One normally doesn’t associate the North Yorkshire city of Hull with Hollywood A-list glamour, but British media is alight with the news that a business graduate from the city blagged his way ringside for last Saturday’s mega-fight and ended up meeting a horde of boxing figures and celebrities including the fighters themselves.
Steve Carruthers, who had managed to obtain a $2000 ticket for the fight, told the Hull Daily Mail how after following actor Mark Wahlberg down to ringside – and pretending to be a part of Leonardo Di Caprio’s entourage, he spent the evening swigging champagne in the VIP bar with fighters and famous faces, taking selfies with Christian Bale, Donald Trump and Michael Keaton.
After the bell, the suited and booted chancer waited among the throng of media who congregated outside the fighter’s dressing rooms.
After getting a picture with Filipino legend Pacquiao, the MGM security team noticed he wasn’t accredited as he approached Floyd for a picture.
According to the Mail, Mayweather said “I got him” posed for the picture and invited the star-struck Brit to the post-fight presser!
He said;
“Manny was the first one to come out and I took a photo with him. He was really nice considering he’d just lost the biggest fight of his career.”
“Nobody was asking who I was so I just stuck around to wait for Floyd to come out.”
“I asked him for an autograph and a photo as I walked along with him. He said it was okay to walk along with him but he to do an interview right then.”
“When the MGM security said I had no accreditation on he said “don’t worry, it’s fine – I got you”
“He then said I could come to the press conference so the MGM guy had to leave it. He was really, really nice.”
Definitely a story to tell the Grand-kids!
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