Yeah in a old musclemag he said that in his late teens that there was a tough Irish dude in the neighborhood. This fella carried a knife.
Mike and is friend had an encounter with him one night on the streets. Mike said that his friend smashed an unopened 40oz liquor bottle over the Irish dude's head.
The bottle smashed. And the guy just dropped.
Mike said that he ran from the scene. He never knew the extent of the damages... But he said that the guy could've been dead.
I know he did some boxing, but did he ever laud that as some kind of evidence that he was a "tough guy"?
Just curious. Things I've heard about the man were all over the map. Mike Mentzer once wrote a piece in MD about the '96 NOC, and he criticized Mazz for showing up looking a lot smaller than usual. Mentzer speculated that Mazz overcompensated from his '93 Olympia appearance, where he looked "bloated beyond belief" according to Mr. Heavy Duty.
Mazz took such offense to the criticism that, one day, he spotted the elder Mike and apparently shouted all across Gold's, challenging Mentzer to a fight in the parking lot.
GRHS and all, but given his additional problems with someone was stoned out and mellow as Cormier, he sounded like a typical, kinda dim-bulbed meathead with a short fuse -- much closer to a Craiggers than a Vince Taylor.
There were also stories about him being a dick going so far as misc.fitness.weights, but I can't speak to the veracity of those. Maybe Rob Schuh (sp?) could, but I rather doubt he's here :/
