what pro fighter have you met?

John H. Stracey, Earnie Shavers and my uncle was a pro.

I've met joe calzaghe and kevin mitchell.

Mike Tyson twice, Junior Jones, Juan LaPorte

Jose Luis Castillo-Met him on a fight his brother had here in a casino in Indio,CA Rafael Marquez-Went to the Marquez/VasquezI.Went up and shook his hand Erik Morales-Met him in the ^^^^^^^^^^^ gave me his autograph Julio Diaz-Know him personally Antonio Diaz-Know him personally Antonio Maragarito-Met him in the Marquez/Vasquez I Vic Darchynian- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Giovani Segura- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steve Quinones-Goes to my In-laws church

I've met plenty of fighters. Some of the more notable ones who I spoke with were Floyd Mayweather, Vitali Klitschko, and George Foreman.

Arreola. He's huge

i have met amir khan, michael jennings, Danny williams, matt skelton (commentated on one of my muay thai fights!), Carl Johanneson (Sparred with him!)

I used to train with Danny Williams when he was around 15 16 at Brixton boxing club above the Half Moon pub. Danny is a really nice guy. At the gym I sparred with Adrian Carew later Dodson just after he got Olympic Bronze medal. He is the only pro boxer I have met that I did not like. I caught him in sparring and he went all out mental on me and nearly KOd me. He was a piss taker taking real advantage of sparing partners well below his standard. I nearly got into a row with Rocky Kelly in a Fulham cafe. I was looking at him trying to place him and he got fed up with me staring at me and got pissed off ,stood up and confronted me. Luckily I just remembered his name and he went from agressive mode to smiling once he found he had been remembered and recognised. I think he was working as a labourer at the time. At the Peacock gym I got to know several of the fighters,Eric Teymour,Gary Delaney,and Akash Bhatia. I met John Conteh when caddying for a friend at 1st stage European Tour school at Chart Hills. The guy I was caddying for was playing with John's son James and Conteh was following the group.

Thats how you learn to fight hard. Most kids in the suburbs learn to box. The kids in the inner cities learn to fight. I used to train at predominately black gyms and i know what you mean by "getting tested". My trainer was black and everytime we'd walk into these Detroit gyms he would slam open the door and yell, "I gotta lil whiteboy here sez hes gonna kick all yo all asses.... who's first!" Thats the truth and I always found myself throwin' down. Rockin':boxing: i have some native american in me. i was also one of the only white guys there, it was on an indian Campus near were i live.

Thats good, 26 fights is a descent #. Enough to know that you can handle yourself fine. Is that Alabama you were from? Rockin':boxing: Yeah we only have like four gyms near where I live. They are about 1 million people in the metro area. Largest in Alabama. The city I live in is 80 percent black so I went to the all black gym in a bad section of town and was always getting tested.

From about 11 to 18. I got jumped by like six guys after busting this guys lip at a party. I got a detached retina and was beaten for like 45 minutes. I had to quit after going to the eye doctor and it ruined my vision. I only had about 26 fights but lots of smokers. Boxing isn't big where I live, so in the summer I would go to Mobile to box.

I sparred with Gary Stretch down at Galaxy around like 93 or 94. He was a really nice guy. Descent fighter too. Rockin':boxing: When I sparred with Frankie Randall and he avoided my face and worked on my body. He nailed me with a couple of hooks and it was bad. I was 15 or 16 at the time. It was after he lost to Rahilou and before fighting Carr and he talks really country. It was surreal sparring with a guy who beat Chavez. I know I have told this before but it was my only acheivement in life.

I always thought Stretch was an asshole. Did you smudge his make-up Rockin'?

I've met guys like Hagler, Benn, Mugabi, actually shook hands with them at the Peacock Gym. Benn in '88, Hagler and Mugabi in about '89. I watched Michael Watson train there once for one of his Commonwealth title defences and Gerald McClellan train there once for the Benn fight. Met Mugabi again in '93 when he beat up Gary Stretch in sparring that summer. Frank Bruno and Naseem Hamed came to my gym once in '95, Joe Calzaghe, and actually sparred with guys like Glenn Catley, Dean Francis, Ryan Rhodes (at Neville Brown's gym in Burton), Neville Brown, Carl Froch. I'm personal friends with Dean Francis (still spar with him at his dad's gym in Basingstoke, he could of beaten Calzaghe if not for his shoulder injury) and Belly (Stevie Bell) from the Phoenix camp (ie Hatton's gym).

