“I believe so, because Michael got to confirm things. I write in the book, for full transparency, at this stage in life Michael isn’t a man of many words. I had to push him to talk, the way a trainer would with a fighter to get everything out of him. I said, ‘Come on, Michael, you’ve got to talk to me. I’ve got to have something.’ Then he would put a few sentences together. But personality-wise, he’s so laid back and he doesn’t have an ego. To him, boxing was a job that kept him busy. He appreciated people saying how great he was, but he didn’t have an ego to say, ‘I’m the best. I’m this, or I’m that.’ If you said, ‘Michael, I think Roy Jones [would have been] too good for you,’ he wouldn’t have cared. He just doesn’t.”
