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.