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hello freak [ __ ] did you have amateur fights yeah I fought in the amateurs and dude there was a time when I thought you know and I think that's why I can you know deal with the fighters and I understand you know like dealing with the ultimate fighter MH there was a [ __ ] time in a day when there was the only [ __ ] thing I cared about was boxing that's why I literally walked out of that place cuz I loved it so much that that's all I [ __ ] wanted to do the problem is you go out there and you start [ __ ] you know that that's what I wanted to do for a living and then the reality starts to s in and I'll never forget I mean I I've told the story before but I was in the gym one day and there was this dude who was a local fighter I don't say his name you would probably [ __ ] know him if I said his name I guarantee you you know him because he was famous in the Boston area you know like a local guy and he came in one day and he was like he was in his early 30s he was like 31 or 32 and uh he was [ __ ] up you know he was Punchy he [ __ ] moping around kind of throwing [ __ ] and I I remember the day that I looked at him I said [ __ ] what if that happens to me and then the minute you [ __ ] start thinking like that you're you're you're you're not the real deal you're not no matter how much you think you wanted or you think you do it was the day I realized that I wasn't and I was [ __ ] like wow so then you start going how the [ __ ] am I going to make a living doing this and me and this dude Peter Welsh from Boston started uh you know teaching people how to box basically you know businessman and stuff cuz the the the business model wasn't if for instance like martial arts if you want to take a martial arts class there [ __ ] 50 martial arts studios anywhere in any City anywhere in the world and there has been since I was a kid right any mhm lack of martial arts schools around your place when you were growing up no but if you want to box but if you want to box you got to go and fight you got to go get your [ __ ] head punched in yeah you know what I mean you especially you know the places in Boston you got the Somerville Boxing Club you had the [ __ ] place down at the mcdonut down in South Boston and and and and some PL the petronelli down in uh
yeah in in places like that and you went in and they would [ __ ] you'd get your dick knock loose right and if you came back maybe they'd [ __ ] work with you well even guys that liked you would do that like I got I got trained by Joe Lake and that's that's what he did with me he just stuck me in with guys who knew how to box what they all do [ __ ] beat out of that's what they all do yeah you that's they do it quickly too like right right from the beginning find out how much you enjoy doing this do you really want to do this I wasting my time here exactly right I'm going to teach you how to throw some punches and then we're going to put your head gear on let me put your [ __ ] Vaseline in your face get in there kid show me what you got the first time I ever went in the Box they they had me do [ __ ] ring circles you know what those are right where you go laterally around the ring uhhuh [ __ ] coming in every day they have ring circles ring circles ring circles ring circles and I was like what the [ __ ] I paid my Dey I paid my [ __ ] eight bucks you know what I mean I [ __ ] got mad when Dan I said I came here to learn how to [ __ ] box man I've been running around in circles for [ __ ] weeks and he's like oh you want to learn how to box right yeah [ __ ] get like [ __ ] gear you up man love you up they throw you in there and they beat the [ __ ] out of you yeah [ __ ] Dro me 50 times with body shots punching my [ __ ] head in the worst of the body shots when you first start you start taking some body shots from a guy who knows how to throw them and uh you know your [ __ ] lips are bleeding your nose is bleeding you're [ __ ] up you get out you're completely morally destroyed you know what I mean cuz boxing is never or sparring is never what guys think it's going to be you know you watch too many [ __ ] movies you go in there and you think you're going to spar and you get [ __ ] kicked out of you but then you know I went home that night and I remember laying in bed thinking the whole night [ __ ] I got my ass whoop that suck this that and I went back to the gym the next day and that was it then they start working with you very few people actually want to fight they just want to kick someone's ass true they don't understand that that kind kick your ass
too like you this is not going to be an even exchange and if you're not willing to go to war if you're not willing to take like big shots and be in pain and push through you're never going to do this this is you you you have to figure out somewhere along the line whether or not you're willing to take punishment whether or not you can take punishment some guys can't so that was what our what our business was based on you know Peter I yeah you could come you could come into the real gym where real Fighters trained and you learned how to box just like so like white collar box yeah so it was like you learn how to box but you didn't get your ass kicked every day but some guys you know start train for so long and get to the level where they want to start sparring but you you rarely ever have white guys that start sparring and want to do it a [ __ ] again cuz you know you like you said you get that first ass whooping and uh and a lot of times what happens is it breaks into breaks out into fights you know and uh we we had we used to we used to bring the inner city kids in too you know we had this idea we were going to bring in inner city kids and you know in southy back then it was still very segregated so we were going to bring in blacks and Hispanics and all these other kids and bring them together and you know we're going to do all the [ __ ] we used to bring these kids in man and we start training them and stuff and then as soon as guys would start sparring you know how many [ __ ] situations we had where guys would come back in with bats like there'd be a bad sparring deal come back with bats or they'd come back with their brothers or some kind of just every [ __ ] day there was so that whole you know let's bring in the inner city kids and [ __ ] try to work it didn't go over well yeah that's playing day that experiment didn't didn't work too well that's a lot of work it's interesting to see the uh the attitude you know that used to exist back then in the boxing gyms and now that people are we're seeing this evolution in mix martial arts where the beginning we saw a lot of like gym Wars like that would be like a really normal occurrence in gyms where guys would just beat the [ __ ] out of each other you hear about Fighters getting knocked out in the gym
left and right left and right but now I think people are starting to realize like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa there's no [ __ ] benefit in this like what's going on here like we're going to we're looking at a gigantic multi multi multi-million doll business and this is how we're treating our Commodities and our prospects where we're throwing them at each other and letting them blast each other and dudes are getting Punchy way before their time we we both know gyms where guys they get chinny way too quick and you go well what how's this guy like this guy had an iron chin just three years ago well he's taking [ __ ] gym Wars he's going through gym Wars on a regular basis y that was shoot the box that was the deal at shoot the box and Shogun himself said like we realized you know after doing that for a while we can't do that anymore we I I that's how it was in boxing too though when I when I was involved in boxing some of the best fights I ever saw were in the gym oh yeah you know oh hell yeah one day one day I saw uh uh Livingstone Bramble and Roger Mayweather oh [ __ ] go at it at a [ __ ] gym in Vegas yeah another time wow at one of the gyms because because we all worked together I worked with Mayweather I worked with Nick one kick um Floyd when Floyd was first coming I mean we we all work together in these gyms you know and uh one time there was this dude he was a heavyweight his name was Tracy and him and Roger Mayweather [ __ ] got into it he was Tracy was a young heavyweight 24 year old kid heavyweight and Roger was [ __ ] 147 yeah in his 40s Jesus Roger said like what you say [ __ ] [ __ ] get into it blah back and forth go oh [ __ ] here we go and they got in the [ __ ] ring and started fighting man and uh yeah they started [ __ ] fighting and at the end of the round when the bell went off Tracy tried to stop and Roger [ __ ] lit him up and he goes no rounds [ __ ] no rounds W so they just kept fighting straight [ __ ] through until [ __ ] Tracy quit oh my God Roger [ __ ] whooped his ass and he [ __ ] quit his 40s yeah and then and then when he quit Roger hit him another eight nine times after he [ __ ] quit and he and he was basically like don't ever a [ __ ] mouth off to me in this gym a 147b 40y old buter the Black Mamba you know a lot of people
don't know Roger you know a lot of people everybody knows Floyd but Roger his uncle in his time he was a bad [ __ ] he had a piston right hand y he had a nasty jab and he would [ __ ] slam that right hand in he was a bad dude for many a year I've seen some crazy [ __ ] happen in [ __ ] boxing gyms man crazy [ __ ] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]