Tony Baltazar v Robin blake

At the time of Tony’s fight with Robin Blake Bob Arum was still base out of New York City. His man in Las Vegas was Mel Greb. My dealings for the fight were with Greb who was a hard guy to deal with.

We made the fight over the phone, but I had to go to Vegas to sign the contract. Mel wanted me to fly out of Ontario Airport, on their dime, of course, sign the contract and fly right back home. I told him no, that I would drive on Saturday, two weeks before the fight. I told him to get me a room at the Showboat and that I wanted $500 to play the slots, he barked, but I got what I wanted.

Saturday morning two weeks before the fight I drove to Vegas on Connie’s new 1984 Z28 Camaro, made the trip in about four hours. When I got to Vegas there was a room waiting for me at the Showboat, after checking in I called Mel, told him I was at the Showboat, he told me that he would meet me at the coffee shop within an hour.

We met and Mel hands me the contract to sign, well, I am no lawyer, but I could see that everything we had agreed on was not on the contract. The money for the fight was okay, but the 4 rooms for five days, five round-trip tickets from Ontario Airport, meals for five people for five days, 5k for training expenses, Frankie’s fight on the card were not on the contract, when I told Mel that I wanted all that on the contract, he told me to sign the contract and that everything would be taken care off, I refuse to sign the contract until he added all that we had agreed upon, when he did and he handed me a check for 5k and the $500 cash for me to play with I signed the contract.

Saturday before the fight I drove Tony, Frankie, Bobby and Herman Montes, who we had hired as a sparring partner for Tony to Ontario Airport. I paid for the tickets. After the fights when we got paid I was still out the five hundred for the plane tickets, I hit Bob Arum, he told me to see Mel Greb about it. I told Mel that I still had $500 coming for the plane tickets. He bought out a roll of hundred dollar bills, gave me four, I told him it was five, not four that I had coming, “take the four” Mel said to me, I said to Mel “Mel, either you give me five or I’ll take all your money from you” Mel was a little guy..LOL! He gave me the five.