Standing Eight episode 3 - Featuring John Ibrahim

We talk to John Ibrahim about his success in the entertainment industry, his friendship with Jeff Fenech and some of the characters he has met over the years!

[@mrgozz2780]

The best interview I have ever seen....in my whole 56 years ....I haven’t been so entertained ......two good old Aussie blokes that new how to live life ....I used to go to,the same school,as Jeff --Enmore Boys High ....also trained boxing for a short time at the Newtown Police Boys Club ....but unfortunately we were never friends ....

[@mrgozz2780]

@Boost , you sound like a real legend ....sitting behind a keyboard...knocking people's comments ...for the record...at 56 I'm retired and living the dream ...

[@willkirkoff1333]

That. Was. Awesome! I finished John's book about a week ago and I only came across this podcast today so you can imagine my excitement when it popped up on my screen.

[@arifekutlu5891]

finished his book today.. so good!!

[@MUZ97]

This is a quality podcast! Good vibes & Good chats.. Love the setup and the background! Props boys 💯

[@voodooskullman5137]

Well done lads ! This podcast is amongst the easiest and most enjoyable on you tube .

[@warwick4763]

Good old Enmore Boys High Legend and the best night clubs manager John in Australia 🇦🇺 both from the streets to the top of the pile through hard work and total dedication and loyalty great interview and no BS

[@smokeybirdman]

Grew up in Merrylands Top bloke Johnny, regards to Fadi and best luck to Sam and Mick. Hawksy 👍

[@yangsta9]

Finding it interesting that john choose to do this podcast over his cousin podcast

[@robt8318]

His cousin lol why would he reduce himself to that tripe

[@KharnageTheCalais]

I don't think john would be able to deal with Moudi's antics, he's to confrontational andnjohn seems to be more laid back, but who knows it could still happen if he decides to get back into the podcasts

[@autoartperformance3410]

John doesn’t like Uc brigante he will end up bitch slapping him

[@noxvalhalla1369]

@@autoartperformance3410 oh! 🤣

[@kostadean2839]

Haha moudi tajjouuur

[@brendanb4900]

Jeff is a absolute champion

[@NuriiG]

DCs was best club in Sydney! Ahh the memories. Great podcast guys👌

[@KevinWheatley-sv9by]

Good times hey brother

[@deanritchie7384]

Chur to the bros for the podcast and chur to jeff (a legend), 😊 gotta go get back to work, ghosting time has run out🙌 laters🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

[@simondale4189]

Excellent really enjoyed listening to the podcast. Thanks

[@bott84]

That was awesome!

[@alexanderfricska406]

Really enjoyed that.Only read about John in the papers and saw him on TV which all made him look bad.But he seems a cheeky but intelligent and focused business person.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Fascinating life story. Fascinating guy.

[@Nauticunt]

2 absolute legends in their own right. 👌

[@fancyface1972]

Ahhhhh DCM and Tunnel ....The best years of my life, great memories 🙌🏽😊

[@herogebrial]

I know

[@autoartperformance3410]

I took soo many peoples missus’s at Dcm those were the days...

[@Jay-en7bw]

@@autoartperformance3410 fuck you a soldier bro

[@georgethomas5318]

I bet you had a good time there , probably in toilets half the time lol

[@fancyface1972]

@@georgethomas5318 Lol!! Noooo I didn't. Did you see the womens toilets at DC's.... it was a mission going up the stairs and the line was always sooo long and only a few cubicles!! Lol 😂

[@underworldringside]

His a sharp character.

[@dannymilne4681]

Couple of staunch blokes. Don't know who the other 2 are. Good interview guy's.

[@frankygers]

I stumbled onto this. No idea who this lad is but really enjoyed this. Best of luck to you all.

[@tfinde]

watch underbelly season 3 on youtube! ideally watch the other seasons first but he is season 3 and each season story is different. just some gangster name cross over and feds ect

[@sinerntous6433]

Big boys talk. Great stuff.

[@jon50334]

Great show I'm not 1 for podcasts but enjoyed

[@marv3337]

Johns humility is next level 🙏

[@jaypalmer7358]

John Ibrahim seems down to earth and kicking it around the pool table Western suburbs lad

[@fenderrabbit1]

Good to watch.. 👌

[@anthonyreed480]

I read King of the X expecting to judge Ibrahim, but I get the fascination the papers have now. There's something about the bloke, you can't help but like him lol. His stories are great. The Adidas tracksuits in Vegas fkn cracked me up lol

[@simo-dv5xk]

Many would disgress

[@desiredrapfilms]

Same bro the book was awesome

[@drilltime1237]

@@simo-dv5xk only white dogs would

[@kostadean2839]

Them tunnel and trade mark nights..

