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i saw martin mcguiness at the paul mccloskey euro title fight, gordon ramsey a few times and ronnie o'sullivan as well

When i went to the homecoming, half of Babecast was there

Also Chris Kamara and his 2 sons (he knew nowt about boxing)

.. and got a good shot with the lads from shameless too (gurners!)

I remember seeing Dennis Wise at Haye-Barrett. Joey Barton at the Quigley-Dodson fight. Also Brad Friedel at Khan-Prescott. I also saw Matthew Upson at Froch-Dirrell.

paul ince was at quigley v dodson and i remember seeing gearard and carragher at derry mathews v jon simpson

Roque Santa Cruz, Vincent Kompany, Paulo Da Silva, David Barnes, Joe Murray & Tyson Fury at Murray-Thaxton.

Sam Allardyce is quite often at the shows.

phil taylor was at hatton ndou, bill murray was at jaffas pro debut met a fair few ppl ringside like, the hatton homecoming was by far the best for meeting people

My best ever was ringside at the Lewis Botha fight.
Minny Driver was asked to move cos she was in my seat !
Also met Russell Crowe briefly before the Ricky / Zoo fight.
Other then that loads of Footballers, cast of Coronation Street, blah blah blah.
My worst moment was chatting away to a bloke who I then found out was Mark Morrison - Return of the Mac !

I sat next next to a woman with dark hair at a show once......dunno who she was tho.......thats about it.

I'm convinced I set next to Liam Neeson once at a Sam Storey fight. I could be wrong though.

I saw Jerry Springer at the Lewis/ Botha fight.
Saw Richard Branson at a Naz fight.
Met George Foreman at another Naz fight in London in think. (Top bloke)
High fived a hyper active Ian Wright on his way to his seat with three young bucks from West Ham. Those three kids were Joe Cole, Frank lampard and Rio ferdinand (what ever happened to those three?)


Met loads of boxers through writing for Britishboxing.net and others. I've found that boxers are in general are fantastic people to meet as they are usually welcoming, fun and honest. I guess they don't feel that they have to prove anything through social interactions thus making them chilled and open.

I've always found froch to have a zen like confidence and calmness that has always impressed me.

I've seen a guy that bears more than a passing resemblance to Butterbean at several shows over the years, most recently Dennis Hobson and Hayemaker promotions. Slimmer, but there is that certain something.

Mike Skinner of The Streets at York Hall re: Anthony Small vs Takaloo

twenty six wrote: Also met Russell Crowe briefly before the Ricky / Zoo fight.

Yep. When he was arrested for chucking a phone at a bell boy a couple of days later he was still wearing the same jacket (a promo one from the Jim Jeffries film)!

I saw Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos at MSG for Cotto-Mosley. He really has that hairstyle. He wasn't quite ringside, in fact I had
better seats than him!

My favourite (as I'm an Everton fan) was seeing Graham Stewart in BETTER SEATS THAT MICHAEL DOUGLAS for Calzaghe-Jones Jr.

Robbie Williams was on the Hatton bandwagon at the Castillo fight which had my girlfriend very excited.

chinny wrote:

twenty six wrote: Also met Russell Crowe briefly before the Ricky / Zoo fight.

Yep. When he was arrested for chucking a phone at a bell boy a couple of days later he was still wearing the same jacket (a promo one from the Jim Jeffries film)!

That was partly down to myself, Stevie Bell and my mate who smuggled 2 crates of Bud in the dressing room, Crowe was going for a smoke and I asked him for a photo. I noticed his coat and asked him about the Jim Braddock film..... He sent his security away and pulled up a camera crate in the dungeons of the MEN.

About 10 budweisers later we carried the flags into the ring

He was a great fella to talk to, nothing like what you hear. But the next morning yeah, he got nicked in NY.

Smigga wrote:That was partly down to myself, Stevie Bell and my mate who smuggled 2 crates of Bud in the dressing room, Crowe was going for a smoke and I asked him for a photo. I noticed his coat and asked him about the Jim Braddock film..... He sent his security away and pulled up a camera crate in the dungeons of the MEN.

About 10 budweisers later we carried the flags into the ring

He was a great fella to talk to, nothing like what you hear. But the next morning yeah, he got nicked in NY.

great story smigga, like it a lot!

post the pic!!!

ERIC GUY wrote:post the pic!!!

CAINY THE SKY CAMERAMAN LOST THE CAMERA!!
If he wasn't such a lovely fella I'd have flattened him.
Ed Robinson can vouch for it haha

mahatma wrote:i saw martin mcguiness at the paul mccloskey euro title fight, gordon ramsey a few times and ronnie o'sullivan as well

I sat next to hamed once at a pat barrett fight and got frank brunos autograph at the same fight.

housesecond wrote:I'm convinced I set next to Liam Neeson once at a Sam Storey fight. I could be wrong though.

Liam Neeson was definitely at the Lewis / Fortune fight in Dublin a few years back. He boxed as an amateur I think and starred in a fight film. It's strange the amount of actor / musician types who tried a bit of boxing, or claim to. From Sid James to Terrance Trent D'Arby, who I think was a Golden Gloves champion in New York or something. I met Lee Evans at a Lewis fight in the States and then again at the aba's - he was a decent amateur by all accounts, so was Norman Wisdom who he's often likened to.

I can vouch for Smigga, the pic that got away...

ed robinson wrote:

housesecond wrote:I'm convinced I set next to Liam Neeson once at a Sam Storey fight. I could be wrong though.

Liam Neeson was definitely at the Lewis / Fortune fight in Dublin a few years back. He boxed as an amateur I think and starred in a fight film. It's strange the amount of actor / musician types who tried a bit of boxing, or claim to. From Sid James to Terrance Trent D'Arby, who I think was a Golden Gloves champion in New York or something. I met Lee Evans at a Lewis fight in the States and then again at the aba's - he was a decent amateur by all accounts, so was Norman Wisdom who he's often likened to.

I can vouch for Smigga, the pic that got away...

Terrence trent D'arby got caught out years ago - his story abotu boxing in the golden gloves was utter bollix, they NY golden gloves board came out and said that he had never even competed in the competition.