I've
uploaded a few items from this holiday before, but there are a few
treasures worth sharing from the weekend in The Big Apple. On the
plane over there we were sat near some guy from Emmerdale who's name
escapes me and my holiday group. This bloke- heavy-set and
dual-heritage with a shaved head I think- was with a group of his
mates, flying over for this fight: Lennox Lewis vs Michael Grant.
On
the flight over there, him and his mates got hugely drunk, spilled
their drinks everywhere, performed crap Ali G impressions shouting
'ride da punani' at the top of their voices and got bollocked off the
stewardesses.
A
few days later, in Manhattan one evening, we wandered past Madison
Square Gardens. The area was quiet, although posters for the Lewis
Grant fight were draped huge over the building. I
asked the doorman what was happening tonight.
“They're
fighting,” he said.
“This
fight?” I asked, like a total moron.
“Yes.”
I
pushed my luck. “Can I take a look?”
“No.”
Well.
Hardly the blag of the century. Great holiday, though.
Also
on the boxing card, Arturo Gatti vs
Eric Jakubowski.
8
years later, Gatti was dead.
The
Lewis Grant fight:
The
Gatti Jakubowski fight:
No comments:
Post a Comment