[@desiredrapfilms]

I just read johns book! Unbelievable sounds like a stand up loyal bloke

[@TheartistformerlyknownasMrLuke]

Very enjoyable thanks guys

[@jrh8393]

Johnny is still a good looking individual, intellectual and charming. I love this podcast! :)

[@libatalklieb5793]

You need specsavers

[@MrSwaggOn]

@@libatalklieb5793 Thats all plastic!

[@automandan3066]

Awesome podcast . Subbed .

[@lukepatto4366]

I read his book years ago. From memory, it was interesting and quite authentic but I wondered if some of it was frabricated.

[@cocacola2you]

I have the feeling John is the smartest out all of the cousins

[@caramello7460]

He is, the only reason any of his cousins or family are where they are is because of him, he was the brains behind literally everything

[@peg60606]

Something like this would have been great on the ABCs Australian Story on a Monday night, except for the wowsers who'd be complaining. The Cross was an historical piece of history and now it's over.

[@soaneson9614]

Jeff u r Australian icon,

[@deanritchie7384]

Chuuur john, i also only knew you through the media rubbish that has floated around the web, although the statements and shit have been pretty captivating, im mature enough to keep an open mind, so yeah just a thankyou for your appearance bro, and you appear to be a ambitious human with a big heart and focused on succeeding, something we all should be atleast thinking about, kool az bro and goodluck for the future✌

[@shanecraig619]

Absolutely awesome stuff fellas 🙌😎🙌Jeff and John are real as they get 🤜😉🤛

[@carolbrady658]

Honestly this was crap.. wouldn't you prefer to hear about John kings Kross stories, George Freeman etc... He told us some crap about lebos going to America... What a waste of an interview

[@jos1226]

​@@carolbrady658 honestly.. you sound like a bitter and twisted troll, or you must have crossed paths this guy and he never noticed you get over it stalker 😂🤣

[@pinkbox.casino841]

Absolute gentleman John is

[@bradhutchins9605]

John Ibrahim you are a funny guy would like to have a beer with one day

[@ishtarbabylon4869]

Met John a few time back in the day..a true gentleman

[@kylieaxiak7625]

🌚💌

[@davidjenkins8980]

John = Hard working man...Very well liked...

[@bobbushca797]

The conversation builds and gets into a funny open conversation with selected stories that could be a movie in itself ,really enjoyed it

[@marcusevans3824]

I read his book. Good read. I thought he saw I show pony but a bit of a hard fucka but most importantly SMART. Good on him and good luck

[@Tuilaione]

Thank you Aussie Lebanese Legends. Jeff Fennech and John Ibrahim.

[@cjrantfifa]

Jeff is Maltese

[@Tuilaione]

@@cjrantfifa the Maltese and Lebanese were the backbone of Australia. Didnt know that thanks. So that means all the Maltese went mining... Good people. The Maltese

[@adzo348]

Backbone of Australia how

[@eurekaelement833]

ANZACS??? LEST WE FORGET!!

[@ishtarbabylon4869]

Jeff is Maltese dude

[@grahamwood2130]

Jeff fenech. What a legend. Jeff was robbed of being the first aussie gold medalist

[@michaelmacdonald9639]

Good vibes yeah

[@AD-2020]

I'm a little surprised George Freeman's name wasn't brought up when talking about people to look up to for him

[@adambarnes3730]

AD 2020 he owned a few night clubs with George’s son. David and Adam, I’d say they had a falling out of some sorts too not mention George.

[@Dylan-yb7nl]

💯💯💯

[@zyecarriage3543]

Load of the dance I like that won.

