Hello Sami how are you, what have you become since you stopped organizing boxing fights? I am very well. Also, because the boxing world, especially Thai boxing, disappointed me a bit….
For me, the final was supposed to be Las Vegas. The very first event you organized was in in Paris, at the Aquaboulevard,you remember? Yes, of course. It was thanks to a nice meeting that everything started.
They wanted to know more, they invited me to dinner. During the dinner, Charles Bietry asked me to organize an American boxing show with my fight live on TV. But no, they were sober because Charles Bietry called me back to set up the project for an American boxing world championship. So I did this event at the Aquaboulevard where I fought at the same time.
I thought it would be just for one event with Canal Plus TV. But a few days after the show, Charles Bietry called me and invited me to Monaco. He asked me to do it again, to do another event. We blew the ratings on Canal Plus channel! I made two fights, the first at the Aquaboulevard and the second at the Halle Carpentier. I fought an opponent who was not very tough.
But with the organization of the event I had not slept all night. I did 12 rounds and it was very hard physically…. Then, as I did not know the job, it was Louis and Michel Acaries, and Charles Bietry who taught me the job of promoter.
