Watched boom boom last night and I was a fan of Boris Becker before but now I simply worship him.
The way the documentary is put together is really totally brilliant it shows all the comedic facets of the tennis player ; especially off court.
- His life is a really quality soap opera with many characters starts with Romanian gangster-looking Ion Tiriac who might be straight as an arrow but has that look about him of a guy you would not want to mess around with. His first wife Barbara stupendously beautiful elegant classy and walked away with $14 million of his money and now lives the life of Riley/Rilette in Florida you can really feel that the love between these two will never go away; but then as a bit of R&R Boris in his infinite wisdom decided to go and fertilise a Russian waitress in a ; wait for this; Japanese restaurant in London named Nobu you really could not make this stuff up apparently he only had one session in a cupboard although he says it was not a cupboard but clearly it probably was a cupboard and she got in touch with him eight months later to say guess who's going to be a daddy again?? You could not script this stuff and get away with it...
- But when Boris is around totally feasible a bit like the Boris around the UK for awhile maybe there is something in the name Boris which gives you carte blanche to act as a clown and entertainer wherever you are.
- Then he took with a I think American woman who had more curves than Nurburgring Nordschleife and Interlagos combined
you do not get to see her interviewed in this documentary we do get to see a lot of Barbara who is extremely loquacious About her former husband and father of her children and gives insights practically as informative as what Boris can provide us with
There are other ancillary characters like Nick Bollettieri who sadly passed away recently and is credited at the end of the film
- The entire story of the two court cases the one in Germany where they did try to bang him up for 3 1/2 years and the one in the UK where he finally got given two years in 2022 served eight months and he's now back in Munich are to my way of seeing things a massive blot on the collective of the Western nations.
- This man provided us with so much joy for so long starting in 1985 going all the way into the 90s it seems very very petty to hassle him over what is really in today's money a petty amount petty amounts nothing like what the real gangsters of Finance steal from us year in year out .... and get away with
Already had the example of Björn Borg who could never transfer from being a tennis star to being a citizen with businesses he had no idea how to run; so now if you add Boris to this story you already have all the elements to educate those future champions and to make sure number one they do not go off the rails once they finished their careers in their mid20s who else finishes a career in their mid 20s nobody is who and also to ensure that their financial matters are dealt with by people who are not there to rip them off which is clearly what happened here the man clearly has a heart of gold would give you the shirt off his back and yes you can see that he has a twisted side : the coughing technique he developed when playing against John McEnroe tells us that although he does pretend to be quite the angel Boris is everything but and basically somebody who could come up with trickery to capsize John McEnroe could run a few circles around a few people any day of the week and did quite clearly ....
I would not be surprised if he still had millions stashed away somewhere that nobody knows about but maybe not; in any case and I will reiterate this I think society cannot apply the rules of the normal citizen onto somebody who left school at 15 to become a worldwide icon well away from the normal lives of normal citizens and then turn round later on in their 30s 50s and 60s and expect them to be just like you and I and Ronald Belcher three doors away from your abode ... not a serious way to deal with folks who entertained you until you cried and laughed ,,,, as i said earlier : petty
This Documentary excellently made humorous almost all the time the scenes connected with the Japanese restaurant and the images of food to express sexual desire were astounding highly highly recommended to lovers of the game
There is much footage and interviews with Björn Borg as well who also made a pigs dinner of his earnings once he left the circuit they really are a pair of dimwits when taken off the court and quite frankly they do have a propensity for spending way beyond their means I think maybe Boris has now understood that time will tell but he really was living like an Oil Sheik without the means to back it up I seem to remember that Björn Borg did the same as well anyway a superb treat for sports lovers and people who simply like a good story.
