Here's my Jeff Fenech story.
I grew up in London but was always a big Fenech fan. Really wanted to see him against McGuigan (another fighter I loved). McGuigan was a bigger fighter but Fenech's ferocity & workrate were incredible. I'd lean towards Jeff.
Anyway, back in 2006 I was living in Fresno, California. A mate of mine from Melbourne was working at a casino near Santa Barbara called Chumash. Vic Darchinyan was defending his title there & Fenech was his trainer/manager. After the fight Fenech gets my mate & says "Come on, lets go out on the piss" so they head off to this cowboy bar (it's California but it's real cowboy/country folk). Fenech soon gets pissed up & starts insulting the Rednecks, eventually calling one of the blokes wife a "Bushpig". My mate drags him out before they get shot & they hit another couple of bars with similar results.
Next day when I wake up, I have a voicemail from one of my Boxing heroes calling me an "unwashed Pommie ****" and a "****ing bogan" & "I love youse".
It was one of the happiest days of my life The man is a legend. Why ain't there any boxers around like him these days....
I grew up in London but was always a big Fenech fan. Really wanted to see him against McGuigan (another fighter I loved). McGuigan was a bigger fighter but Fenech's ferocity & workrate were incredible. I'd lean towards Jeff.
Anyway, back in 2006 I was living in Fresno, California. A mate of mine from Melbourne was working at a casino near Santa Barbara called Chumash. Vic Darchinyan was defending his title there & Fenech was his trainer/manager. After the fight Fenech gets my mate & says "Come on, lets go out on the piss" so they head off to this cowboy bar (it's California but it's real cowboy/country folk). Fenech soon gets pissed up & starts insulting the Rednecks, eventually calling one of the blokes wife a "Bushpig". My mate drags him out before they get shot & they hit another couple of bars with similar results.
Next day when I wake up, I have a voicemail from one of my Boxing heroes calling me an "unwashed Pommie ****" and a "****ing bogan" & "I love youse".
It was one of the happiest days of my life The man is a legend. Why ain't there any boxers around like him these days....
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