00:07If you got the character, I'll teach you how to fight.
00:10I'll bring it out of you.
00:11If I can't bring it out of you, then I'm going to say,
00:13look, go get yourself a job or go to school and get yourself an education.
00:44Boxing has its own interpretation of your body
00:47and how much you can put on and how much you can take.
00:50Boxing became important to me when I was growing up.
00:52See, at that time, most of the training was at night,
00:55and most of the training locations were behind bars.
00:59They had little rooms over there, and they'd put up a ring,
01:01and they would give the patrons there that were drinking the opportunity
01:06to have some entertainment and watch the fighters train back there.
01:10And it was that kind of a thing.
01:11But I never watched the fighters train.
01:13I watched the managers. I watched the trainers.
01:16I watched what they did, how they operated, how they got their word across,
01:20how they got their message across to the fighter, what they wanted to have done.
01:24They took care of what the fighter ate.
01:26They took care of his cuts.
01:27They took care of giving him a rubdown, making sure he shows up,
01:31making sure he was in condition.
01:33They did everything.
01:35You're talking about Mickey and his Salome pictures hollering?
01:37I holler more than Mickey.
01:39I holler in there.
01:40That's my thing.
01:41What are you doing?
01:42You know?
01:42If I got to give him a shot in the head, I'll give him a shot in the head.
01:45And I'll tell him, hey, what are you doing out there?
01:46You're doing the wrong, wrong.
01:47You're not listening to George.
01:48Good job.
01:49Good job.
01:50Snap your punch.
01:52I'm a motivator more than anything.
01:54I'm a motivator.
01:55And I motivate them in the dressing room.
01:57And I motivate them in the ring.
02:01Let's get it.
02:03I go right back to the jab.
02:05We're up there fighting for three minutes.
02:07We're on the bottom of the ring.
02:09And we're talking over.
02:10Look at him.
02:10He's getting hit with this weight.
02:11He should be doing this here.
02:13He should be throwing the left hook.
02:14He should be throwing the right hand.
02:15And we're going back and forth.
02:16When we go up into that ring again for the next round, we're relating that to him.
02:21You want the second fight.
02:21That's the one you got to get off.
02:25And sometimes you can get away with telling the fighter what to do.
02:27And sometimes you'll listen.
02:28And sometimes you don't listen.
02:30You know?
02:37It was nine-day difference.
02:39Boxing then, boxing now.
02:42What they do now, you're going to a health club.
02:44You're going to a health club.
02:46And that's not the way to train.
02:53They improvised everything themselves to try and exercise.
02:57And to try and make themselves stronger.
02:58To make themselves better.
02:59They did all that in the old days.
03:02Remember one thing that's important.
03:04At that time, it was 15 rounds.
03:07Now they've cut it down to 12 rounds.
03:09At that time, they fought.
03:10And a lot of the fights were won and lost in those last few rounds.
03:13Referees had a different outlook on the boxing.
03:16As long as you could throw punches back, you stood in the ring.
03:24Fighters today, when they're done fighting, they've got no place to go.
03:28I don't care how much money they've made.
03:29They've got no place to go.
03:31Their career is over.
03:32Like I said, once you quit fighting, you've got to go to work.
03:35And that's what happens.
03:36So you better get yourself an education so you know what you're doing after you get done fighting.
03:41Stay right there.
03:42Stay right there.
03:44That's it.
03:45I'll do almost anything for my fighters.
03:47I mean, they've become part of my family.
03:49I think I got the most out of the fighters because as a surrogate father, I'm not only
03:56stationed myself there to tell them about boxing, I also told them about life.
04:01I lay them out sometimes.
04:02They get mad at me sometimes.
04:03But you know what?
04:04They can get mad all they want.
04:06But all I know is one thing.
04:07I'm telling them the truth.
04:09If they want to listen, they're going to listen and they're going to get the advantage.
04:13If they don't want to listen, they're on the run.
04:15If they don't want to listen, they're going to listen and they're going to listen.
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