak English to you? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mar
I met Terri Norris in a hamburger place in Southern California called In-N-Out Burgers. I saw him and thought that he looked like Terri Norris but as I saw him closer I noticed a tatoo on his neck with two boxing gloves and below that it said "Champion" so yeah, that was some sort of confirmation :). I pat his shoulder and when he turned around I stretched my hand. Had a good laugh remembering his fight againts Santana. He got his burger and left.
mark breland/david reid
George Foreman.
Not many boxers i have met that have been dicks to be honest, but the best company were:
Micheal Gomez (Bit of a jack the lad but heart of gold lovely bloke)
Micheal Jennings
Robin Reid
Matthew Hall
Met and spoke to these guys a few times and just top down to earth guys.
Not very well known but Lanardo Tyner was almost like a guy I went to school with. I saw him at a weigh-in and noted his opponent looked soft around the middle. After, he came over to the food table and had a slice of pizza and I mentioned this to him and he just said, "Then that's where we're going!" and lo and behold, he took him out with a body shot.
Ronald Hearns was okay. Once I met him at an event where he was just watching a fight and one time he was training. He gave me an interview at the event and after we were two seats away from one another and he asked me what I thought about Pavlik-Taylor (he was going to be on the undercard). When he was at the gym I get the feeling the only thing he wanted to do was train.
Tommy Hearns I only met for a sec and he was friendly enough. Gave me his number for an interview and I promptly lost it.
Cornelius Bundrage, meh. First time I saw him I had no idea who he was. But enough people passed by speaking to him that I got an idea he was a fighter. Then the announcer said who he was as he'd just been on the Contender II and I asked him for his number. He took mine instead, eyeing me suspiciously and never called. I met him again at a charity boxing event and my nephew was with me, all of a sudden deciding he wanted to become a boxer. I made him go up and introduce himself to Bundrage who told him not to become a boxer, but stay in school. I get what he was doing- if my nephew had really wanted it, it wouldn't have mattered what Cornelius told him.
Floyd Mayweather was the best, though. At the Detroit leg of "The World Awaits" presser he stayed well after it was over, speaking to anyone who wanted to talk. Oscar had been long gone and he was still there hobnobbing with the fans and signing autographs.
I'd already interviewed Mary Jo Sanders and met her at her actual fight and she must have been in a zone or something. She's a few years older than me, but seemed like a shy little girl. She barely spoke. An hour later I saw her on my way to the men's room, warming up with her trainer. She was pounding the shit out of those punch pad things. I would =NOT= fook with her.
Marvin Hagler was a top guy. David Haye is also a top top bloke spent the night with him and Adam Booth getting drunk and talking about legendery fights and fighters.