[@debwilson1436]

When Ibrahim grew up there was kickboxing just noMMA or legal cage fighting

[@ZootZinBootZ]

I worked in Blake's pharmacy at the front the king's Cross police station site on Darlinghurst road / Maclay street around 02- to 2014 , I was the night shift shop bitch & some times the Love Machine pill chick😁 ..I helped Tania , Sam , Animal and all the beautiful disheveled people of the Neon cathedral of nightlife. I partied with them to , the tunnel was top stuff.empire , Bourbon , peppermint rhino , Ruby's , the fish bowl , Bada Bing was destined to be a pinnacle of excess .. nobody could tell anyone about being to extra , that didn't exist then , people have to earn maturity through trial and error & custodial sentence, bankruptcy and sometimes death. People do not seek out a resurrection of anything in the cross - the good things don't actually die , they bolt on and lay down a patina that still gets hit & chimes out out essence of sins - That time we shared in king's Cross , before the lock out laws & one punch deaths , is time that stays in our shared memory like it is the unattainable dream the unanointed to the old cross can't design in their minds anything like we used to see...it is a memory that can't be retrieve , it stays when you wake up from it , if you were privileged enough to have been in that scene - it's it's own magic of aspirations of socialising that podcasts like this revive our experiences and feelings of the glittering mile so many people have their respective reminiscent memories of ... These are bits of history we all get value out of.. Thank you for this .

[@ardiabuzarin9830]

Hailll john

[@mansamusa2030]

KING CROSS WAS THE SURFERS OF SYDNEY!!!

[@cortion]

DCM and Hunter bar 😭 best times!!

[@TrundlesLad]

Do a podcast with Big Alby, Jeff. Oh yeah...

[@caldogz90]

John looks 20 years old

[@joeblow9927]

He had a diet of teen pussy for 30 years

[@potentpudz9311]

Faces of death was the vhs tape lol

[@benjamincounter9111]

Bro imagine watching that for the first time stoned with mike Tyson

[@NoFearGC]

@@benjamincounter9111😂💀

[@HopliteWarlord]

How did a little man make it so big??

[@richardharrow4023]

John is a legitimate businessman, just because he has friends and family that are gangsters , it doesnt mean his a drug dealer. His the smart one out of the bunch

[@markgotch1116]

Jeff lets be honest there’s been no world champions in Australia since Lionel rose ?????

[@kvh7741]

Ep1

[@incognito_bitch8513]

Is it just me or john looks like the V for vandetta mask ?

[@princevegeta9763]

He actually does wtf🤣🤣🤣

[@bipolarlife7405]

Ok cut cut cut , John stop hitting the fucking pool table ! plzzzzzzzzzz

[@mr.sunnyg5510]

the man himself... fucking tell ya, the only bloke from Syd i like to have a beer with...

[@Dencorp..1]

We don't want to drink with u anyway bud

[@mr.sunnyg5510]

@@Dencorp..1 righto champ? Wasn't talking about you, whoever you are anyway 😅

[@jamessouthon651]

John was very lucky he knew george freeman and lenny they taught him how to make money and back winners

[@gustus9]

you can tell John is gangster, just the way he sits and talks..

[@jon50334]

Gosh they picked perfect actor for King of the Cross looks a lot like john( Casey from home and away)

[@leonhuinga2987]

Whos here because of the last king of the cross?

[@bmwfanschannel3412]

Haha Sam was not scared at all of Jeff doesn’t matter that he’s a boxer. Sam is a real G.

[@bally.up211r.i.b5]

Fuck u and Sam

[@bmwfanschannel3412]

Bally.up211 R.i.B go and say that to his face internet gangster

[@bally.up211r.i.b5]

@@bmwfanschannel3412 🤣🤣 if only you knew mate, he no real G mate he a junky

[@autoartperformance3410]

Bally.up211 R.i.B in sure you would wash his balls in prison

[@bally.up211r.i.b5]

@@autoartperformance3410 Oh mate stop it boxing Inc, just stop lol

[@michaelmacdonald9639]

Or his brotherz

[@bullterror5]

Say HI to Vanessa for me 😉

[@johndalton2163]

Clash of the EGOS 👊😬

[@keish7199]

😂❤

[@bipolarlife7405]

He tells a good yarn tho

[@tommagain5460]

Cleveland

[@bullterror5]

Go Dannanite on the Phoenician & pick them off from Behind...

[@donnytaylor3645]

I only knew john from the underbelly series.. Somehow I always had this feeling he was DIFFERENT than the others that he actually was MR LEGIT. .

[@brainumb6078]

I was playing cards at crown, Jeff was there same table, some random Leb guy got bad beat by Jeff, the leb stood up and went off his head said he would smash Jeff/ lol obviously not knowing who he was Jeff calmly called security over and they took the guy away, it was his lucky day Jeff would of fucked his life

[@_DYNAMITE_313]

Jeff got smashed at Brighton by 1 of the lebos in greenacre. He got bottle broken on his head. It was on news. If you haven't seen him,he is like dried up and small. Semi amature mid weighter would drop him. Age matters.

