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Yeah, you're right Dave, it was Floyd Mayweather, who is considered pound for pound probably the best or one of the best fighters in the world. Ricky Hatton fought him really good. But Pacquiao took him out I think in the third round with a punch. You know like there's Britain in the UK has a lot of good boxing fighters but I guess the Brits are too formal and they're not like Americans like in Pittsburgh where I grew up it was a blue collar city and there was only three jobs in Pittsburgh that you could get a job at. You worked in the coal mines, you worked in the steel mill and you worked on bridges. Pittsburgh is a city of bridges, there's three rivers there and so the companies that made bridges had headquarters in Pittsburgh. So you either worked in a coal mine or you worked in the mill and you did bridges. And it was a total blue collar city in the 40s and 50s when I grew up there. Young people like myself and my other my brothers and sisters didn't want to work in those three areas so we tried to only way to get out is to move out of the city which all three of us did. One went to Utah, one stayed in Pittsburgh for a while and I moved all around the country but it was amazing when I was growing up how you had to learn to box. I mean everybody boxed, I mean actually in the ring and in the gym and in people's houses we used to box in the cellar and so it was part of growing up. But you had to stay open like you got an education, you had the education on the streets with your hands like Ricky Hatton, you also had education in school and one of my brothers got a doctor's degree, the other got a masters and I got a BS in computer science. And all my friends, one of my friends grew up to be a really famous doctor. He was a knee doctor and he was 6'6 and all the sports teams would hire him to repair knees and shoulders. He grew up to be a famous doctor and other guys in my neighborhood grew up to be in real estate, lawyers and just amazing but it's amazing when you start out in the rough area yet you refine yourself and you change your profession based on the new economy. But you always admire guys like Ricky Hatton. Back to you Dave.