Interview with David Pacquette

First things first, many thanks to Dave for taking time out of his training to speak with us.  I contemplated whether or not to redo the interview.  My camera doesn’t have an external mic so the sound is incredibly faint.  I’m looking for new camera as you read this.

I should have known better then to try to do the interview in such a noisy place.I highly recommend that you listen to the interview with headphones, you should be able to work out what David is saying.  He’s rather soft spoken and it’s difficult at times to hear what he’s saying.  I was thinking about transcribing but as you’ll see the interview runs 20+ min.  For those of you who can’t access veoh (gusnark) you can download the interview here.

If any of you are around this weekend, he’ll be fighting Cedric Muller this Sunday evening at York Hall in Bethnal Green.

Thanks guys for all your questions, hopefully next time around I’ll have a new camera (with external mic).

Questions for David Pacquette

Oh yeah… I’m going to be doing an interview with Dave Pacquette this weekend. If you rely on me to come up with the questions it isn’t going to be that interesting.

So if you you’ve got any question add them in the comments.

Yellow Card from Dave

So while we’re on the subject of David Pacquette… last night I had the opportunity to meet him. I told him I thought it was good fight, but he didn’t have much to say about it.

Most of the people at the gym know that he’s involved in The Contender Asia, but haven’t seen any of the show.

My impression from the other fighters is they know he wasn’t happy with his performance but haven’t seen his fight.

He was teaching, rather yelling at an earlier class. He was really pushing them hard. There was a point where he was giving them a pep talk …” You need to see what you’re made of! Push yourself, this is the last round and your down on points!” I couldn’t help think that his mind still wasn’t on that last fight. Read more