I always liked boxing. So i found a job mopping the floor and cleanning toilets of a boxing gym. It wasnt about the money, it was about being around boxing, and i was.
So one afternoon, july 22nd 1984, guess who enters the gym i took dirty toilet paper to the blue dumpster in front of the gym; Mike Tyson.
He was coming for a quick sparring session, so he started knocking out everybody that entered the ring. I asked the boss for a break and put my gloves on, stepping in the ring with the greatest boxer ever.
Let me tell you,, you are nothing next to mike. I hit him with a lucky jab, and he knocked me down with a right hook. When i whoke up, 45 minutes later, Mike came to me and said: Cool.
It meant: good, but not ready, it meant: look me up when you are".