Mike Tyson- Great guy. I met at as he was leaving a restaurant in Brooklyn Heights in the afternoon. I spoke with him for about 10 min & he was real cool & down to earth. He shook my hand & damn near crushed it.
Buddy McGuirt- Was pretty cool
Howard Davis- Was funny & cool. Met him at my grandmothers place in NYC & knew his son.
Lennox Lewis- Met him becaue he was dating a friend of a friend. I even think he has a kid from her now & he seemed alright.
Mike McCallum- From what I remember he seemed nice because I was pretty young when I met him. Got his autograph too.
Jake The Snake Rodriguez- Met him through my brothers who trained at the gym he used to train at in Brentwood, NY. Seemed cool.
Marvin Hagler (at a Boston Breakers game when I was a little kid,Remember the Breakers Ice?)Winky Wright,Jeff Lacy,Zab Judah,David Santos,Robbie Peden and Derek Samuels are the only ones I can think of off hand and to be honest as strange as it may sound I thought Zab Judah was cool as ****.
Barry Morrison, good guy
Ricky Hatton,Got his autograph then when i said wat do u think about a fight with floyd n he jst said i dnt wanna talk about floyd this was in 2004
Met Royce Gracie in the airport and was the coolest guy ive ever met
Fres Oquendo Met him at Barney Ross Boxing tribute at UIC in Chicago. He was smaller than I thought he would be....But a cool guy who talked with me for a few minutes.
Angel Manfredy Met him at a open boxing workout in Chicago. He was tiny...and had scar tissue all over his face...instead of signing his name he wrote down some bible passage and shook my hand...cool guy though...hard to believe he could knock me out...(i'm about 5'8" and 145lbs)
Acelino Freitas Cool guy who didn't say anything...shook my hand, signed my glove and poster and thats about it.
Andrei Arlovski Interviewed him a while back and he is really cool. Watched him workout at Jabb gym in Chicago and talked to him after...he about crushed my hand when he shook it. He was very, very polite.
Scott Harrison and Ricky Hatton both drinking in the pub! (at different times!)
Ken Buchanan and Nigel Benn and my local Nightclub, Benn DJing and Buchanan Handing out the prize for best fighter of the night at the charity boxing (which my best mate 1)
And Eamon Magee at the Hatton vs Tszyu fight(never spoke to him tho!)
In AC, I saw Holyfiled before his fight with Byrd. Also there Ran into Buffer and Lewis.
I saw Tyson on 5th avenue walking into a Versace boutique
Saw Maskaev a number of times in Brooklyn.
Only person I had a one-on-one conversation that lasted for about a min was Maskaev. This was right after he KOed Rahman. I congratulated him on the win and talked about his plans with Peter. He did not sound too confident.
Holyfield, I just took a picture with and wished him luck.
Tyson was surrounded by bodyguards and as soon as they walked in.. they kind of locked down the store for him. This was about 6-7 years ago when Tyson was still Tyson
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