BoxRec

Robin Reid(quite a few times)
John Conteh
Michael Jones

jonp wrote:Hmm most random ones for me

Roberto Duran at a Strip club in telford

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That's gotta be the best so far!

jonp wrote:

Roberto Duran at a Strip club in telford

Awesome. I never realised that Telford had been so blessed by a visit from Hands of Stone!

jonp wrote:
Steve collins dancing like a madman at the shard end social club(serious lol)

Another absolute belter

Mickey Duff at York railway station

Michael Hunter a couple times at the Victoria ground, where Hartlepool play.

Danny Williams outside the York Hall 3 year ago. He said hello, he wasn't boxing, he had a box of bakewell tarts under his arm.

There were loads of boxers at the Hunter Pickering fight. Carl Johanneson, James Hare, Carl Baker, none of whom were actually fighting.

I also shared my birthday cake off my lass with Choi Tsvenpureev a few years ago. He liked it.

randomly saw Freddie Roach & Amir Khan going for a ruby...then 10 mins later Robin Reid going in the pub next door

I once saw Henry Wharton in a nightclub in York..............he had just turned pro and I was introduced to him by a lad we both knew. Things were going greta until, because of the noise in the club, we both simultaneously bent forward to hear each others voices and I caught him flush on the forehead with my own head.............................I thought "sh1t..............this is gonna be painful", but he just laughed it off. Sound guy.

johnty1888 wrote:I once saw Henry Wharton in a nightclub in York............

Toffs, Silks or Ziggies?

frank bruno , i had a saturday job when i was 14 on a fruit and veg stall in nottingham, he came and got a banana , which i didnt charge him for , and my boss went mad and made me pay for it , nobhead . i think he was doing a panto or something at the time.

Yeah Bruno in a health spa about 3-4 years ago, just me and him in the changing room. He said alright and so did I and that was it. I figured saying 'don't you just look in great shape' in the changing room would have come across all wrong

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

Carlos-Wigan wrote:I also remember having a long chat with Frank Grant on the phone just before he stopped Herol Graham for the British title - he seemed a nice chap also.

Carlos, I'd love to know how this was random...were you cold calling about double glazing or something?

"You know, there's a boxer called Frank Grant...what? Never!"

Actually, it was when he was boxing for 'champs camp' when he was with Phil Martin in Moss Side and I wanted tickets for a show in Hulme, Manchester - this was back in 1991 or thereabouts - so I rung up one of the numbers from a payphone (this was before the mobile phone) that was advertised in boxing news and it was Frank Grant who answered 'Hello, I am Frank Grant - I'm boxing on the bill!' and he just talked my ears off for about half an hour - he asked me to come and see him on the night but I had to make an early dash from Manchester! Seemed a really nice guy on the phone and was chuffed to bits that I knew something about his career.

I was and am a huge Bomber Graham fan but was chuffed when Frank Grant took the title off him.

TerribleTerry wrote:

johnty1888 wrote:I once saw Henry Wharton in a nightclub in York............

Toffs, Silks or Ziggies?

I think it was Toffs.......it was the one near the fire station

johnty1888 wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote:

johnty1888 wrote:I once saw Henry Wharton in a nightclub in York............

Toffs, Silks or Ziggies?

I think it was Toffs.......it was the one near the fire station

Nice one! I thought I would ask because I always found it crazy that as a city York was limited to 3 nightclubs - I bet there are more these days though.. Havent been back for years.

Randomly, Bobbie Vanzie stood one in front of me and my family in a que for a kids dolphin show!!
Derek Gainer in a lift in Atlantic city, couldn't believe how tall he was for a featherweight.

Not randomly as I knew where he would be, but when Tyson came to London in Jan & June 2000 I was on him like a harbour shark! I was at the Grosvenor House Hotel every day for about two weeks.

I met on both visits. When he departed the Grosvenor in June to go to Scotland, I remember running as the car left & the traffic lights went to Red so they had to stop! Mike leaned aout the window & said "You again man, you don't give up, I like to see that!"

Mind you, I will never forget when he landed at Heathrow in January 2000 & checked out at Terminal five! Fans in front, behind & to the side of him just went at him & Mike looked proper apprehensive!

TerribleTerry wrote:

jonp wrote:

Roberto Duran at a Strip club in telford

Awesome. I never realised that Telford had been so blessed by a visit from Hands of Stone!

jonp wrote:
Steve collins dancing like a madman at the shard end social club(serious lol)

Another absolute belter

Duran was going none stop into the private booth two girls at a time and a bottle of bud in each hand and not once did he get bored of endless requests for autographs the man is a legend.

As for Collins i know why you will never see him on one of those celeb dancing programs lol

TerribleTerry wrote:

johnty1888 wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote: Toffs, Silks or Ziggies?

I think it was Toffs.......it was the one near the fire station

Nice one! I thought I would ask because I always found it crazy that as a city York was limited to 3 nightclubs - I bet there are more these days though.. Havent been back for years.

The one next to the fire station is The Gallery,formerly known as Silks,Terry.

damianhucker1 wrote:frank bruno , i had a saturday job when i was 14 on a fruit and veg stall in nottingham, he came and got a banana , which i didnt charge him for

Roars Like Me wrote:Yeah Bruno in a health spa about 3-4 years ago, just me and him in the changing room. He said alright and so did I and that was it. I figured saying 'don't you just look in great shape' in the changing room would have come across all wrong

had they detained u for mental health reasons too? D

mickey1975 wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote:

johnty1888 wrote:
I think it was Toffs.......it was the one near the fire station

Nice one! I thought I would ask because I always found it crazy that as a city York was limited to 3 nightclubs - I bet there are more these days though.. Havent been back for years.

The one next to the fire station is The Gallery,formerly known as Silks,Terry.

Thats the puppy Mickey!
It must be ten years or more since I was there..

The only other place to run club nights was The Art Centre back in my day.

Have they added to the 3 night clubs in recent years Mickey?

nige benn in waitrose in beckenham, I stared he glared and i ran away.

Also work wise Bunny sterling randomly called me about an investment in nigerian crude....think he was in the process of getting ripped off. though not 100% on that.

But Bunny was impressed that i knew who he was.

nicky piper took all my chips off me in a poker tournament in a cardiff casino

llamalew wrote:nicky piper took all my chips off me in a poker tournament in a cardiff casino

Had he not eaten beforehand?

Met Micky Ward in a 7-11 a few years ago (he lives the next town over from me). Nice guy, friendly. Peter McNeely came into my old office to use the phone about 10 years ago. He was not looking good but was a pleasant enough fellow.

MacTavish wrote:

llamalew wrote:nicky piper took all my chips off me in a poker tournament in a cardiff casino

Had he not eaten beforehand?

That's what you get for going up against 'The World's Most Intelligent Man'.