What is your first memory of boxing?
Richard Pierson: ?My very first memory of boxing is being ten-years-old and my uncle Daniel Lewis brought two pairs of boxing gloves in my house and took the top mattress off me and my brother?s bunkbed set and made us get inside the frame of it using the bottom bed as a canvas and the frame acting as a ring with ropes. By the way, my brother won, leaving me with a bloody nose and hot tears coming out my eyes.?
Do you ever have dreams in your sleep involving boxing?
Richard Pierson: ?[Laughs] any true fighter has dreams of fighting, that?s why I don?t share a bed with nobody, I woke up punching the night before I fought Jimmy Campbell. I woke up becuase I punched the headboard in my hotel room!?
Who was the best fighter you ever shared a ring with?
Richard Pierson: ?The best skilled fighter I ever faced ? it was Jamal (The Truth) Davis, hands down, that is the only fight I can say I was worried in. He was a small, smart, strong, skillful Philly boy. If I didn?t adjust to his pressure and boxing ability and end up cutting and stopping him it would have maybe been a draw because he beat me in the first and third rounds ? or he might have won that fight. On undercards I shared the ring with Cotto, Margarito or Pavlik, etc. who were the main events. I would have to say I never shared the ring with the best.?
