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Im a bit torn on this one, I feel for Bonsante, being the single dad/working part-time while fighting. But I'm Irish....so I'll be hoping for a knockout for Duddy, and a full time job for Bonsante at Wal-Mart. May the best man win.
maybe wish for Bonsante to get a fork lift drivers license or something and become warehouse manager lol
Funny you should say that. He actually is a warehouse manager, for K-Mart. He works 50 hours a week. He's a single dad. He still finds time to train, and he's Italian. I'd love to see him K that Irishman TFO.

At first I didn't like this guy after that bitch-move fight switcheroo he pulled on the Contender, but my girlfriend at the time pointed out to me that if I was solely responsible for the well being of two children, my moral compass might be pointed in a slightly different direction. Agreed.
Glad to see another Bonsante fan on here. Actually he was my favourite contender on the show for that very reason. All of the other Contenders, Ishe, Manfredo, Brinkley etc were young guns with something to prove and were vocal in deciding who was going to fight whom etc.

Bonsante was about 34 years old, his career was virtually over and he was fighting purely to get as far in the competition as possible so as to get a nice couple paydays to secure his family. So he basically decided that popularity and pride were less important than providing for his kids, a decision of which I supported him 110%

When he took on Brent Cooper me and my brother were cheering Bonsante to the rafters, not because we didn't like Cooper, he seemed a nice guy, but becuase Bonsante was fighting for his family. He put his kid's well being before his own popularity and I liked that, even though hardly anybody else I've spoken to about the show saw it that way at all.

Most people think he was treacherous and two faced but they've got it wrong. He didn't go in there to make friends, he went in there to win a million dollars. Why the F*** should he care what Ishe Smith or Jesse Brinkley felt about him not wanting to fight Jimmy Lange?

In my opinion he was probably the most honest person on the show because he never claimed to be somebody he wasn't. Guys like Brinkley, Ishe and Gilbert were the real two faced guys on the show.

Thats just my two cents worth anyway, and for being a Bonsante fan too