Being a boxer has been great for me because of the opportunities it sometimes gives me to meet people... Muhammad Ali (shadowboxed with him), Archie Moore (he was a mentor of mine since I was 15), Willie Pep (we live near each other, gave him a ride to the airport once), ... Ken Norton, Foreman, McClellan (when we were amateurs), Bones Adams when he was 13, Cornelius Boza Edwards (he helped me work a corner once in Las Vegas back in 2002, Michael and Leon Spinks, Gene Fullmer, Carmen Basilio (he hit me in the balls once when were kind of slap boxing, true story), Aaron Pryor 9many times including once in 1989 when we were sharing a dressing room in Rochester), andmany others. NOTHING compares to meeting Aliand even people that aren't big fans of his will often tell you that... there is a certain (powerful) presense about him...crazy stuff..if you met him u likely know what I'm talking about.... I love the old pics of guys like Archie Moore and Joe Louis when they were watching a young guy spar . I always wonder what they were thinking one pic I have I think it is Moore and Tyson together ,just amazing to see them in the same place and time .

Being a boxer has been great for me because of the opportunities it sometimes gives me to meet people... Muhammad Ali (shadowboxed with him), Archie Moore (he was a mentor of mine since I was 15), Willie Pep (we live near each other, gave him a ride to the airport once), ... Ken Norton, Foreman, McClellan (when we were amateurs), Bones Adams when he was 13, Cornelius Boza Edwards (he helped me work a corner once in Las Vegas back in 2002, Michael and Leon Spinks, Gene Fullmer, Carmen Basilio (he hit me in the balls once when were kind of slap boxing, true story), Aaron Pryor 9many times including once in 1989 when we were sharing a dressing room in Rochester), andmany others. NOTHING compares to meeting Aliand even people that aren't big fans of his will often tell you that... there is a certain (powerful) presense about him...crazy stuff..if you met him u likely know what I'm talking about.... i have not met Ali but i can imagine what it would be like

Being a boxer has been great for me because of the opportunities it sometimes gives me to meet people... Muhammad Ali (shadowboxed with him), Archie Moore (he was a mentor of mine since I was 15), Willie Pep (we live near each other, gave him a ride to the airport once), ... Ken Norton, Foreman, McClellan (when we were amateurs), Bones Adams when he was 13, Cornelius Boza Edwards (he helped me work a corner once in Las Vegas back in 2002, Michael and Leon Spinks, Gene Fullmer, Carmen Basilio (he hit me in the balls once when were kind of slap boxing, true story), Aaron Pryor 9many times including once in 1989 when we were sharing a dressing room in Rochester), andmany others. NOTHING compares to meeting Aliand even people that aren't big fans of his will often tell you that... there is a certain (powerful) presense about him...crazy stuff..if you met him u likely know what I'm talking about....

Hector Camacho and Junior (my relatives), RJJ, Miguel Cotto, Peter Manfredo, and Jean Marc Mormeck for realz? do you know when jr is gonna step up his game and do something with his carrear? and what's up with sr?

Hector Camacho and Junior (my relatives), RJJ, Miguel Cotto, Peter Manfredo, and Jean Marc Mormeck

Most people don't believe it but Mike Tyson nearly knocked me out. About 20 years ago I was in Las Vegas and I bumped into him in the lobby of Caesar's Palace.....literally! I was walking and not paying any attention to where I was going, largely because I was starring at some good looking woman. Apparently Tyson must have been starring at the same woman and we collided. I fell on my ass. Tyson is much larger than me and it felt like I had walked into a cement wall. That guy's chest is just as hard as it looks. Took me a few seconds to get my bearings, then I looked up at him and said: "What the fuck did you hit me for?" As he was walking away, he laughed and said: "I didn't need to." Who lies on here. Of course we believe you. Sounds funny. I heard shaking his hand is like shaking a statues hand.