[@Johnny_Thunder]

That was 4 thugs. His house was shot up shortly after that also and Jeff called for a truce. Rumours it was over drugs.

[@brainumb6078]

@@_DYNAMITE_313 yer this was over ten years ago too, but yer age will get us all

[@TomNevin]

John you need to give your brother Sammy more cash. He made you rich. He is stuck in your homeland, Lebanon. You rode his coattails for a long time, and now it is time to pay the piper.

[@Looking-great]

Hows the watch business going Fenech?

[@paulsz6194]

Livewire time flies..

[@matl6236]

Really nice of John to hook Jeff up, who's clearly coked off his face in this one. Erratic rapid speech, saying a lot, but not much of anything. Well done Jeff. The people's champ, coke addict,

[@NoFearGC]

Yooo tf idk Jeff was a coke head. Hasn’t he always been a hypo type of guy

[@jmx318]

How is this guy gangsta?

[@CrazyWhiteVanDriver]

John ibrahim the police informant

[@DISKHUNT]

The video was face's of death It got banned

[@carolbrady658]

It was all faked lol

[@DISKHUNT]

@@carolbrady658 bs!

[@leonardmastronardi1337]

Leave Johnny alone

[@gonzalofernandez1511]

Good on you guys👍 very enjoyable to watch and listen to ✌️ from Art by Gonzo

[@jwa745]

Great podcast , I never can understand why the police show so much interest in him

[@jac4423]

What do you mean you don't understand? His brothers have been shot, one of his brothers has been arrested for a huge drug and tobacco importation and he grew up in an Era being friends with some big name criminals. I think he is doing good things, but you can not say you dont understand why they are targeting him.

[@allanbroad3381]

@@jac4423 I don't think this guy actually knows who John is haha

[@jac4423]

@@allanbroad3381 I figured he did, i am not saying john is involved in illegal activities. To say you don't know why the police show so much interest in him is stupid because of what his brothers are involved in and have been caught and convicted for.

[@allanbroad3381]

@@jac4423 maybe he does know who John is and is being sarcastic with that comment and if so yeah it is a stupid comment lol but when I first read it I generally thought he sounded like he didn't know who John is 😂

[@wazzasometings5469]

Let’s be real everyone was scared of Tongan Sam he was the real gangster…. No one was afraid of the abrihims they’re 4ft tall😂😂😂

[@kylieaxiak7625]

🌚✋

[@roberthvistendahl8635]

could have ruined my life with H, guess action to prevent closeness is best ay

[@amarniclarke4643]

Get little Johnny a jesters hat for how many people got robbed from there gaming rooms from there pubs an Jeffry hasn't ganged hell sit next to any who's got a dollar of loyalty .

[@paulmahy]

Drank there as a 17 yo in the Cross in 82, what a buzz! Best wishes Mr. I.

[@user-pn3zw9er6i]

Fb you on Monday for the giveaway of your new book to read on the day you are in your room at night to get a free yuyyyyy and get your own copy for your new books and book collection and you will get your

[@tommagain5460]

Alpha

[@tobyargall8202]

Underbelly. Thats what killed the Cross.

[@autoartperformance3410]

What sort of a podcast is this drinking coles mineral waster and sitting on a pool table. At least buy some cool ridge and cover up those cables mate.

[@xXxSPADExXx0]

Cool ridge lmao

[@shaneybo]

Hopefully your podcast will be better .

[@paulsz6194]

Cool ridge, what about Schweppes sparkling mineral water?

[@5IMON5AY5]

And JEF FENiC! 😂

[@darrenlacy3975]

Dog and gronk is what johnny is ! lying is what he is best at !

[@kenoaf6896]

How is he a dog? Heaps of ppl have claimed his a snitch but never heard the back story

[@calabrianndrangheta9037]

@@kenoaf6896 Cops or media never go after him, They gave him his own show to idolise him, He's definitely got something going on under the table...

[@dearestbrotherfrank]

What's up with his plastic head?

[@6BRENO6]

Gonna miss your brother John ??😂

[@darrenlacy3975]

good riddance

[@gabin682000]

Now Kids, this is what brain damage looks and sounds like

[@carolbrady658]

ASK HIM INTERESTING STUFF... who honestly cares about his trip with lebos to America 😢😢 You stuffed up.. boring

[@JulianStev54444]

Agreed boring shit