Dealing with celebrity

Subject: Dealing with celebrity Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:45 am

Hi Bas

You are a pretty well known guy now and famous for your fighting ability, have you ever had to deal with papparazzi who would like nothing more than a photo of the "famous fighter" punching someone on the head in public.

Alan

Joined : 21 Aug 2007 Posts : 27

Hey Alan!

I am sure that they really want me to hit somebody, that will make for some great press. But being in the public eye now made me stop partying and drinking. So I stay away from those kind of events where that might happen. Not that I have ever been bad with drinking, other than being loud and happy, but it's better not to show myself like that, kids might see the pictures and that will not be a good example.

Now if somebody comes to me and hits me in the face, I have te defend myself, but I will make sure that there are plenty witnesses of course. If they just want to fight and didn't throw a punch yet, I am a good talker and can almost make them 100% come to their senses so we don't have to fight. Or I call one of the bouncers and let the guy get thrown out.

I had this problem in the beginning when I just arrived in the US, people looking for a fight. After I had that big fight with the 5 bouncers in Sweden who were saved by the police and even wrote that in the Swedish papers, I never had that problem anymore, I guess they knew now not to.

The problem has always been that I am really nice, and when people are drunk and you are nice to them they think your afraid, and when they think that they try to pick a fight. Than I just show that there is also an opposite side of "being nice" and because the difference is so extreme, people freak out which will stop future trouble makers from picking a fight with me.

That's it, I say this many times, fighting on the street is 99% of the time because there is alcohol involved, it's very sad, people who get aggressive when they drink shouldn't drink.

Godspeed and party on!

Bas