Buddy of mine paid a ton of money for seats close to the ring at the last Pacquaio fight. Was worried about getting ripped off but the seller offered to walk them to the ticket person to make sure they got in. Everything was fine, tickets scanned, arena said they were legit. Then about 15 minutes before the main event other people with the same tickets came for the spot and my buddies were booted to the nosebleeds. Arena wouldn't do anything to refund the tickets. Yet another reason I'd rather watch it on TV.
Saw Big George Foreman in probably about his 8th or 9th pro fight on his way up at the Garden against Irish Jack O'Halloran in the early 70's. Foreman knocked him out early, we were about in the 7th row and in a bout after the Foreman fight O'Halloran came back dressed in street clothes seated in the front row to view the final fight. My brother recognized O'Halloran & ponted him out to me saying 'I think that's O'Halloran over there but it's pretty hard to recognize him when he isn't horizontal. A few months later Foreman was at it again
at Madison Square Garden against Gregorio Peralta it was Foreman's first real test a good fight Foreman got the decision.
We knew the New Jersey Boxing Commissioner at the time Abe Green and he always gave us free passes to the fights, great memories.
